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MORTON MEMORIAL 



A HISTORY OF THE 



STEVENS INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY 



WITH 
BIOGRAPHIES OF THE 



TRUSTEES, FACULTY, AND ALUMNI 

AND A RECORD OF THE ACHIEVEMENTS 
OF THE 

STEVENS FAMILY OF ENGINEERS 



EDITED BY 

FRANKLIN DE RONDE FURMAN, M.E. 

PROFESSOR OF MECHANICAL DRAWING AND DESIGNING 

WITH AN INTRODUCTION BY 

ALEXANDER CROMBIE HUMPHREYS, M.E., Sc.D., LL.D. 

PRESIDENT OF STEVENS INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY 




HOBOKEN, N. J. 

STEVENS INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY 

1905 



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LIBRARY ot JONGfttSS 
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Copyright, 1905, by 

The Alumni Association of the Stevens Institute 

OF Technology 



TO THE MEMORY OF 

HENRY MORTON, Ph.D., Sc.D., LL.D. 

FIRST PRESIDENT OF STEVENS INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY 
187O-I902 



RESOLUTIONS ADOPTED BY THE BOARD OF TRUSTEES OF STEVENS 
INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY 

" With profound sorrow the Trustees record the death of Henry Morton, the first 
and only President of the Stevens Institute of Technology. 

" It is not possible to convey our sense of the great loss which we have sustained in 
his death. The full measure of his devotion to the Institute cannot be expressed in words. 

" His gifts of money for its welfare were generous, but the crowning gift was him- 
self, — heart, mind, and strength. Its fame was his highest ambition ; its success his greatest 
happiness in life; it stands a monument to his memory, more enduring than 'marble or the 
gilded monuments of princes.' He brought it up from a doubtful experiment in education to 
an assured position of renown at home and abroad. On its roll of honor his name stands 
first, and on his students he has left the impress of his faithful industry in the pursuit of 
truth, his conscientious devotion to high scientific ideals and his sincere personal interest in 
their success. 

" The sons of Stevens will rise up and call him blessed." 

S. B. DOD, 
President of the Board of Trustees. 
HoBOKEN, N. J., May 12, 1902. 



Preface 



In connection with the exercises of the Twenty-fifth Anniversary of the 
Stevens Institute of Technology, held in February, 1897, President Morton 
planned a souvenir book to include a full and complete account of the banquet and 
of the exhibition of the work of the Alumni, a very brief history of the Institute, 
biographies of the Trustees and Faculty, detailed accounts of the professional 
work of the Stevens Graduates, and numerous extracts from original documents 
concerning the pioneer engineering work of John, Robert L., and Edwin A. 
Stevens. 

The purpose and plan of the book having been established, a publication 
committee, consisting of Professor Adam Riesenberger, M.E., 'yd, Mr. Johannes 
H. Cuntz, M.E., '87, and Mr. Rudolph V. Rose, M.E., '97, the latter then an un- 
dergraduate, was appointed in 1896 to assist President Morton. The efforts of 
the committee were directed chiefly to obtaining the records of the Alumni ; and 
this work, upon the graduation of Mr. Rose a few months later, and the absence of 
Mr. Cuntz, fell almost entirely upon Professor Riesenberger. He continued until 
the spring of 1898, when he had completed the records of the technical work of all 
those who had been graduated with the earlier classes down to and including the 
Class of 1896. 

Meanwhile, President Morton was giving his time to the collection of data 
for the other portions of the book as outlined above. He was also attending to 
the preparation of many illustrations, personally employing prominent artists, 
either to produce original pictures, or to touch up photographs from which half- 
tone plates were subsequently made. The money spent in this way amounted to 
more than $1,500. The collection of data regarding the engineering achievements 
of the Stevens family was by far the most voluminous part of the work undertaken 
by President Morton. 

During the fall of 1900 President Morton called upon the writer to assist 
him, and the work of compiling and arranging these data, as presented in Part II 
of this book, was begun. Upon the completion of this task in 190 1, the technical 
records of the graduates down to and including the Class of 1896 were supple- 



X THE STEVENS INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY 

mented by bringing them to date; and notices of those graduating since 1896 were 
prepared. In March, 1902, this work was completed, and President Morton, who 
had continued to devote himself to various features of the book, felt for the first 
time that it had reached the standard he originally set. But it was too late for 
him to see the book completed. His death occurred on the 9th of May. 

Among the papers left by President Morton were found numerous docu- 
ments relating to the book, and considerable time was expended in reviewing these 
and in selecting and adding desirable material thus found. This work was com- 
pleted in January, 1903. 

During the years that the book had been in preparation, six classes had 
been graduated, and the number of the Alumni had increased 43 per cent. The 
records of these new men added largely to the size of the book, and this, together 
with the accumulated material for other portions of the work, carried it far be- 
yond the scope of the original plan. Furthermore, much of the material which had 
been prepared several years before had lost a considerable portion of its interest. 
It therefore became impracticable to issue the book under the old plan as a Twen- 
ty-fifth Anniversary Volume. 

New plans were considered, and in March, 1903, it was decided by the Ex- 
ecutive Committee of the Alumni Association to give the book its present character 
as a memorial to the late Dr. Morton, commemorating the initial period of the In- 
stitute's history, during which he served as its President. Much more space in 
the new book was allotted to the history of the Institute, and less to the Twenty- 
fifth Anniversar)^ celebration, complete accounts of which are recorded in the 
" Stevens Institute Indicator " for April, 1897. The sections relating to the en- 
gineering work of the Stevens family and the biographies of the Trustees and 
Faculty remain essentially as originally planned. The professional records of the 
Alumni were largely condensed where detailed descriptions of a technical nature 
appeared, and were generally rewritten and rearranged in conformity with the new 
plan; the space thus saved being devoted to portraits and the presentation of 
such facts as are usually found in biographies. As soon as the revision of the data 
for the Alumni records was completed, the new manuscripts were sent for correc- 
tion and approval to the graduates or to the relatives of those deceased; accom- 
panying each manuscript was a circular letter setting forth the new plan and the 
reasons for its adoption. In all, 987 letters covering the classes from the begin- 
ning (1871) to 1902 inclusive, were sent out. An unexpectedly large number of 
favorable and generous replies were promptly received from 75 per cent of these, 



PREFACE xi 

about 80 per cent of whom, in turn, subscribed for one or more copies of the book. 
Such a response is, we believe, unsurpassed in the annals of an educational institu- 
tion, and is highly gratifying as an indication of the interest which the Alumni of 
Stevens Institute take in their Alma Mater. 

Since the earlier forms of this book went to press, several notable additions 
and changes pertaining to the Institute's history have been made. Chief among 
these is the purchase by the Institute, through the liberal co-operation of Mrs. Lewis 
H. Hyde (formerly Mrs. John Stevens), of four and a half acres from the estate 
known as Castle Point. This property includes all that part extending southward 
from a continuation of Seventh Street to the old Institute grounds, and runs east- 
ward to the high bank along the Hudson River. These newly acquired grounds, 
with a rising elevation, command a splendid view of New York city and harbor, 
and afford an unrivalled location for a campus. 

The construction of the Morton Laboratory of Chemistry (illustrated on 
page 17 from an advance drawing) will be begun early in 1905. It will be located, 
however, on the plot of ground at the corner of River and Sixth Streets, directly 
in front of the residence of the late Dr. Morton, instead of on the main block of 
land as represented in the picture. This new location, in addition to being most 
appropriate, was made necessary by the recent rapid growth of the Institute and 
the consequent provision for possible future extension of the Carnegie Laboratory 
of Engineering. 

President Humphreys, in addition to his endowment, in 1902, of a scholar- 
ship in memory of his son Harold (as mentioned on page 17 of this book), has 
further contributed $5,000 to create a scholarship dedicated to the memory of his 
younger son, Crombie Humphreys. 

Among the customs of the Institute we welcome the advent of the tradi- 
tional cap and gown, worn, for the first time, at the last commencement exercises, 
by the faculty, guests, and members of the graduating class. The regulation cos- 
tume fitting the Stevens degree of Mechanical Engineer consists of the Bachelor's 
gown and hood, and the cap. The hood is lined with silk in the Stevens colors of 
red and gray, and trimmed with orange velvet. This latter color was adopted by 
Stevens to symbolize the profession of Engineering, which heretofore had not been 
represented by a distinguishing color in the academic costume. Those of the 
alumni who are members of college faculties are entitled to substitute the Master's 
for the Bachelor's gown and hood. 

In presenting the biographical sketches of the Alumni every effort has been 



xii THE STEVENS INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY 

made 'to give each one uniform treatment along the following lines: Name in 
full ; portrait ; place and date of birth ; parents' names ; brief note of ancestry 
and of any circumstances of general interest in early life and education; record of 
professional work, including list of positions held with titles and dates, and also 
a brief description of the nature of the employment, or of any special or excep- 
tional work accomplished, with illustrations of the same; names and dates of 
patents taken out, with short descriptions ; titles and dates of books published, of 
papers presented to engineering or prominent societies, and of articles contributed 
to technical or other journals ; names of engineering societies, clubs, fraternities, 
commissions, etc., in which membership is or has been held ; and, if married, the 
date of the marriage, the wife's name, and the names of the children. 

Every effort has been made to have the information in this book accurate 
and up to date, and it is believed that it is as nearly so as is possible in a work of 
this kind. After the biographies had been set up in type, proof-sheets were sent 
out to every alumnus before going to press, for the verification of names, dates, 
etc., and for the addition of such facts as were necessary to complete each sketch. 
In this connection the editor wishes to emphasize the fact that the spellings of 
christian names, which in some cases may be found to be at variance with stand- 
ard methods, have been carefully verified. No pains have been spared in securing 
data and in verifying doubtful points in general. Of special value to the writer in 
compiling this volume has been the experience obtained some years ago as Corre- 
sponding Secretary of the Alumni Association, and later as editor of the " Stevens 
Institute Indicator." 

In concluding this preface the writer desires to thank those who, by their 
contributions or their counsel, have assisted in the preparation of this book. 
Among these should be mentioned President Alexander C. Humphreys, M.E., 
Sc.D., LL.D. ; Professor Adam Riesenberger, M.E. ; Professor Edward Wall, 
A.M.; Mr. Harry W. Johnson, M.E.; Mr. Elford E. Treffry; Mr. Wihiam A. 
Macy, secretary of the Hoboken Land & Improvement Company ; and Col. George 
Harvey, president of Harper & Brothers. 

FRANKLIN De RONDE FURMAN. 

Hoboken, N. J., January, 1905. 



Introduction 

In complying- with the request of the Editor to write an Introduction to this 
historical sketch of the Stevens Institute of Technology and its people I wish 
first to emphasize the peculiar appropriateness of offering this volume as a me- 
morial of the man who unsparingly devoted thirty years of his life to the Insti- 
tute's service. 

The Editor has explained that, at first, this work was intended to com- 
memorate the Institute's Twenty-fifth Anniversary. The original conception was a 
modest one, but under Dr. Morton's enthusiastic direction and generous support 
the scheme was so broadened and enriched that the great amount of detail work 
caused the date of publication to be postponed from year to year. This delay, 
however, was found to be a blessing in disguise, when, shortly after Dr. Morton's 
untimely death, it was realized that the project over which he had so lovingly lab- 
ored could be developed into a record of the thirty years of his presidency. Our 
gratitude is due to the Editor for suggesting this change and carrying the work to 
so successful an issue. 

Dr. Morton particularly desired that the book, as originally outlined, should 
show that not only " Stevens " men, but our country and the world at large, rest 
under a great debt to our founder and his father and brother. The record of the 
Stevens family of engineers which follows in Part II, — made up of an article by 
T. C. Martin, E.E., prepared at the instance of Dr. Morton; addresses at the 
Twenty-fifth Anniversary Banquet, made by Abram S. Hewitt, Admiral Melville, 
and Dr. Watkins; a brief biographical record of the Stevens family; and a classi- 
fied record of the engineering work of John, Robert L., and Edwin A. Stevens, — 
should serve Dr. Morton's long-cherished purpose of paying a more adequate trib- 
ute to the pioneer engineering achievements of the members of this remarkable 
family. The members of the engineering profession know in an indefinite way, 
largely from fragmentary articles that have appeared from time to time, and from 
special and often obscure references in technical literature, that John Stevens and 
his two sons did much for engineering science ; let them read this record and learn 
more fully of the truth. 



xiv THE STEVENS INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY 

Pioneers in railroading, steamboat engineering, and modern naval construc- 
tion; inventors of the T-rail, the railroad spike, the " sleeper " method of track-con- 
struction, and elongated shells for cannon; designers of the present form of fer- 
ry boats and ferry slips, and of the yacht " Maria," the fastest yacht of her day and 
victor over the " America " ; and the fathers of a great class of minor though im- 
portant utilities exemplified in the pilot-house and the two-horse dumping-wagon, 
— their inventions and improvements are now benefiting thousands who accept 
these benefits without knowledge of or gratitude to their benefactors. 

It was eminently appropriate that Stevens Institute should have been 
founded through the liberality of an active member of this Family of Engineers, 
and that its buildings should be erected upon ground where some of their epoch- 
making experiments were conducted. This alone should be an inspiration, con- 
tinually renewed, to those charged with the responsibility of maintaining the good 
name of " Stevens." 

Edwin A. Stevens died in 1868, and by his will left a block of land in Ho- 
boken, a building-fund and an endowment-fund, and directed that his executors 
should erect on this land " an institution of learning for the benefit of the youth 
residing from time to time in the State of New Jersey." The work of the Stevens 
Institute began in 1870 under the guidance of Mrs. E. A. Stevens, William Ship- 
pen, and S. Bayard Dod, who constituted the first Board of Trustees. 

Upon Mr. Dod chiefly devolved the duty of determining what the character 
of the new institution should be. After full consideration and against the advice of 
educators and practical men, it was decided to organize a school of Mechanical 
Engineering, a line in which Edwin A. Stevens, his father, and his brother, had so 
efficiently labored. There had already been established schools of engineering dif- 
ferentiated in favor of the Civil or the Mining branches of Engineering, but so far 
it had been contended that Mechanical Engineering should be taught only in the 
shops. This seems to-day to be remarkable when we reflect that all successful 
engineering is based upon the same fundamentals of mathematics and natural 
science combined with practice in the field, the mine, the factory, and in business. 

While their plans were still in a nebulous condition the trustees called to 
their assistance, as President of the new institution, not an engineer, not even an 
experienced educator, but a young man trained for the law who through natural 
inclination and opportunity had been led into the paths of science. Henry Morton 
grasped the idea, quickly gave it definite form, and, displaying his executive capa- 
city, promptly called to his support a Faculty small in number, but singularly well 



INTRODUCTION xv 

qualified to develop and carry out a new line of educational work. And let it not 
be forgotten that the plan outlined in 1870 in its main feature — the co-ordina- 
tion of theory and practice — has been retained to the present time and remains the 
backbone of the Stevens educational scheme. 

Concerned with practical things, as I have been all my working life, it seems 
to me nothing short of marvelous that a man educated as was Henry Morton 
should have been found capable of initiating a course of instruction so essentially 
practical. Morton was a firm believer in the employment of the imagination in 
the development of scientific truths ; he, himself, was unusually qualified in this re- 
gard, and his record as the first president of Stevens Institute demonstrated that 
he was able to carry his powers of imagination into the realm of practical things. 
He was that rarity, — a genius endowed with balance of character. 

Shortly after Dr. Morton's death I was called upon to write of his life for 
the " Stevens Institute Indicator." I undertook the work with many misgivings, 
for I keenly appreciated my inability to do justice to so many-sided and brilliant 
a personality. Since then I have had some two years of experience as the head 
of the institution he created, and in this position I have been led more keenly to 
appreciate my insufficiency as his biographer. But in this volume we have the his- 
tory of Stevens Institute for the thirty years of his stewardship, and in the records 
of the thousand Alumni can be read how faithfully and efficiently this steward- 
ship was administered for the benefit of his fellows and in the service of his 
Master. 

President Morton's wonderful capacity for the rapid acquisition of exact 
knowledge in every branch of science, combined with a like ability accurately to 
appraise the value of evidence, enabled him early in life to earn an unrivalled repu- 
tation as a scientific expert in patent causes. His extra labors in this field enabled 
him to meet from time to time the Institute's most pressing pecuniary needs. And 
we may believe that it was Andrew Carnegie's sympathetic appreciation of Dr. 
Morton's qualities of head and heart that influenced him to build and endow the 
Carnegie Laboratory of Engineering. 

Henry Morton gave his great ability, his substance, and — yes — - his very 
life to Stevens Institute ; for I am convinced that in large measure it was the 
worry occasioned by the insufficiency of the Institute's endowment, made apparent 
by the growth due to his successful administration of its affairs, that finally broke 
down his frail body, never strong enough to keep pace with the demands of his 
great heart and intellect. 



xvi THE STEVENS INSTITUTE OE TECHNOLOGY 

I feel that this vohime, with its record of the Stevens Family, President 
Morton, the Faculty, the Trustees, and the Alumni, shotild serve as an inspiration 
and encouragement to continue Henry Morton's work; and above all I hope that it 
will serve still more closely to unite the Alumni in the service of their Alma 
Mater. The Institute has many loyal sons ; may this volume go out to strengthen 
them in their love for " Stevens " and to quicken the loyalty of those who are now 
but lukewarm. The educational bounty which we have received let us in turn ex- 
tend to others in need. 

ALEXANDER C. HUMPHREYS, 

President of Stevens Institute of Technology. 



Contents 

Page 

PREFACE ix 

INTRODUCTION BY PRESIDENT HUMPHREYS xiii 

LIST OF ILLUSTRATIONS xix 



HISTORY OF THE INSTITUTE 

INTRODUCTION i 

ORGANIZATION 2 

THE ORIGINAL FACULTY 6 

FORMAL OPENING 6 

ORIGINAL EQUIPMENT AND COURSE OF STUDY 7 

EARLY SCIENTIFIC AND POPULAR LECTURES 9 

GROWTH OF THE INSTITUTE: 

GOVERNMENT , u 

FINANCE 13 

ADVANCEMENT IN THE COURSE OF STUDY 17 

SCHOLARSHIPS AND PRIZES 25 



ATTENDANCE 
THE FACULTY 



ALTERATIONS TO MAIN BUILDING, AND NEW BUILDINGS ... 35 

STEVENS SCHOOL ' 40 

THE TWENTY-FIFTH ANNIVERSARY CELEBRATION OF TFIE FOUNDING 
OF THE INSTITUTE: 

THE BANQUET 41 

EXHIBITION OF THE WORK OF THE FACULTY AND ALUMNI . . 46 

DEDICATION OF THE CARNEGIE LABORATORY OF ENGINEERING . . 55 

INAUGURATION OF PRESIDENT HUMPHREYS 61 

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Page 

THE ALUMNI ASSOCIATION 62 

" STEVENS INSTITUTE INDICATOR " 65 

STUDENT ENTERPRISES: 

SOCIAL LIFE 66 

ENGINEERING SOCIETIES . . . ■ 68 

ATHLETICS 69 

PUBLICATIONS . 72 

MUSICAL CLUBS 74 

MISCELLANEOUS CLUBS AND COLLEGE CUSTOMS 75 



II 



THE STEVENS FAMILY 

A FAMILY OF ENGINEERS 81 

REMINISCENCES 95 

RECOGNITION OF THE ENGINEERING ACHIEVEMENTS OF JOHN, ROB- 
ERT L., AND EDWIN A. STEVENS 99 

BRIEF BIOGRAPHICAL RECORD 103 

CLASSIFIED RECORD OF ENGINEERING WORK: 

INTRODUCTION AND DEVELOPMENT OF THE STEAM-ENGINE 

FOR BOAT-PROPULSION 106 

EARLY DAYS OF THE LOCOMOTIVE AND THE STEAM RAILROAD in 

INVENTION OF THE T-RAIL AND SPIKE 117 

INVENTION OF THE ELONGATED SHELL FOR CANNON .... 121 

THE STEVENS BATTERY 122 

MISCELLANEOUS INVENTIONS 136 

SUMMARY OF ENGINEERING WORK 143 

III 

BIOGRAPHIES 

THE TRUSTEES 147 

THE FACULTY ■ 165 

THE ALUMNI 286 



List of Illustrations 



Page 

Henry Morton Frontispiece 

Edwin A. Stevens i 

Stevens Institute of Technology 3 

Old Engineering Lecture Room 5 

Old Lecture Hall lo 

Old Workshop 12 

Carnegie Laboratory of Engineering 15 

Morton Laboratory of Chemistry (proposed) . 17 

Ground Floor of the Carnegie Laboratory of Engineering 19 

Old Wood-Turning Room 21 

Electrical Instrument Laboratory 23 

One of the Enlarged Drawing-Rooms 33 

New Wood-Working Room in East Basement 34 

New Machine-Shop in West Basement 35 

Forge and Molding-Room, with Foundry 35 

New Auditorium in Central Wing of the Main Building ^6 

Stevens Institute, Showing Main Building with Terrace Removed, and Carne- 
gie Laboratory of Engineering 37 

Dynamo-Room in Electrical Laboratory 39 

Exhibitions of Work at Twenty-fifth Anniversary: 

Exhibits in the Physical Laboratory, — Two Views 47, 49 

Descriptive Geometry Models 50 

Luminous Electric Tubes 51 

Exhibits in the Library 53 

Andrew Carnegie 56 

Silver Box Containing a Piece of the Stevens or T-Rail of 1831 57 

Allis-Corliss Cross Compound Engine in Carnegie Laboratory 59 

Models of Bessemer Converter, Ingot Molds, Open-Hearth Furnace, and Blast 

Furnace 60 

Colonel John Stevens 82 

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Page 

Original John Stevens Boat-Engine of 1804 85 

The Locomotive "John Bull" 86 

The " Phcenix," the First Sea-Going Steamship 87 

The Yacht " Maria " Rigged as a Sloop 89 

Edwin A. Stevens 90 

The Stevens Battery Shelling an Enemy's Fleet in the Bay of New York . . 93 

The Stevens Battery Drawing Back After Ramming a Frigate 94 

Castle Point Homestead in 1802 103 

Colonel John Stevens 104 

Castle Point Homestead in 1904 105 

First Train on the Camden and Amboy Railroad 113 

Experimental Locomotive on Private Track, Hoboken, N. J., 1826 115 

Robert L. Stevens 117 

Facsimile of Original Sketch of Cross-Section, Side-Elevation^ and Ground- 
Plan OF THE First T-Rail 118 

Facsimile of Bill for Altering Rolls Damaged in Making the First T-Rails . . 120 

The Stevens Battery in Her Dry Dock 123 

The Stevens Battery, Plan, Elevation, and Cross-Section 126 

The " Naugatuck " , 127 

The Yacht " Maria " Rigged as a Schooner 139 

Race Between Yachts " America " and " Maria " 140 

The "Philadelphia," or "Old Sal" 141 

Reduced Copy of Page 66 of "The Rosetta Stone Report" 167 

Lecture by Henry Morton in Academy of Music^ Philadelphia 169 

Burning a Sword During the Course of a Lecture 171 

Solar Eclipse, August 7, 1869 173 

Henry Morton 175 

TtiE Living Hand on the Screen 187 

Illustration for a Humorous Poem 191 

Chromatic Photometer 205 

Acoustic Experiment 207 

Adjustable Model Showing Six Geometrical Surfaces 220 

The Battle Between the "Monitor" and the " Merrimac " ....... 221 

Model Showing Intersecting Cones 222 

Recording Instruments for Pressure, Temperature, and Electricity . 266, 267, 268 



LIST OF ILLUSTRATIONS 

THE TRUSTEES 

Page 
Mrs. E. a. Stevens ....... 147 Alexander T. McGill 

William W. Shippen 147 Edwin A. Stevens . 

Samuel Bayard Dod 147 Richard Stevens 



Page 

... 154 

• • ■ 155 

... 156 

Henry Morton 150 Henry R. Towne 157 

Andrew Carnegie 151 Alfred R. Wolff 159 

Alexander C. Humphreys . . . . 152 George B. M. Harvey 161 

Charles Macdonald 153 



THE ALUMNI TRUSTEES 

A. P. Trautwein 158 L. H. Nash 

William Kent 158 J. W. Lieb, Jr. 

William Hewitt 158 G. J. Roberts, Jr. 

E. B. Wall 

Durand Woodman 

F. E. Idell 

G. M. Bond 160 

H. deB. Parsons . . . . . . . 160 



160 

160 

162 

158 A. S. Miller 162 

158 W. L. Lyall 162 

160 C. H. Page, Jr. ....... 162 

E. A. Uehling 162 



Henry Morton 164 

A. C. Humphreys 194 

A. M. Mayer 203 

R. H. Thurston 210 

Edward Wall 218 

C. W. MacCord 219 

A. R. Leeds 223 

C. F. Kroeh 229 

De Volson Wood 234 

W. E. Geyer 239 

J. E. Denton 241 

J. B. Webb 245 

Coleman Sellers 250 



THE FACULTY 

T. B. Stillman 254 

D. S. Jacobus 257 



Adam Riesenberger 263 

C. A. Carr 264 

W. H. Bristol 265 

A. F. Ganz 270 

F. DeR. Furman 272 

S. D. Graydon 274 

F. L. Pryor 275 

F. L. Sevenoak 276 

E. R. Knapp 277 

W. J. Moore 279 

C. O. Gunther 279 



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THE FACULTY— Continued 

Page Page 

F. J. Pond 280 L. A. Martin 283 

C. B. LePage 281 H. W. Johnson 283 

W. A. SnouDY 282 F. M. Hummel 284 



Portraits of the Alumni and Illustrations of Their Work, Arranged in Al- 
phabetical Order 287-630 

Portraits of Associate Members of the Alumni Association, and Illustrations 

OF Their Work 631-634 

The Class of 1903 636 

The Class of 1904 640 



History of the Institute 




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I 

History of the Institute 



INTRODUCTION 

THE official history of the Stevens Institute of Technology dates from 
April 15, 1867, when Mr. Edwin Augustus Stevens, in his will, be- 
queathed a block of land adjoining the family estate at Castle Point, 
Hoboken, N. J., $150,000 for the erection of a building, and $500,000 as an en- 
dowment, for an " institution of learning." 

Although unexpressed in his will, it is known that Mr. Stevens had in 
mind an institution devoted to the advancement of the mechanic arts, to which 
he had contributed in no small degree. He was the surviving member of a family 
trio — father and two sons — of pioneer engineers whose achievements gave the 
first great impetus to mechanical engineering in America. Of the remarkable 
work accomplished by these three men, the world at large knows but little, doubt- 
less owing to their modesty and to their absolute independence of public support, 
which permitted them to carry on quietly and unobservedly the construction of 
steam engines and machinery at a time when such devices were little known and 
were looked upon with distrustful eyes. And then, when these men demonstrated, 
by actual operation, the success of their work, there were none whose financial 
interest prompted them to herald the news far and wide. In those days there were 
no great newspapers, no telegraphs, no railroads, no steamboats. 

Before the close of the eighteenth century. Col. John Stevens was engaged 
in constructing a private steamboat which he operated on the Hudson River in 
1804, three years before Fulton's "Clermont" was employed as a commercial 
enterprise. In 1808 he placed in commission the " Phoenix," which, in its trip 
from Hoboken to Philadelphia under the supervision of his son Robert Livingston 
Stevens, was the first steamboat to brave the ocean. While the construction 
of the Erie Canal was under discussion by the legislators of New York State 
in 1 812, Col. John Stevens earnestly petitioned them to construct a railroad 
instead of the canal, and ventured to predict that an average speed of thirty 
miles per hour could be attained, and that sixty miles might be. Twenty years 
later he built as a private venture, on his own estate in Hoboken, the first locomo- 



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tive and railroad track in America. This was soon followed by the construction 
of the Camden & Amboy railroad, now a part of the Pennsylvania System. 

During the war with England, in 1813, Robert L. Stevens invented the 
elongated shell to be fired from cannon, the secret of which he disposed of to the 
United States government. In 1814 Col. John Stevens projected a circular iron 
fort to be revolved by steam, and under his direction his son Edwin Augustus 
carried on experiments to determine the results of firing cannon against iron 
plating. As a result, the brothers Edwin and Robert conceived the plan of ap- 
plying iron plating to war-vessels, and in 1841 entered into negotiations with 
the United States for the first armor-plated battle-ship. 

Such were the great inventions and enterprises of the Stevens family of 
engineers. In the development of their plans, however, it was necessary to invent 
many matters of detail in themselves of no small importance. Thus, when John 
Stevens invented the tubular boiler and applied the principle of the screw to pro- 
peller-blades, there was no patent protection in this country, and so, on his peti- 
tion, the patent law of April 10, 1790, was passed. In connection with the work 
of railroad development Robert L. Stevens invented, in 1830, the T-rail which is 
now in universal use for track-construction on steam roads. Not only these, but 
many other inventions, could be credited to the Stevens family of engineers at 
this point ; but that would not be in line with the purpose of this section of the 
volume, which is to relate the history of Stevens Institute. 

In this brief mention of the work of these three men, the curtain has been 
drawn for a vision of the real beginning of the history of the Stevens Institute of 
Technology, — unofficial, of course, but history none the less, for it reveals the 
solid foundation on which rests the name of Stevens. 

In this firm substructure the Stevens man will ever take the deepest pride. 
The prestige not only of a great name in his profession, but of a name that must 
be for ever associated with the earliest engineering achievements, is his. 

Technical literature contains no theme of more surpassing interest than, 
collectively, do numerous family records, commercial papers, and government doc- 
uments relating to the work of John, Robert L., and Edwin A. Stevens. These 
muniments, now widely distributed and in the aggregate voluminous, have been 
assembled, and extracts made for incorporation in this volume. Those who de- 
sire to pursue further this portion of the Institute's early tributary history will 
find the material in Book II. 



ORGANIZATION 

The death of Mr. Edwin A. Stevens occurred in 1868. His will provided 
that within two years after his decease his executors should erect a suitable build- 
ing " of some substantial but economical material," and that they should within 



ORGANIZATION 3 

three years " establish the institution for the benefit, tuition, and advancement in 
learning of the youth residing, from time to time hereafter, within the State of 
New Jersey." 

The executors of his will were also appointed Trustees of the new institu- 
tion. They were : Mrs. Edwin A. Stevens, his wife ; Mr. W. W. Shippen, his 
friend and co-worker in his later years; and Mr. S. B. Dod, his brother-in-law. 

Soon after the death of Mr. Stevens the executors began the fulfillment of 
their trust. They decided that the new institution should be a school of technol- 




Stevens Institute of Technology 



ogy, and accordingly an act incorporating the Stevens Institute of Technology 
was approved February 15, 1870. 

Plans for the building were drawn by Mr. R. M. Upjohn, a prominent New 
York architect. They called for a more pretentious building than the one con- 
structed, including a spire rising fifty feet above the present tower, as well as two 
smaller spires thirty-five feet high, one at each of the rear corners of the main 
building, directly over the side entrances : but for economy's sake and other rea- 
sons these ornaments were dispensed with, as was also the east wing, which, 
however, was added a year later to make room for the Stevens High School, 
which was then organized by the Trustees. 

During the summer of 1870 Professor Henry Morton, who then occupied 
the Chair of Chemistry at the University of Pennsylvania, and who was at the 



4 THE STEVENS INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY 

same time secretary and editor of the " Journal of the FrankHn Institute," was 
selected as President of the new institution. 

With absolutely no prjecedent for a course of study in mechanical engi- 
neering, Mr. Dod and President Morton engaged upon the preparation of a gen- 
eral plan which was adopted at the start, and has endured without essential change 
to the present day. The subjects of Electrical Engineering and Business Engineer- 
ing, which have developed in recent years, have been added, and the original sub- 
jects pruned and grafted to meet advancing requirements; but the general plan as 
stated in the first Catalogue, or Announcement, in 1871, remains substantially as 
the foundation for the present course. That this can be said after a test of thirty- 
three years speaks well for the wisdom and foresight shown in the preparation 
and adoption of the original plan, which was as follows: 

" It was determined, as has been stated, to create a school of mechanical engineer- 
ing, and as this was to be of a high educational order, and to involve a general and not a 
merely industrial training, it was thought best to give to the new Institute the title of 
' Technology,' and thus, in memory also of its munificent founder, it is called The Stev- 
ens Institute of Technology. 

" The plan of instruction to be pursued is such as may best fit young men of 
ability for leading positions in the department of mechanical engineering, and in the 
pursuits of scientific investigation, from which this and all the sister arts have derived, and 
are daily deriving, such incalculable benefits. 

" With this view it is intended, — 

" 1st. To afford a thorough training in the elementary and advanced branches of 
mathematics in so far as these are useful means of investigation and of work, and not 
themselves the ends and objects of labor. 

"2d. To give a thoroughly practical course of instruction in physics, by means of 
physical laboratories, in which the students will l:!e taught to make, and caused to make 
for themselves, experimental researches as to the laws of nature bearing upon the sub- 
jects of their special study. Thus the student will be made to develop for himself the 
laws of flexure of beams variously supported, of torsional, compressive, or tensile strain, 
and the relations of strength to form and nature of material; doing all this by means of 
apparatus which will be put into his own hands, and which he will be taught to use. 

" Or, again, he will be instructed in the relations of temperature to tension of 
vapor, of specific and latent heat, of radiation and absorption of heat, and the like; not 
by lessons learned from a book, or a preceptor alone, but by experiments conducted by 
himself and with instruments actually in his own hands. 

" By such means as this, not only will the facts and laws be impressed in a manner 
which no other process can approach, but a training will be given in methods of investi- 
gation which will be invaluable for the master of the always new and varied problems 
of actual work. 

"3d. The subject of mechanical engineering, in reference to the theory and prac- 
tice of construction of machines, will form, like the others, a distinct department under 
the charge of a special Professor, experienced in the practical relations of his subject, 
and enabled to devote his entire attention to this branch. 

"4th. The subject of mechanical drawing, which may well be called the language 
of engineering, comprising the use of mathematical instruments and water-colors, elemen- 



ORGANIZATION 5 

tary projection and perspective, with descriptive geometry, including orthographical, iso- 
metric, and spherical projection, will likewise form a separate department, to which a large 
amount of time and attention will be devoted. 

" 5th. The subjects of chemistry and metallurgy will likewise be thoroughly taught, 
with all the modern appliances of working laboratories, etc., as will be seen on reference 
to the plans of the various stories of the building. . . . 

" The reduction and working of the useful metals will be included in this depart- 




Engineering Lecture Room 



ment, and will be practically illustrated by means of a series of metallurgical furnaces 
constructed for this purpose. 

" 6th. The French and German languages will be an essential part of the course 
of instruction, since they are of incalculable value to the engineer and man of science, as 
the vehicles of a vast amount of new information in his special subjects, and also as afford- 
ing that kind of mental culture which mathematical and physical science, if followed ex- 
clusive, would fail to supply. 

" 7th. A department of belles-lettres will also be included, and will furnish the 
means of acquiring that cuUivation of literary taste and the facility of graceful use of 
language, both in speaking and writing, which is as desirable in the engineer and man 
of science as in the classical student." 



6 THE STEVENS INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY 

THE ORIGINAL FACULTY 

During the time that the plans were thus being matured and the build- 
ing under construction, the Trustees, again assisted by President Morton, were 
selecting the following Faculty. Their previous positions are given in parenthe- 
ses following the names : 

Henry Morton, Ph.D President 

(Professor of Chemistry, University of Pennsylvania ; and Secretary, and 
Editor of tlie "Journal," of the Franklin Institute) 

Alfred M. JMayer, Ph.D Professor of Physics 

(Professor of Physics and Astronomy, l.ehigh University) 

Robert H. Thurston, C.E Professor of Meclianical Engineering 

(Engineer Officer, United States Navy, detailed as Professor of Natural and 
Experimental Philosophy at the United States Naval Academy) 

Lieut. -Col. H. A. Hascall Professor of Mathematics 

Charles W. MacCord, A.M Professor of Mechanical Drazving 

(Chief Draughtsman for Captain John Ericsson) 

Albert R. Leeds, A.M Professor of Chemistry 

(Professor of Chemistry in Philadelphia Dental College, followed by study 
and research at the University of Berlin) 

Charles F. Kroeh, A.RI Professor of Languages 

(Professor of French and German, Lehigh Uni\-ersi(y) 

Rev. Edw.\rd Wall, A.M Professor of Bellcs-Lettres 

(Engaged in the Ministry) 

Owing to ill health Prof. Hascall taught only a few months, and was suc- 
ceeded at the end of the first year by Prof. De Volson \\'ood, who Avas the first to 
carry out a plan for the Department of Mathematics, and who might therefore 
be said to be practically its first Professor. Prof. Wood came from the University 
of Michigan, where he had occupied the Chair of Civil Engineering. 



FORMAL OPENING 

The summer of 1871 found all the essential preliminary arrangements 
practically completed, and on the third Wednesday of September of that year 
the doors of Stevens Institute were first thrown open for the reception of students. 
During the first year 21 students were in attendance, — 2 Juniors, 3 Sophomores, 
and 16 Freshmen. 

In June, 1873, the Institute graduated its first class, which consisted of 
but one member, ]\Ir. J. Augustus Henderson, who thus became the first to re- 
ceive the legal degree of Mechanical Engineer. After graduation Mr. Hender- 
son was in the iron shipbuilding business in this country and in Russia, and later 
in the United States Navy, from which he is now retired, living at State College, 
Center County, Pa. 



ORIGINAL EQUIPMENT 7 

ORIGINAL EQUIPMENT AND COURSE OF STUDY 

That the plan for the course of study might be carried out in the most 
efficient manner, no effort was spared in securing a complete equipment of ap- 
paratus to exemplify the teaching of the theoretical part of the course. 

The equipment of the Physical Laboratory was tmusually complete, and, 
it is believed, second to none in the country at that time. It included valuable in- 
struments for illustrating- actions in molecular physics, elementary mechanics, 
acoustics, heat, electricity, and optics, most of which came from Salleron, of 
Paris, Koenig, Simon, Beclard, Graham, Bunsen, Ritchie, and others ; a chron- 
oscope from Hipp, of Neuchatel, sufficiently delicate to measure the one-thou- 
sandth part of a second and demonstrate the law of falling bodies at a height of 
18 inches; many instruments used in the classical researches of Dalton, Gay- 
Lussac, Dumas, and Regnault ; an electro-magnet weighing nearly a ton, and 
containing in its eight spools some 2,000 feet of wire one fifth of an inch in diam- 
eter, — the largest then in existence ; also the then famous collection of optical 
instruments purchased from the estate of Charles N. Bancker, of Philadelphia. 
This latter collection covered the whole range of optical discovery, and was said 
by Abbe Moigno (" Cosmos," 1859, p. 557) to be " the most numerous and bril- 
liant that exists in the world." 

The Department of Chemistry started with a large collection, including a 
cabinet of minerals, rocks, fossils, and models of crystals, comprising in all 
about 5,500 specimens ; a cabinet of ores and metallvu-gical products; a cabinet 
of chemical substances arranged according to their chemical relationships ; cab- 
inets of applied and industrial chemistry; and a museum of apparatus pertaining 
to chemical physics and applied chemistry. 

The Department of Mechanical Drawing was equipped with a set of 
models of geometrical surfaces by Olivier, of Paris ; a set of models of problems 
in descriptive geometry from Schroder, of Darmstadt; and a large collection of 
drawings. 

The executors of the Stevens Estate and a large number of individuals and 
prominent engineering firms are recorded as having shown their interest in the 
proposed work of the new institution by making interesting and useful and in 
many cases valuable contributions of engines, machinery, engineering apparatus, 
iron and steel samples, etc., to the Engineering Department. These contributions 
were frequently augmented from government and commercial and private sources, 
so that in a few years the practical equipment of this Department was unusually 
complete. 

This entire equipment served as a valuable supplement to the detail of the 
curriculum, a brief statement of which is given in a later subdivision on the "Ad- 
vancement in the Course of Study" (p. 17). For the present purpose it is suffi- 
cient to outline the foundation on which the Trustees and the President had 



8 THE STEVENS INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY 

planned their future work in the class-room, laboratory, and shop. This is re- 
vealed in the " Requirements for Admission " as they appeared in the first Cat- 
alogue, or Announcement, which was issued in the year 1871, from which the 
following is quoted : ^ 

" Candidates for admission to the first year of the course should not be less than 
sixteen years of age, and must be prepared to pass a satisfactory examination in English 
grammar, geography, arithmetic, algebra — including quadratic equations, plane geometry, 
as given in Davies's ' Legendre,' plane trigonometry — solution of plane triangles. 

" Candidates for admission to the higher classes must be prepared to pass a satis- 
factory examination in the studies previously pursued by the classes which they propose 
to enter. 

" Advanced students and men of science desiring to avail themselves of the ap- 
pliances of the laboratories of Stevens Institute, to carry on special investigations, may 
make arrangements to that end with the President." 

It may be of interest briefly to compare these requirements with those 
of the present day, as set forth in the Institute Catalogue of 1903-04. The terms 
of admission to the Freshman class in 1903 were that the candidate should be 
seventeen years of age and pass satisfactory examinations in arithmetic, algebra 
— " all the matter contained in any good University 'Algebra,' not including the 
solution of equations higher than the second degree nor the general theory of 
equations"; all of plane, solid, and spherical geometry; all the fundamental for- 
mulae of plane trigonometry; English classic literature; American history; me- 
chanics, hydrostatics, and pneumatics in physics; and "as much of chemistry as 
is contained in the first eleven chapters, and in chapters 15, 16, and 17, of Newth's 
* Elementary Inorganic Chemistry '." 

From the start there has been but one regular course of study, and this 
leading only to the degree of Mechanical Engineer. During the early history of 
the Institute, however, when there were accommodations for more than the num- 
ber of regular students then in attendance, special students were received, and 
graduates from other institutions were allowed to pursue a special course of 
study in either the Physical or Chemical Laboratory, or both, at the satisfactory 
conclusion of which the Institute gave the degree of Bachelor of Science or of 
Doctor of Philosophy. Although a number of special students availed themselves 
of the opportunity thus offered for a special training in physics or chemistry, only 
seven received degrees, as follows : 

William E. Geyer, B.S., 1877, Ph.D., 1880 William M. Dougherty, B.S., 1878 

John F. Kelly, B.S., 1878, Ph.D., 1897 Wilbur V. Brown, B.S., 1880, Ph.D., 1888 

Brown Ayres, B.S., 1878, Ph.D., 1888 Durand Woodman, B.S., 1880, Ph.D., 1887 

Thomas B. Stillman, Ph.D., 1883 

All other graduates of the Institute have the degree of Mechanical En- 
gineer. 



EARLY SCIENTIFIC AND POPULAR LECTURES 9 

At different times the Institute has conferred honorary degrees as fol- 
lows : 

Doctor of Philosophy 
Prof. Henry Wurtz, 1877 Prof. Samuel P. Langley, 1881 

Prof. John P. Rice, 1880 Prof. A. A. Michelson, 1887 

Doctor of Engineering 

E. D. Leavitt, Jr., 1884 Francis B. Stevens, 1890 

R. H. Thurston, A.M., LL.D., 1885 Rear-Adm. George W. Melville, U.S.N., 1896 

Coleman Sellers, 1888 J. Elfreth Watkins, 1900 

Honorary Degree of Electrical Engineer 
John W. Howell, 1899 Joseph Wetzler, 1899 

Honorary Degree of Mechanical Engineer 
Clarence A. Carr, 1884 Walton Clark, 1903 

Frank M. Leavitt, 1800 



EARLY SCIENTIFIC AND POPULAR LECTURES 

At the time of the opening of the Institute lectures were given weekly dur- 
ing the college year for several years, in addition to the regular collegiate course. 
These courses of lectures were divided into two classes, Popular and Technical, 
which were open not only to the students but to the general public on the pur- 
chase of tickets. These lectures were held in the evenings in the large lecture 
hall, which had a seating-capacity of over 600. This hall was situated in the cen- 
tral wing of the main building, where the machine-shop was located for many 
years. To quote from the Catalogue of 1871 : 

"The Popular course w^ill be composed of lectures on such general subjects as 
would be likely to interest the public at large; and the Technical course will consist of lec- 
tures by experts in various branches bearing on the general objects of this school, and pre- 
sumably of interest chiefly to engineers and men of science." 

Popular Course 

Prof. G. F. Barker, M.D., of New Haven. On Spectrum Analysis. Four Lectures. 

Prof. Stephen Alexander, LL.D., of Princeton. On the Nebular Hypothesis. Two Lec- 
tures. 

Prof. A. M. Mayer, Ph.D., of the Stevens Institute. On Magnetism. Two Lectures. 

Prof. A. R. Leeds, A.M., of the Stevens Institute. On Chemistry. Two Lectures. 

Prof. Chandler, Ph.D., of Columbia College. On Water. One Lecture. 

Pres. Henry Morton, Ph.D., of the Stevens Institute. On the Eye and Vision, and on 
Polarized Light. Two Lectures. 



lo THE STEVENS INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY 

Technical Course 

Mr. a. S. Holley, C.E., of Troy, N. Y. On Bessemer Works. Two Lectures. 
Mr. Coleman Sellers, C.E., of Philadelphia, Pa. On Transmission of Motion. 
Prof. J. E. Hilgard, U. S. Coast Survey, Washington, D. C. On Methods of Precision in 

Weighing and Measuring. One Lecture. 
Prof. R. H. Thurston, M.E., of the Stevens Institute. On the History of the Modern 

Steam Engine and the Direction of Its Future Development, and on the Relations 

of the School to the Workshop. Two Lectures. 





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GROWTH OF THE INSTITUTE ii 

GROWTH OF THE INSTITUTE 

GOVERNMENT 

The Stevens Institute of Technology is governed by a Board of Trustees 
which originally consisted of the three members appointed by Mr. Edwin A. 
Stevens in his will. They were, as already stated, Mrs. Martha B. Stevens, Mr. 
William W. Shippen, and Mr. Samuel B. Dod, who conjointly managed the 
affairs of the Institute for sixteen years until the death of Mr. Shippen, which 
occurred in 1885, when President Henry Morton, Ph.D., was elected to fill the 
vacancy. 

During the year 1886 the Alumni Association, which had then been in 
existence for more than ten years, and which was not without influence in the 
affairs of the Institute, resolved that it was important to the best interests and 
the most satisfactory growth of the Institute " to have representation by one of its 
members, who was to be known as the Alumni Trustee, in the government of the 
institution," and embodied this resolution in a memorial to the Board of Trustees, 
which promptly expressed its approval. According to the conditions of its charter 
it was necessary for the Board of Trustees to elect its own members, and 
the Alumni Association was therefore instructed to present two or more names 
to the Trustees for their action. This was done, with the result that Mr. Alfred 
P. Trautwein, M.E., of the Class of 1876, was selected in 1887 to serve as Alumni 
Trustee for a term of three years, at the expiration of which time Mr. Wil- 
liam Kent, M.E., '76, was elected to succeed him. 

In the year 1891 the Board of Trustees deemed it expedient still further to 
increase its membership, and accordingly five new permanent Trustees were then 
elected, as follows: Messrs. Andrew Carnegie, Alexander C. Humphreys, M.E., 
and Charles MacDonald, C.E., of New York city ; Alexander T. McGill, Chancel- 
lor of New Jersey, Jersey City; and Col. Edwin A. Stevens, of Hoboken. 

In December of 1891 the Trustees granted to the Alumni Association two 
additional representatives on their Board, making three in all. 

The two Alumni Trustees then elected were Mr. William Hewitt, M.E., ' 74, 
for two years, and Mr. Alfred R. Wolff, M.E., '76, for three years, provision 
having been made that in the futui-e there should always be three Alumni Trustees 
to serve three years each, one being elected each year. In 1893 Mr. Kent was suc- 
ceeded by Mr. Edward Wall, M.E., '76, wdio died the following year; Mr. Du- 
rand Woodman, Ph.D., '80, being elected to fill the vacancy. At the same time 
Mr. Frank E. Idell, M.E., 'yy, was elected for a full term; and since then Mr. 
George M. Bond, M.E., '80; Mr. Harry de B. Parsons, M.E., '84; Mr. Lewis 
H. Nash, M.E., 'yy; Mr. John W. Lieb, Jr., M.E., '80; Mr. George J. Roberts, 
M.E., '84; Mr. W. L. Lyall, M.E., '84; Mr. Alten S. Miller, M.E., '88; Mr. Car- 
ter H. Page, Jr., M.E., '87, and Mr. Edward A. Uehling, M.E., 'jj, — have been 
elected. 



GROWTH OF THE INSTITUTE 13 

In 1899 the Board of Trustees lost by death Mrs. Martha B. Stevens, 
and in 1900 Chancellor Alexander T. McGill. 

Mr. Richard Stevens, a son of the founder, was elected a member of the 
Board of Trustees in 1896, and Mr. Henry R. Towne, senior member of the Yale 
& Towne Manufacturing- Co., in 1900. In the latter year Mr. Alfred R. Wolff, 
M.E., of the class of '76, was elected a permanent trustee. Col. G. B. M. Har- 
vey is the latest member of the Board of Trustees, having been elected in Feb- 
ruary, 1903. In June, 1903, Mr. MacDonald resigned. 

The officers of the Board of Trustees at the present time are : Mr. Samuel 
Bayard Dod, President; Mr. Andrew Carnegie, Vice-President; Col. E. A. 
Stevens, Treasurer; President Alexander C. Humphreys, M.E., Sc.D., LL.D., 
Secretary. 

FINANCE 

The founding of the Institute was, as has been stated, the result of the be- 
quest, by Mr. Edwin A. Stevens, of a block of land, a building fund of $150,000, 
and an endowment fund of $500,000. 

The $500,000 endowment fund was depleted at the outset to the extent of 
$45,000, levied by the United States government as a "collateral inheritance tax." 
This tax was the result of Congressional legislation passed, along with many 
other special taxes, to replenish the coffers of the United States government, which 
had been very much diminished by the Civil War. The Trustees of the Institute 
promptly paid their assessment, which amounted to a little more than the above- 
mentioned sum, early in the year 1869. Not more than six or seven months after 
this, all those who had delayed, or who had not made payment, as well as all 
others, were exempted from this tax. Under these circumstances the Trustees 
made a number of attempts, and brought to bear the influence of prominent men 
at Washington, to have this much-needed money refunded, but without avail. 

The income from the endowment fund, and a tuition fee of $75 a year 
from each student, were the means at first available to maintain the Institute. 

But the development of the course of instruction upon the high educational 
plane which had been mapped out involved the expenditure of large sums of 
money for maintenance and operation of machinery and apparatus, for which the 
income derived from the above sources was soon found inadequate. 

For this reason the tuition fee was increased in 1875 to $150 per an- 
num;^ and with this addition to the receipts, the requirements of the Institute 
were satisfactorily met for a number of years. 

When, however, in 1881, the need of better facilities in the shop-work 
course became pressing, there were no funds available for the purpose. At this 
time President Morton came to the assistance of the Board of Trustees by con- 

^ This tuition fee of $150 is for students residing in the State of New Jersey. Non-residents are 
charged $73 extra under a clause in Mr. Stevens's will. 



14 THE STEVENS INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY 

tributing the sum of $10,500 toward fitting up the workshop in the middle wing 
of the building. 

In 1883 the Department of Applied Electricity was established, toward 
which President Morton contributed $2,500 for electrical apparatus, and addi- 
tional amounts to defray the running expenses for two years. In 1889 he en- 
dowed the Chair of Engineering Practice, contributing for the purpose the sum 
of $10,000. In 1892 President Morton supplemented this contribution with an- 
other of $20,000 for the same purpose, with the proviso that the income be ap- 
plied to the Alumni Building Fund until the amount required for the Alumni 
Building is complete. 

At the time of the Twenty-fifth Anniversary of the Institute in 1897 
President ]\Iorton presented to the Trustees, for the Alumni Building Fund, se- 
curities which were sold the next year for $24,000; and during 1900-01, at a 
cost of $15,000, he erected, in connection with the Carnegie Laboratory of En- 
gineering, a boiler-house to supply steam for the entire group of buildings. 

In 1901 President Morton placed in the hands of the Trustees $50,000, in 
five per cent first-mortgage bonds, as an endowment fund, primarily for the care 
and maintenance of the proposed Alumni Building, for which $60,000 had then 
been collected. To this was added, at President Morton's suggestion, the $30,000 
before given by him for the founding of a Chair of Engineering Practice, the 
entire fund being designated, by a resolution of the Trustees, as " The Henry 
Morton Endowment Fund." President Morton also suggested that the income from 
this fund, if at any time no longer required for the maintenance of the Alumni 
Building, should be converted into a Retiring Pension Fund for Instructors inca- 
pacitated while in the employment of the Institute. 

In addition to the above gifts President Morton frequently contributed 
smaller sums for apparatus and machinery to be used for purposes of instruction. 
His gifts in the aggregate amounted to $145,000. 

It should be here recorded that the Alumni of the Institute recognize that 
to President Morton is due no small share of the credit for the success of the 
institution, both for the able manner in which he performed the duties of his 
office, and for his generous contributions made at what may be considered criti- 
cal periods of the Institute's existence. 

Upon the occasion of the Twenty-fifth Anniversary Mrs. Martha B. 
Stevens, widow of Mr. E. A. Stevens, the founder of the Institute, gave a plot 
of ground consisting of two lots, with a house valued at $30,000. This property 
was occupied by President Morton as his residence up to the time of his death. 

On June 20, 1899, President Morton received a letter from Mr. Andrew 
Carnegie, dated Skibo Castle, Dornoch, Scotland, May 20, in which he stated : 

" It would give me the very greatest pleasure to devote $50,000 to the building of 
the Engineering Laboratory as you suggest. 

" We owe much to Stevens, for many valuable men have come to us from it." 



GROWTH OF THE INSTITUTE 



15 



The Trustees acted on this letter at once, and by the following August 
three sets of plans were prepared and submitted to Mr. Carnegie, who chose the 
one whose exterior view is illustrated on this page. The architectural design 
is based upon a simplified Roman arcade placed upon a basement and surmounted 
by a Corinthian entablature. The interior of the building is of steel construction, 
and it is fireproof throughout. Owing to a rise in the cost of building material. 
Air. Carnegie increased his gift to $65,000, and on June 7, 1900, ground was 
broken for the new Laboratory. Although practically completed in the fall of 



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Carnegie Laboratory of Engineering 



1901, it was not fully equipped until February 6, 1902, when the dedicatory ex- 
ercises took place, Mr. Carnegie presenting the keys of the building to Mr. Dod, 
the President of the Board of Trustees. The next morning Mr. Carnegie di- 
rected that a check for $100,000 be sent to President Morton " on account of en- 
dowment of the Carnegie Laboratory of Engineering." After the inauguration of 
President Humphreys in February, 1903, Mr. Carnegie completed the endowment 
of the Carnegie Laboratory of Engineering by an additional gift of $125,000 in 
bonds of the Pittsburg, Bessemer, & Lake Erie Railroad Co., thus making a total 
endowment of $225,000. 



i6 THE STEVENS INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY 

Early in the 'nineties the Alumni x'Vssociation started a fund for the erec- 
tion of a building for the departments of Physics and Chemistry. Upon the death 
of Professor Mayer, in 1897, the work of the Department of Physics was divided 
between the Department of General Physics and the Laboratory of Engineering 
Physics, which last replaced the former Physical Laboratory. 

In 1901 a Laboratory of Engineering Physics was provided by Mr. Car- 
negie's gift, as mentioned above, and then it was decided to devote the money 
collected in the Alumni Building Fund to the erection of a Chemical building 
alone. This fund, amounting to about $60,000 in 1901, consisted largely of the 
above-named benefactions by President Morton. It remained at this figure until 
the fall of 1902, when, through the efforts of President Humphreys, it was in- 
creased to $90,000, entirely by further subscription from the Alumni. Subscrip- 
tions are still coming in, and the sum of $120,000 is hoped for. The general fea- 
tures of the exterior design for the building, which will be called the Morton Lab- 
oratory of Chemistry, are shown in the accompanying illustration. 

In February, 1903, Col. Edwin A. Stevens and Mr. Robert L. Stevens, 
both sons of the founder of the Institute, jointly gave a tract of land, 196 x 
100 feet, close to the Institute grounds, for the erection of a dormitory thereon. 
Although not yet actually in hand. President Humphreys has secured provisional 
subscriptions from friends of the Institute for the erection of the dormitory 
building, or rather buildings, as the construction is to be carried on as demand 
arises; and when all is completed there will be a large building with several 
wings. 

By the will of Dr. Jacob Vreeland, of Poughkeepsie, the Institute re- 
ceived, in 1888, the sum of $11,000 to hold in trust, the income to be used in 
" assisting indigent and deserving young men to acquire a liberal education at 
said Institute." Students receiving this assistance are, by the terms of the will, 
required to give bonds for their indebtedness payable within a reasonable time after 
leaving the Institute, which payment, with accrued interest, shall be added to the 
fund. Little was known concerning Dr. Vreeland or how he came to look upon 
the Institute and to regard its course as a desirable endowment for deserving 
young men of talent. 

Under the arrangements for the endowment of scholarships, accepted by 
the Trustees, the American Railway Master Mechanics' Association contributed 
$8,000 in 1 89 1, thus establishing four scholarships which are open only to sons 
of members of said society. 

A scholarship confers the privilege of attending the entire course of the In- 
stitute for four years free of all charge for tuition, provided, of course, the student 
holding the scholarship keeps up in all cases with the standard of proficiency and 
good conduct required. 

The Morton Scholarship was established in 1882 by a gift of $2,500 from 
President Morton. 



GROWTH OF THE INSTITUTE 



17 



On March 17, 1902, Mr. Alexander C. Humphreys, M.E., of the Class of 
1 88 1, now President Humphreys, gave $5,000 to the Institute as an endowment for 
a scholarship in memory of his son Harold, who was drowned in the river Nile, 
between Assouan and Luxor, February 12, 1901, while endeavoring- to save his 
brother from a similar fate. Harold Humphreys was a member of the Class of 




Morton Laboratory of Chemistry (as planned), Showing Carnegie Laboratory of En- 
gineering AND West Side of Main Building 

1899 ^1^*^ '^'^^s.s the first son of a graduate of Stevens to take a degree from the In- 
stitute. He was on his wedding tour when the sad accident occurred. The young- 
er brother, Crombie, aged 7, was also drowned. This scholarship will be known 
as the Harold Humphreys Scholarship. 



ADVANCEMENT IN THE COURSE OF STUDY 



The subjects in the course of study, as arranged under the general plans 
adopted at the opening of the Institute as already referred to, included briefly 
algebra; geometry; analytical geometry; trigonometry; differential and integral 



i8 THE STEVENS INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY 

calculus; analytical mechanics; resistance and properties of materials; theory of 
bridge-building; machine and engine design; elementary drawing; descriptive 
geometry ; shades and shadows ; kinematics ; elements of mechanism ; general 
properties of matter; pneumatics and general laws of vibratory motions and 
acoustics; heat, and laws of action of heat engine, and meteorology; light; mag- 
netism ; electricity ; experimental investigations in the Physical Laboratory ; 
chemistry of non-metallic elements ; stoichiometry ; chemistry of metals ; labo- 
ratory exercises ; quantitative analysis organic chemistry ; determination of 
minerals in laboratory; crystallography; metallurgy; composition and rhetoric; 
English language ; English literature and history ; Erench and German, with Span- 
ish, Italian, or Portuguese elective; inspection trips to manufacturing establish- 
ments ; and a graduating thesis consisting of a written report of some technical 
investigation, affording an opportunity for the practical application of the theo- 
retical principles studied at the Institute. 

These subjects have, in general, been constantly followed up and devel- 
oped, and the course at the present day has the same high efficiency that it has al- 
ways had. Nothing would demonstrate this better than a complete account of 
the work now being done in each Department, but in view of the fact that this is 
ever changing and always' accessible in the latest Institute Catalogue, no attempt 
is here made to give more than a brief historical account of the more important 
steps in the advancement of the course of study. 

The first notable progress made was the establishment of a Mechanical 
Laboratory in 1875. It was equipped with testing-machines and a large 
amount of other apparatus employed for testing purposes which was sulDsequent- 
ly greatly increased by purchases of apparatus made with the proceeds from 
amounts received for tests. These tests were conducted for a clientage which 
included many manufacturers of machinery and of the ^'arious materials of en- 
gineering; for the United States government, which submitted for test material 
used in the construction of its public buildings ; for several of the railroads of 
the country, etc. Students assisted largely in conducting these tests, and thus 
obtained a practical experience of value in connection with their regular study. 

This feature of the Institute's work has always been maintained, and has 
been and is the means of keeping the Eaculty and students — the latter by ac- 
tual participation and by lectures from those of the Faculty engaged on the 
work — in direct contact with the outside engineering and business world, which 
is constantly ofifering important engineering problems for solution. 

For a number of years previous to 1881 the shop- work course was arranged 
so that, after a prescribed set of exercises in carpenter-work and wood-turning, 
millwrighting and steam-fitting, machinist-work, blacksmithing, molding, found- 
ing, and pattern-making had been performed by a class, the students were permit- 
ted to complete the course by constructing some machine. 

Thus the Class of 1876 built a Thurston autographic testing-machine. 



GROWTH OF THE INSTITUTE 



19 



several important features of the design having been previously planned in the 
drawing-room. 

The Class of 1877 built a lubricant testing-machine. 

A part of the Class of 1878 assisted in the design and construction of a 
large oil-tester, while other portions of the class designed and constructed a Prony 
dynamometer, a small horizontal engine, and a small oscillating engine. 

The Class of 1879 built an autographic transmitting dynamometer. 

The Class of 1880 assisted in the construction of a 3 V2 -horse-power com- 
pound condensing engine. 




Ground Floor of the Carnegie Laboratory of Engineering 



The construction of a machine as a final exercise in the shop was there- 
after discontinued. Subsequent classes devoted the time which had been so 
spent to the performance of more extended series of exercises in the various 
branches of the shop course. 

About the time this change took effect, the shop course was also consid- 
erably extended, and a course in experimental mechanics inaugurated. 

This course included, as then planned, a series of sixteen experimental 
exercises comprising, among others, a test of the evaporative power of boilers ; 



20 THE STEVENS INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY 

experimental determination of the total heat of combustion of coal used in boiler 
tests, and comparison of this heat with that computed from the analysis of the 
coal ; measurement of the friction of steam flowing through pipes ; comparison of 
efficiency of steam pump and injector. 



Order of Exercises in Experimental Mechanics, Class of 1902 

Supplementary Term, June and July, igoi. Nos. i io 18 refer to groups of students 



Elasticity of Timber aud Metals . . . 
Physical Test of Lubricating Oils . . . 

Safety Valves 

Condensation of Steam in Colls .... 
Friction Test of Lubricating Oils . . . 
Radiation of Pipes 

Hot Air Engine 

Westinghouse Air Brake 

Test of Thermometers and Indicators 

Ejector 

Exhaust Injector 

Injector 

Refrigeration by Means of Air 

Jet Condensing Engine Test 

Simple Engine Test 

Centrifugal Fan 

Baker Blower 

Jet Blower 

Test of Boilers 

Gas Analysis, etc 

Friction of Belting 

Buckeye Engine ; Non-Condensing. . 
Buckeye Engine; Surface-Condensing 
Gas Engine 

Steam Pump 

Flow of Steam Through Orifices . . . 

Friction of Vertical Engine 

Corliss Valve Gear 

vSteam Turbine 

Rotary Engine 

Flow of Water Through Orifices ... 

Flow of Water Through Pipes 

Calibration of Pitot Tubes 

Hydraulic Ram 

Reaction of Water Jet 

Pelton Wheel 

Centrifugal Pump and Weir 

Webb Dyuamomeler 

Dynamometers 

Test of Steam Radiator 

Metal Test 

Air Compressor 



Scott . 
Scolt . 
Scott . 
Scott . 
Scott . 
Scott . 



Meeks 
Meeks 
Meeks 
Meeks 
Meeks 
Meeks , 
Meeks , 



9:00 to 10:30 
10:30 to 11:30 
11:30 to 12:30 
1 :3o to 2 :3o 
2:30 to 3:30 
3:30 to 5:00 



9:00 to 10:30 
10:30 to 11:30 
11:30 to 12:30 
1:30 to 2:30 
2:30 to 3:30 
3:3010 4:30 
4:30 to 5:30 



Parker . 1 9:00 to 12:30 

Parker . 1:30 to 2:00 

Parker . ] 2:00 to 2:30 

Parker . 2:30 to 4:00 

Parker . 4:00 to 5:00 



Layat . . 


7:30 to 


5:30 


Layat . . 






Siegele . 


9:00 to 


10:00 


Siegele . 


10:00 to 


12:30 


Siegele . 


1 :30 to 


4:00 


Siegele . 


4:00 to 


5:00 


Wolff . . 


9:00 to 


10:30 


Wolff . . 


10.30 to 




Wolff . . 


11:30 to 


12:30 




1 :30 to 




Wolff . . 






Wolff . . 


3:3010 


5:00 


Chasteney 


9:00 to 


10:30 


Chasteuey 


10:30 to 


11:30 


Chasteney 


11:30 to 


12:30 


Chasteney 


1 :30 to 


2:30 


Chasteney 


2:30 to 


3:00 


Chasteney 


3:00 to 




Chasteney 


4 00 to 


5:00 



Ellsworth ! 9:00 to 10:00 

Ellsworth i 10:00 to 11:30 

Ellsworth I 11:30 to 12:30 

Ellsworth I 1:30 to 4:00 

Ellsworth j 4:00 to 5:00 



T I Fl S M Tlw T 

20 21 22'24 25 26 27,28 29 



The time required for these exercises and for the more extended series 
of exercises in shop-work was obtained by adding to the course — which had un- 
til then consisted of three regular terms — • a " preliminary term " of one month. 
During this month the Sophomore and Junior classes were engaged eight hours 
a day in the shop, and the Senior class for the same period each day in the per- 
formance of exercises in experimental mechanics. 

Prof. James E. Denton, to whom the credit is due for developing this im- 
portant branch of the Institute work, was at this time admitted to the Faculty. 



GROWTH OF THE INSTITUTE 21 

This work in experimental mechanics, organized in 1881, was the first in- 
stance on record in which any institution of learning had attempted to give a 
systematic course of experimental exercises illustrating the application of the prin- 
cipal formulae met by students in their theoretical engineering studies. From 1881 
until 1890 this work was performed during the latter part of August and Sep- 
tember, ending just before the opening of the Institute. From the latter date 
until 1903 it was conducted during June and July, beginning a few days after 
Commencement. With the advantages offered by the Carnegie Laboratory and 




Old Wood-Turning Room 



the rearrangement of the roster these exercises are now carried on during the 
three regular terms. The exercises in this course now number forty-two, as tab- 
ulated on the preceding page. 

The inspection trips devised at the beginning of the Institute's course with 
a view to keeping the student in touch with the practical world and to develop 
his power of observation, have been continued under the guidance of one or more 
of the Professors on each trip. 

In 1880 the first distant inspection tours were made by the Class of 1881 
to Providence, Lowell, and Boston to the eastward, and Pittsburg, Johnstown. 



22 THE STEVENS INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY 

Altoona, and Philadelphia to the westward. Similar inspection trips have been 
conducted each year since, with slight variations as to the places visited, such 
as Hartford, Spring-field, Lynn, and Eall River on the eastward trip, and Sche- 
nectady, Niagara Falls, and Bethlehem, Pa., on the westward trip. 

A course of marine engineering was established under the direction of 
Mr. Clarence A. Carr, Assistant Engineer in the L^nited States Navy, in 1882, 
with a view to broadening the course of engineering. The course of study was 
designed to set forth the scientific principles of the propulsion of a ship by steam 
power, and the practical rules which regulate the construction of her engines. 
When Prof. Carr left in 1885 this course lost its identity, being merged with the 
Department of Experimental Mechanics and Shop-Work. 

In 1883 a Department of Applied Electricity was established. The work 
of this Department has constantly and rapidly de\-eloped, keeping pace with the 
vast strides that have lieen made in the practical application of electricity as a 
motive power. In 1903 the name was changed to the Department of Electrical 
Engineering. The work of this course begins with — 

— " a study of electrical measurements during the first term of the third year. During the 
second and third terms continuous currents and continuous-current machinery are studied. 
The fourth year is devoted to alternating currents and to alternating-current machin- 
ery. A course of lectures is given on the mathematical theory of alternating currents, and 
both the analytical and the graphical methods are taught. The students are prepared for 
this course by special instruction in complex quantities and in differential ecjuations, given 
in the Department of Mathematics. The theoretical work in electricity is supplemented by 
systematic laboratory practice in the electrical laboratory and in the dynamo-room, which 
are provided for this purpose with a large variety of apparatus and machinery." 

The laboratory course consists of thirty-nine distinct exercises calling for 
experiments, and the obtaining of data from which calculations are made and 
tabulated as in regular professional practice. 

While there is no separate course in electrical engineering a thorough 
training in electricity is given in conjunction with the course in mechanical engi- 
neering. The advisability of establishing a separate course has been carefully 
considered, and the conclusion reached that everything taught in the mechanical 
course is of direct value to the practising electrical engineer. The regular course 
in engineering is therefore broadened to include the necessary instruction in elec- 
tricity. The correctness of this plan is abundantly shown by the ability of our 
graduates to secure engagements in electrical establishments and by the number 
of such graduates now in prominent positions. 

In 1886 the importance of a more extended course in analytical chemistry, 
adapted to the special wants of the mechanical engineer, was recognized by the 
establishment of the Department of Analytical Chemistry, the work of which was 
accomplished entirely by laboratory practice. 



GROWTH OF THE INSTITUTE 



23 



Qualitative analysis was taken up during the second year ; and in the third 
year, after preliminary work in quantitative analysis, the determination of the 
percentages of the principal ingredients in the following substances comprised 
the regular laboratory work, namely, iron ore, copper ore, limestone, manganese 
ore, coal, alloys, lubricating oils, furnace gases, iron pyrites, and steel and cast 
iron. 

The second year was chiefly occupied with the subject of fuels, their com- 
position, preparation, and calorific powers — gases for illuminating and heating ; 




Electrical Instrument Laboratory 

then the fluxes, minerals, and ores used in iron, copper, lead, zinc, and tin smelt- 
ing. The properties of the metals commonly used, and the influence of impurities 
upon their strength and durability, were studied so far as the practical needs of the 
engineer are concerned. Einally, the description and management of furnaces, 
together with the chemical phenomena of smelting and extraction of ores, was 
taken up. These exercises were the foundation for the present laboratory course, 
which is now conducted as a part of the Department of Engineering Chemistry, 
established, after the death of Dr. Leeds, by merging the departments of Chemis- 
try and of Analytical Chemistry. 



24 THE STEVENS INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY 

In 1888 the course was further improved by the addition of the Depart- 
ment of Engineering Practice, in which the student was given instruction as to 
shop practice, management of workmen, etc. Dr. Coleman Sellers, who was ap- 
pointed to the new Chair, imparted this instruction in a series of lectures con- 
taining suggestions based upon his many years of practical experience in the 
building of machine tools, locomotives, etc. 

Prof. Sellers delivered his first lecture May 16, 1888. With the exception 
of one year, 1890, when he was in Europe in connection with the International 
Committee appointed to utilize the power of Niagara Falls, Prof. Sellers contin- 
ued to deliver a series of lectures each year until 1894. The following are the 
titles of some of the lectures delivered by him : " Drawing-Room Practice" ; 
" Transmission of Motion " ; " Observations Made in Europe on the Question 
of Water- Wheels " ; " Utihzation of the Power of Niagara " ; " Transmission of 
Power by Compressed Air " ; " The Machine-Shop " ; " Ball Bearings " ; " Arti- 
ficial Molding Sand " ; " Personal Conduct " ; " Value of Practice in Mathematics 
and Use of Exact Expressions " ; " Broadening die Field of Study Is Widening 
the Path of Life." 

In Lhis connection the London " Engineer " of July 15, 1892, in an article 
regarding Stevens Institute, states that — • 

— " the practical character of the training given is assured by the choice of the Professors. 
Thus, when we mention the name of Dr. Coleman Sellers as one of the lecturers on mechan- 
ical engineering, many experienced engineers will envy the students of this fortunate insti- 
tution their great advantages in having as a teacher a man of such varied and extensive 
practical experience." 

From time to time during the course special lecturers have been secured 
to address the students on engineering topics connected with their regular work. 

In 1888 Mr. G. L. Strong, of the Strong Locomotive Works, and Mr. J. 
M. Allen, President of the Hartford Steam Boiler Inspection & Insurance Co., 
delivered lectures. Mr. C. J. Field, M.E., has lectured several times, first in 1892 
on electric railroad equipment. In recent years Mr. J. W. Lieb, Jr., M.E., has 
lectured quite regularly to each Senior class on electrical subjects. Mr. W. D. 
Forbes, Col. E. A. Stevens, and Col. H. G. Prout have also given the undergrad- 
uates the benefit of their engineering experience. These lectures, along with others 
that have been delivered, but, unfortunately, not recorded, have been more or less 
informal, having been brought about by the efforts of a Department or by the 
Engineering Society. 

In 1896 and 1897 an official course of lectures on patent law was delivered 
to the Senior class by Mr. Richard A. Dyer, of the firm of Dyer & DriscoU, 
of New York, and also during the latter year a course of lectures on business 
methods was added. The latter dealt with the subjects of double-entry bookkeep- 
ing, banks and banking, and with the more general question of the engineer in his 
business as distinct from his professional relations. 



GROWTH OF THE INSTITUTE 25 

These lectures, introduced by Mr. A. C. Humphreys, were designed to im- 
part to the student a knowledge of those business methods which are essential to 
success in engineering work and in all lines of manufacture. They were as fol- 
lows : " Double-Entry Bookkeeping " by Mr. George Turnbull, Vice-President 
of the Guaranty Trust Co. of New York ; " Banks and Banking " by Mr. W. 
Sherrer, Manager of the New York Clearing-House. For several years preceding 
1903 the services of Mr. T. C. Roberts, an expert accountant, were secured to give 
instruction in business methods and bookkeeping. The above-mentioned lectures 
and instruction led to the establishment of the Department of Business Engineer- 
ing as a regular feature of the Institute's course in 1903, President Humphreys 
then taking personal charge of the Department. 

The development of the new features in the course of study as outlined 
above has been made possible in many instances by timely gifts of necessary funds 
and apparatus by friends of the Institute. 

First and foremost in supplying the smaller needs of the Institute, as he 
was in supplying the larger, as already mentioned under the title " Finance," 
comes otir late President, Henry Morton. From him and from others, including 
individuals largely numbered among oi:r Alumni, business houses, and graduating 
classes, have come valuable apparatus. 

The gifts from the graduating classes have been made by each man of the 
class contributing the deposit money left with the Treasurer at the time of enter- 
ing the Institute. These gifts have proved opportune and valuable in carrying on 
the Institute's work, and are as follows : 

Class of 1886, a Kelvin balance. 

Class of 1895, a lo-kilowatt Westinghouse two-phase converter and a 20-horse-power 
high-speed Payne engine. 

Class of 1896, a 2-horse-power S. K. C. two-phase induction motor. 

Class of 1897, aided by the Trustees and Faculty, Nash gas engine, directly con- 
nected to a 15-kilowatt electric generator. 

Class of 1898, two 5-kilowatt alternators. 

Class of 1899, a lo-horse-power Crocker- Wheeler motor-generator. 

Class of 1900, two 4-kilowatt phase changing transformers and one 7 J4 -horse-power 
three-phase General Electric induction motor. 

Class of 1901, metal-testing machine having a capacity of 100,000 pounds. 

Class of 1902, and W. D. Forbes & Co., Hoboken, N. J., Forbes engine compound 
high-speed, directly connected to a 25-kilowatt Sprague electric generator. 

Class of 1903, a large slate switchboard. 



SCHOLARSHIPS AND PRIZES 

In order to encourage ambitious young men who desire to pursue a course 
of study at the Institute, scholarships have been established at various times. 

A scholarship confers the privilege of attending the entire course of the 



26 THE STEVENS INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY 

Institute for four years, free of all charge for tuition, provided, of course, that the 
student holding the scholarship keeps up, in all cases, with the standard of pro- 
ficiency and good conduct required. 

The " Stevens School Scholarships," of which there are four, one being 
given each year to the graduate of the Stevens School who passes the best ex- 
amination at the end of the Spring Term, were established in 1877. At the same 
time three scholarships were founded for the benefit of the students of the public 
schools of Hoboken. In 1893 these three scholarships were made to include the 
Hoboken Academy, and in 1895 were further extended to include all the public 
schools in the county, pro\-iding the scholarships were not filled by students of the 
Hoboken schools. They have since been known as the " Hudson County Schools 
Scholarships." 

In addition to these scholarships six others have been established through 
the contributions already mentioned on p. 16. They are known as the " Morton 
Scholarship " ; " The American Railway Master Mechanics' Association Scholar- 
ships," of which there are four: and the " Harold Humphreys Scholarship." 

Prizes have also been awarded bv those interested in the various lines of the 
Institute's work, the first being that which is known as the Priestley Prize, in honor 
of the renowned discoverer of oxygen, and instituted in the year 1877 by means 
of funds contributed l)y Mr. \\". A\\ Shippen, j\Ir. S. B. Dod, President Henry 
Morton, and Prof. A. R. Leeds. " The income, amounting to $25, is annually be- 
stowed as a prize on the student who has most distinguished himself in the De- 
partment of Chemistry." This prize has been awarded to the following persons: 

John F. Kelly, '78 John Lyman Cox, '87 

William E. Jacoljs, '79 Arthur A. Fuller, '88 

Durand Woodman, "80 Alfred G. Mayer, '89 

Edward E. Magovern, "81 ' Henry Torrance, Jr., '90 

Wihner G. Cartwright, '82 . Johann M. Hansen, Jr., '91 

John B. Adger, '83 Geo. W. Colles, Jr., '94 

James Beatty, Jr., '84 Charles B. Peck, '96 

Otto Pfordte, '85 Henry Donald Tieman, '97 

J. Lester Woodbridge, '86 F. A. Welles, '98 

John A. McCulloch, '86 G. G. Hollins, '04 

William E. Quimby, '87 R. L. Penney, '04 

In 1882 Mr. AA^illiam A. Macy, of Hoboken, contributed $100, the proceeds 
of \\hich were to be awarded to that student, entering the Institute from the pub- 
lic schools of Hoboken, who had the best standing at the end of the Freshman 
year. In 1903 Mr. Macy increased his contribution to $250, and specified further 
that the prize should be awarded at the end of the Sophomore year instead of the 
Freshman year, provided the standing does not fall below 75. This prize was 
awarded to North MacLean in 1882, E. H. Kiernan in 1884, Embury MacLean 

1 The standing of Messrs. Edward E. Magovern and William T. Magruder was equal, and the award of 
prize, having been decided by lot, fell upon Mr. Magovern. 



GROWTH OF THE INSTITUTE 



27 



in 1885, W. H. Rogers, Jr., in 1889, F. C. Freeman in 1900, H. Koester in 1901, 
and to A. T. McAleer in 1902. 

Mr. E. G. Soltman, in 1884, offered a drawing-table as a prize to the mem- 
ber of the Junior class whose work was of superior excellence in the Department 
of Mechanical Drawing. This prize was continued for five years, during which 
time it was awarded to Henry Abbey, '85 ; Edwin J. Cook, '86 ; W. E. Parsons, 
'87; Arthur A. Fuller, '88; William J. Beers, '89. 

ATTENDANCE 

The following tabular statement will serve to show the growth of the In- 
stitute in point of attendance, number of graduates each year, etc. The second 
column includes all the Professors, Assistant Professors, and Instructors, who 



Table Showing Growth of Institute 



1871-72 
1S71-72 
1S71-72 
1872-73 
1S73-74 
1S74-75 
1875-76 
1876-77 
1877-78 
187S-79 
1879-S0 



1S84-85 
188S-S6 
18S6-87 

1SS8-89 
1889-90 
1890-91 
1891-92 
1892-93 
1893-94 
1894-95 
1895-96 
1896-97 
1897-98 
1898-99 



1901-02 
1902-03 
1903-04 



346 



IN THE Same 
Class in Successive 
Ykars 



II 


41.7 


22 


55- 


IS 


51-7 


9 


3S.I 


'9 


41-7 




50.0 


19 


76.0 


41 


85.2 




67.9 


33 


66.7 


30 


5'-7 


39 


73-1 


36 


61.0 


39 


67.2 


4b 


7«.9 


39 


65.0 


43 


6,. I 


39 


65.0 


47 


63.4 


63 


57.8 


tl 


73-3 


76.3 


53 


75-7 


54 


69.2 


40 


64.5 



1 In the year 1874-75 there were twelve "Partial Students;" that is, students who were 
taking special subjects, but not pursuing the course for the degree of M.E. During the year 
1875-76 there were ten such students. 

2 The figures in these two columns are based on the number that were regularly graduated, 
and not on the number given in the " Senior " column. 



28 THE STEVENS INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY 

have been or are engaged in class-room work. In addition to these a number 
of assistants have been engaged constantly since 1875 i^^ giving manual instruc- 
tion in the mechanical laboratory and workshops. Their number has grown from 
two in 1875 to ten at the present time (1904). 

In connection with that part of the table giving the " Numbers in the 
Same Class in Successive Years," President Morton made some interesting de- 
ductions which were published in the " Stevens Indicator," January, 1896, p. 64, 
and which are quoted below : 

" When the Institute opened in 1871 we had the following problem to face: 

" To educate in four years, from such material as we could secure from the pre- 
paratory schools of the day, young men who, when graduated, should have information 
enough to make them useful in positions involving some responsibility in the machine-shops 
of the country. 

" To accomplish this with ease to the student, it would have been necessary that he 
should have been considerably in advance of those entering ordinary colleges in his prepa- 
ration, so that he might have time, during his four years' course, for all the technical studies 
required to make him a Mechanical Engineer in fact as well as in name. 

" Students so far prepared, however, were not to be found except in the advanced 
classes of other colleges, and accordingly we were obliged to compromise matters and place 
our requirements for admission low enough to let in the best graduates of preparatory 
schools, and then do our best to carry these imperfectly prepared students through the re- 
quisite curriculum. 

" The result of this, as might be expected, was that many dropped out and our 
percentage of graduates was low. For example, in 1877, the graduating class represented 
but 29 per cent of those entering in 1873. It is, however, interesting to notice that every 
one of those who survived this severe struggle for existence has shown himself to be a man 
of exceptional ability in his professional career. 

"As time went on, however, a constant pressure was kept up in the direction of rais- 
ing the standard of requirements for admission, and this was most effectively done by the es- 
tablishment of the Stevens School as a Preparatory Department, in which students might 
be adequately prepared for admission to the Institute course as well as for colleges giving 
classical courses. 

" Time was of course required both for the preparation of students entering the 
Stevens School and for the growth of its reputation, so that the number coming from it 
should constitute a sufficient proportion of our class to show its effect. Thus, though the 
School was opened in 1873, it was not until 1880 that it furnished a notable proportion of 
our entering class. In that year it sent us thirteen students, and the result at once appeared 
in the rise of the percentage of graduates from 40 per cent to 56 per cent. 

"Again, in 1887, a fresh impulse was given to the work of the Stevens School by 
the erection of a new building for its accommodation, which enabled it to increase its own 
numbers and thus to furnish us with a larger proportion of entering students. The effect 
of this was seen in 1888, when we received 44 from the Stevens School, and our percent- 
age of graduates rose to 60 per cent from about 50 per cent. 

" Of course there are many other reasons, besides a failure to keep up with the 
studies of the course, which withdraw students from a class prior to graduation. Sickness, 
change of residence, financial conditions, and sometimes tempting offers of employment, have 
withdrawn many able and promising students before they reached the end of the course; 



GROWTH OF THE INSTITUTE 29 

but as the statistics show, and as I know from numerous individual instances, the control- 
hng element is an adequate preparation, combined, of course, with a reasonable concentra- 
tion of effort and avoidance of bad influences. 

" It is not necessary that a young man should be a genius to make a successful en- 
gineer. I could point out among our graduates many who were by no means brilliant schol- 
ars, but who were well prepared and faithful to their work, who are now occupying such 
positions as should satisfy the ambition of any reasonable man. 

" There are a few other points which it may be worth while to notice. For ex- 
ample, the class of '95 entered in 1891, 71 strong, and at the end of their first year had lost but 
10 of their number, say 14 per cent, while the next class, that of '96, entering 109 in num- 
ber, lost in the first year 30, or more than 27 per cent, — in other words, nearly a double 
percentage. 

" The reason of this is not far to seek if the facts are known. 

" In 1 89 1 the applicants for admission numbered over 100, but, our accommodation 
being limited, only the best among the applicants were admitted, and more than 30 were 
rejected, among whom were many who were sufficiently prepared to have been admitted 
had there been room. 

■' In 1892, arrangements had been made to divide the classes into two sections, and 
thus double our accommodations; as a result of this, of the 130 who applied and were ex- 
amined all were admitted who fairly met the requirements, and there was no such prelim- 
inary sifting as had been necessary in 1891. 

" The sifting in the first year, however, brought the class of '96 into the same con- 
dition of efficiency as the class of '95, and after this the losses were substantially alike in each. 

" During the first ten years of the Institute there were considerable and irregular 
fluctuations in the average ratios of graduates and also in the actual number of students; 
but these fluctuations do not afford any sound basis for deduction, because they resulted in 
part from the small number, which gave a high proportionate value to small accidental 
variations, and because during this period the Institute was in a formative state as to its 
requirements, course, and the reputation by which desirable students were attracted. What 
the figures of this period do show when compared with those of later years is that there 
has been a decided improvement in the proportion of ' finished product ' to ' raw material,' 
and this in spite of the fact that in consequence of the large number of engineering schools 
established during this quarter-century we no longer draw so many especially able students 
from distant points throughout the country." 



THE FACULTY 

For the vast detail of the course of study, as subsequently evolved and 
pursued, there was the original plan Avhich has already been quoted. This plan, 
the execution of which has proved it to be most efficient, was carefully super- 
vised and extended by the late President Morton. 

The Department of Physics was organized in 1871 by Prof. Alfred M. 
Mayer, Ph.D. The Department of Mechanical Engineering was organized by 
Robert H. Thurston, A.M., C.E., in 1870; and as there was not at that time, or 
for a number of years afterward, special departments of Experimental Mechanics 
and Shop-^Vork, of Tests, and of Engineering Practice, the work in this Depart- 
ment covered a much more extensive field than at present. 



30 THE STEVENS INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY 

Lieut. -Col. H. A. Hascall, who was Professor of Mathematics at West, 
Point MiHtary Academy, was secured early in the year 1871 to organize and take 
charge of the Department of Mathematics ; but when the Institute opened in Sep- 
tember, Prof. Hascall's health would not permit of his assuming the work, and 
Mr. Richard H. Buell, of New Yoi'k, was secured as temporary Instructor. A few 
months later Prof. Hascall undertook to assume the duties of this Department, but 
was soon compelled to abandon the work, and again the Department was under 
temporary management until the end of the college year. During the summer 
of 1872 Prof. De Volson Wood, C.E., then Professor of Civil Engineering at the 
University of Michigan, was secured to organize and conduct the work of this 
Department, and at the opening of the second college year in 1872 assumed the 
Chair. 

Prof. C. W. MacCord laid down the course in mechanical drawing. Prof. 
Albert R. Leeds organized the course in theoretical and practical chemistry. The 
course in languages was organized by Prof. Chas. F. Kroeh, and the course in 
belles-lettres by Prof. Edward Wall. 

Additions to the Faculty, as it was thus originally constituted, were made 
from time to time as the course of studies was extended and modified and the at- 
tendance of students increased. These additions to the Faculty, and also the 
changes due to resignations and to other causes, follow herewith in chronological 
order. 

In 1879 James E. Denton (M.E. "75) took temporary charge of the De- 
partment of Engineering, and of the Mechanical or Testing Laboratory, for more 
than a year during the continued illness of Prof. Thurston. At the end of Mr. 
Denton's temporary charge the Department of Experimental Mechanics and Shop- 
Work was organized in 1880 and 1881, and in 1882 he was made Professor of 
Experimental Mechanics and Shop-Work. 

In the year 1881 Adam Riesenberger (M.E. '76) was appointed Instruc- 
tor in the Department of Mechanical Drawing, and in 1887 was made Assistant 
Professor. 

In the year 1882 Prof. Wood received the assistance of Clarence A. Carr, 
who then came to Stevens and established a course of Marine Enginering, of 
which he was Professor, besides being an Instructor in Mathematics. Mr. Carr 
was Assistant Engineer in the United States Navy, and took up this work under 
leave of absence from the Navy Department. 

Owing to the advance which had been made in the application of electricity 
to engineering construction, a special Department of Applied Electricity was in- 
stituted in 1883 through the generosity of President Morton, and Dr. William 
E. Geyer was made its head. 

In 1885 Prof. Thurston accepted a call from Cornell University to take 
charge of the Sibley College of Engineering, then organized, and Prof. De Volson 
Wood, who had been in charge of the Department of Mathematics and Mechanics, 



GROWTH OF THE INSTITUTE 31 

was transferred to the vacant Chair of Mechanical Engineering. At this time, 
also, Prof. J. Burkitt Webb was appointed to the Chair of Mathematics and Me- 
chanics which was made vacant by the transfer of Prof. Wood to the Chair of 
Mechanical Engineering. In 1886 William H. Bristol (M.E. '84) was appointed 
Instructor in Mathematics, and in 1887 became Assistant Professor. 

A division- of the work in the Department of Chemistry occurred in 1886, 
Prof. Leeds retaining the Chair of Chemistry, and Thos. B. Stillman, Ph.D., tak- 
ing the Chair of Analytical Chemistry. 

Prof. D. S. Jacobus (M.E. '84), who was an assistant in charge of Mold- 
ing and Blacksmithing from 1884 to 1886, was made Instructor during the latter 
year, and in 1887 became Assistant Professor of Experimental Mechanics and 
Shop-Work. 

The Chair of Engineering Practice was created in 1888 and was filled by 
Prof. Coleman Sellers, E.D., with a view to establishing a course of lectures on 
the Practice of Engineering to be delivered during each year, after the plan adopt- 
ed in medical schools and known as clinical instruction. 

In the year 1889 Johannes H. Cuntz, C.E., (M.E. '87), and William J. 
Beers (M.E. '89), were appointed Graduate Assistants, and they carried on the 
work of instruction in the departments of Drawing and Analytical Chemistry 
until the year 1892. Harry D. King (M.E. '92) was appointed Graduate Assist- 
ant in 1892 and occupied the position one year. In 1891 Robert M. Anderson 
(M.E. '87) was appointed Instructor, taking charge of the calculation of tests 
during the Supplementary Term, and later of other branches of the work. 

In 1892, when measures were taken to relieve Prof. MacCord from giv- 
ing personal attention to the lower classes, and to enable him to devote his entire 
attention to the two higher classes, Prof. Riesenberger was placed in full 
charge of the Ereshman and Sophomore classes in drawing. Prof. Bristol had 
charge of the same classes in mathematics. On account of an increased number 
of students in the entering class in 1893 it was divided into two sections, Robert 
M. Anderson being appointed Assistant Professor of Applied Mathematics. 

In 1892 Samuel D. Graydon (M.E. "75) was appointed Assistant Profes- 
sor of Mechanical Drawing, and a year later, when the Ereshman and Sophomore 
classes were divided into two sections, assumed charge of one section of each. He 
also assisted Prof. MacCord in the work with the two higher classes. Geo. L. 
Manning (M.E. '91) was appointed Assistant Professor of Physics and Chemis- 
try, dividing his time between these two departments. 

In the summer of 1893 Franklin DeR. Furman (M.E. '93) was appoint- 
ed Assistant in Mechanical Drawing and was assigned to the Freshman and So- 
phomore classes. He also assisted Prof. Bristol for two years in the surveying- 
exercises. In the same year Prof. Kroeh received the assistance of A. R. Lawton, 
A.M , who was at that time made Instructor of Languages. In 1895 Morgan E. 
Craft (M.E. '95) was appointed Assistant to Prof. Leeds. 



32 THE STEVENS INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY 

For a number of years the work of the Department of AppHed Electricity 
required the services of an assistant, and in 1892 Horace S. Verley was appointed, 
and was succeeded two years later by G. M. Maynard, who remained one year. 
In 1895 Albert F. Ganz (M.E. '95) was appointed Instructor to assist Dr. Geyer 
in this Department. 

The deaths of Prof. Wood and of Prof. Mayer, which occurred in 1897, 
created . vacancies in the chairs of Mechanical Engineering and of Physics. 
Prof. Denton was appointed to succeed Prof. Wood, with the title of Professor 
of Mechanical Engineering and Shop- Work. The work in Physics was, however, 
divided. Dr. Geyer took charge of General Physics, together with Applied Elec- 
tricity, and Prof. Jacobus was appointed Professor of Experimental Mechanics 
and Engineering Physics. At the same time Prof. Anderson was transferred from 
the Department of Mathematics to the Department of Experimental Mechanics 
and Engineering Physics, with the title of Assistant Professor, and Frederick L. 
Pryor (M.E. '97) was appointed Instructor in Mathematics. 

In 1897 the title of Mr. Ganz was changed from Instructor in Applied 
Electricity to Assistant Professor of Applied Electricity and General Physics, 
and W. I. Thomson (M.E. '97) was appointed Instructor in Applied Electricity. 

When Prof. Anderson severed his connection with the Institute in 1898 
to take up professional engineering work, he was succeeded by Mr. Pryor, who 
was appointed Instructor in Experimental Mechanics and Engineering Physics. 
In 190 1 Mr. Pryor 's title was advanced to that of Assistant Professor in the 
same Department. 

In 1899 the titles of Prof. Riesenberger and Prof. Bristol were changed 
from Assistant Professor to Professor, and Mr. Furman was advanced from In- 
structor to Assistant Professor in the Department of Mechanical Drawing. 

The instructorship in the Department of Languages, which became va- 
cant in 1897, Mr. A. R. Lawton resigning, was not filled until 1899, when Mr. 
Charles W. Clayton was appointed. 

At this time, also, a change was made in the Department of Drawing. 
Prof. Graydon's work with the Juniors and Seniors was assigned to Prof. Fur- 
man, who also continued to give a part of his time to the Freshman and Sopho- 
more classes. On the other hand Prof. Graydon's entire time was then given 
to the Freshman and Sophomore classes. A year later the appointment of E. R. 
Knapp (M.E. '97) as Instructor in the Department enabled Prof. Furman to de- 
vote his time to assisting Prof. MacCord in the two upper classes. 

Mr. Thomson resigned his position as Instructor in Applied Electricity in 
1900. and Wm. J. Moore (M.E. '00) was appointed to fill the vacancy. In the 
fall of 1900 the Faculty membership was further increased : R. M. McKenzie, 
Ph.D., was appointed to assist Prof. Leeds in his lectvu-es and class-room work, 
and Prof. Stillman in the laboratory work; and Charles O. Gunther (M.E. '00) 
was appointed Instructor in Mathematics to assist Prof. Bristol. 



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33 



After the death of Dr. Leeds, which occurred in 1902, the departments 
of Chemistry and of Analytical Chemistry were combined and placed in charge of 
Prof. Stillraan. Dr. McKenzie w^as advanced from Instructor to Assistant Pro- 
fessor of Chemistry. 

In 1902 Prof. MacCord's title was changed from Professor of Mechanical 
Drawing to Professor of Mechanical Drawing and Designing, and Prof. Fur- 
man's title, from Assistant Professor to Associate Professor in these subjects. 




One of the Enlarged Drawing Room.-- 



Upon the death of President Morton in 1902, Alexander C. Humphreys, 
(M.E. '81) was, at the request of the Faculty and Alumni of Stevens Institute, 
unanimously elected President of Stevens Institute of Technology by the Board 
of Trustees. President Humphreys entered upon his duties in September, 1902. 

The lectures in Physics, which had been given by President Morton up to 
the time of his death, fell naturally to Dr. Geyer, who in addition to this was 
called upon to organize a laboratory course in Physics for the Sophomore year. 
In order to give the necessary attention to this work. Dr. Geyer was, at his own 



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THE STEVENS INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY 



request, relieved of the work in Applied Electricity, and was made Professor of 
Physics. Prof. Ganz was given charge of the work in the Electrical Department. 
In the spring of 1903 Clifford B. Le Page (M.E. '02) was engaged as Assistant 
in Physics to help Dr. Geyer. 

In the summer of 1903 Prof. Denton was relieved of the supervision 
of the courses in Shop- Work, the same being assigned to Prof. Pryor. Prof. 
Charles O. Gunther was transferred to the Drawing Department, assisting in 
the work of the Freshman and Sophomore classes. Louis A. Martin, Jr., (M.E. 
'00), was engaged as Assistant in Mathematics. Francis J. Pond, Ph.D., was 
appointed Assistant Professor of Engineering Chemistry to succeed Dr. R. M. 




New Wood-Working Room in East Basemeni 



McKenzie, resigned. In the fall of 1903 Prof. Pryor took temporary charge of 
the Department of Engineering Practice during the continued absence of Prof. 
Denton. At the same time William A. Shoudy (M.E. '99) was engaged as In- 
structor in the Department of Experimental Engineering, and H. W. Johnson 
(M.E. '03) as Instructor in the Department of Mechanical Drawing and De- 
signing. 

Of the assistants in the Department of Shop-Work mention should be 
made of those whose connection with that Department has continued for a con- 
siderable length of time. Mr. Matthew C. Lackland, who is the Supervising Me- 
chanic of the Shops, came to the Institute in 1876. Mr. Louis T. Becker, whose 



GROWTH OF THE INSTITUTE 



35 



connection with the Institute has been in various capacities, entered the service of 
the Institute in 1873. He now has charge of the boilers, engines, etc., in the 
capacity of engineer. Mr. Charles BischofF, who has charge of the instruction in 
carpentry, wood-turning, and pattern-making, has been an assistant in this Depart- 
ment for about fourteen years. 

Mr. James W. Denton instructed in blacksmithing and molding for ten 

years tip to the time of 
his death, which occur- 
red in 1900. Mr. Sam- 
uel Slingerland, who is 
now in charge of the 
machine-shop, and Mr. 
Irwin Stephens, now in 
charge of blacksmith- 




ing and molding, each 
came to the Institute 
in 1892. Mr. George 
W. Allen has been em- 
ployed as fireman since 
1 89 1. Messrs. Becker, 
Bischoff, Slingerland, 
Stephens, and Allen have also acted as assistants in conducting the Junior and 
Senior exercises in the Department of Experimental Mechanics. 



Forge and Molding-Room, with Foundry in Rear 



ALTERATIONS TO MAIN BUILDING, AND NEW BUILDINGS 

The original plan of the building called for a main structure 180 feet long 
and 44 feet deep, with three projecting wings; the entire plan being similar in 
form to the letter E. The east and west wings are each 30 feet wide and 60 and 
80 feet long respectively. The central wing is 50 feet wide and 80 feet long. 



36 



THE STEVENS INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY 



The building was constructed in 1870, as planned, with the exception of 
the east wing, which was added in 1872 to provide room for the Stevens School 
then organized on its present basis. Since that date two small additions have been 
made to the main building and numerous alterations made in the interior, such 
as the rearrangement and enlargement of rooms by the remo^-al of hallways, par- 
titions, etc.. the most important of which will be briefly referred to. 

In 1878 the 



central wing, which 
had been used as a 
lecture-hall for tech- 
nical and popular 
lectures, was con- 
\ erted into a gymna- 
sium. It was used 
as such until 1881, 
when it was fitted up 




to accommodate the 
Workshop, which 
was then removed 
from the east base- 
ment of the main 
building. 

In 1888 the 
east wing was xa.- 
cated by the Stevens 
School, which then 
moved into its new 
building adjoining. 

The room thus secured was apportioned iDCtween the Department of Applied 
Electricity (two floors), whose laboratory work had been conducted in the gal- 
lery that had been built over the shop in the central wing, and the Department 
of Applied Mathematics (top floor). On May i, 1888, a small fire occurred 
in the private laborator}^ of Dr. Leeds on the top floor of the west wing, but was 
soon extinguished by the municipal Eire Department with the assistance of the 
undergraduates. The loss by fire and water amounted to about $700. 



Front and Rear Views of New Auditorium, Main 
OF the Institute 



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37 



In 1889 an extension (26 x 39 feet) was added to the rear of the central 
wing to accommodate the foundry and blacksmith work, which was then re- 
moved from the basement to make place for the installation of new engines, 
machinery, etc., and provide room for carrying on the students' mechanical labora- 
tory work and the work of the Department of Tests. The second floor of the 
extension was occupied by Mr. Hawkridge, instrument-maker, who then moved 
from the second floor of the machine-shop. 




The Main Building With Terrace Removed, Showing Enlarged Basement Windows 
FOR New Machine-Shop 

A two-story building, costing $6,500, was erected in 1893 between the cen- 
tral and east wings, to accommodate the heavier apparatus of the Electrical Lab- 
oratory on the ground floor, and the Department of Languages on the second 
floor. The change in the latter Department, which had occupied one of the large 
rooms on the top floor of the main building, was made to give necessary space 
to the Department of Drawing, which has since utilized the entire third floor. 
During the summer of 1902 several partitions were removed on this floor, thus 
giving larger and better-lighted rooms. At the same time this entire floor was 



38 THE STEVENS INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY 

completely equipped with adjustable fixtures and lamps for illumination by elec- 
tric light. 

With this brief record of alterations to the original building, met princi- 
pally through the generosity of President Morton, to accommodate the growing 
demands, we come to the first new building, erected by the gift of Mr. Andrew 
Carnegie in 1901, and endowed by him, as stated on pp. 14, 15. This building was 
given and erected for the special purpose of a laboratory of engineering, to pro- 
vide convenient and modern accommodations for a large amount of machinery 
and numerous engines, etc., that had been crowded in the basement of the main 
building. 

The Carnegie Laboratory, in addition to providing for the above apparatus 
on the first two floors, each having a floor space of 50 x 97.5 feet, contains two 
large lecture-rooms on the third floor, being 42.6 x 50 feet and 50 x 50 feet re- 
spectively. 

The relief afforded by the Carnegie Laboratory of Engineering, by taking 
from the main building and housing entirely the Department of Experimental 
Mechanics and Engineering Physics (now the Department of Experimental En- 
gineering), helped largely, but not sufficiently, to overcome the crowded condi- 
tions of the main building, especially in the matter of class-rooms available for 
properly carrying on the standard work of the course. So serious had this prob- 
lem become, that President Humphreys, upon his accession to office in the fall of 
1902, felt constrained to take up the subject at once by vigorously petitioning the 
Alumni to complete the work undertaken by them a number of years ago in pro- 
viding an Alumni Building for the Departments of Chemistry and Physics. The 
fimd for this building, largely through the generous aid of our late President 
Morton, had grown to $60,000, and at the time of this publication it amounts 
to about $90,000, the increase being due to the efforts of President Humphreys. 
Plans have been decided upon, and the construction of the building will proba- 
bly soon be begun. 

The basement of the main building was improved in the summer of 1903, 
for use as a workshop, by removing the terrace in front of the Institute and 
enlarging the basement Avindows. The machinery was moved from the central 
wing of the main building to the new quarters, and the room occupied by the old 
machine-shop was entirely reconstructed as an auditorium which, with its main 
floor and balcony, will comfortably seat 700 people ; it was planned for the purpose 
of accommodating mass-meetings of the students, popular or technical lectures, 
and meetings of technical associations convening in this section. It was used for 
the first time December 3, 1903, when the American Society of Mechanical En- 
gineers held one of their regular sessions at the Institute. 

In improving the basement, as mentioned above, the large west room was 
fitted up for the execution of a number of metal-working exercises, for which 
there are provided 12 lathes, 3 planers, 3 drill presses, 3 drilling-machines, 3 



GROWTH OF THE INSTITUTE 



39 



shapers, etc. The large east room is equipped with 24 wood-lathes, a wood-planer, 
a circular and a band saw, and work-benches for 24 students. The space between 
the metal- and wood-working rooms has been cleared and is now used as a stock 
and tool room. 

The extension which was built to the central wing of the main building 
in 1889 to accommodate the foundry and forge work was refitted in the fall of 
1903 by a new equipment of 10 down-draught forges in the centre of the room, 
operated by a motor-driven blower and exhauster. The sides of the room were 
arranged for conducting the exercises in molding. The course is planned so that 
the molding and forging exercises do not take place simultaneously. At the 
time these changes were made an addition was built. 25 x 17 feet, in which was 




Electrical Laboratory — Dynamo Room 



erected a half-ton Collieau cupola. The addition contains also a core oven and ac- 
commodations for exercises in core-making. The floor over the forge-room was 
equipped with vises for steamfitters and machinists, and other apparatus for the 
course in steamfitting and vise-work. 

A new building which will be erected within a short time, as a part of the 
Institute property, is a dormitory on a plot of ground (196X 100 feet) located 
at the southwest corner of River and Seventh streets, Hoboken. This property. 



40 THE STEVENS INSTTFUTE OF TECHNOLOGY 

which has heretofore constituted a part of the private grounds of Castle Point, is 
the gift of Mr. Robert L. and Col. E. A. Stevens, as mentioned on p. i6. At 
present River Street ends at the high ground where this property begins, but the 
street will be extended and graded. 

STEVENS SCHOOL 

The history of the Stevens School as a useful adjunct to the Stevens In- 
stitute begins with the year 1872. At that time the requirements for entrance 
to the Institute were in advance of the courses in the preparatory schools from 
which the Institute drew its students. To meet this situation the Trustees of the 
latter institution assumed control of a school in Hoboken known under another 
name, built the east wing to the Institute, and there established the Stevens High 
School, which name was changed in 1888 to Stevens School. 

The School occupied the east wing of the Institute until 1888, when it was 
removed to the large and commodious quarters in the new building which had 
been erected on the northeast portion of the grounds, immediately behind the 
Institute building. The new building was erected at a cost of $50,000. It has a 
frontage of 86 feet on River Street and has a depth of 69 feet. The building is 
constructed on what is known as the " slow-burning mill system of construction," 
which renders it as nearly fireproof as possible and also gives a " deadened " floor, 
which is so desirable in a building of this kind. The building is ventilated by 
means of an exhaust fan in a ventilating shaft in the roof which connects with all 
rooms. 

Although the Stevens School is the Academic Department of the Stevens 
Institute, its course of study is by no means limited to the scientific branches. Its 
classical course is thoroughly complete, and fits young men for entrance to any 
university or college. Its English and scientific course is particularly designed 
thoroughly to prepare young men who wish to pursue a course of study at the 
Stevens Institute and similar scientific and technical schools, as well as to give 
those who desire to enter business a general education and render them more or 
less familiar with the elementary principles that underlie the various mechanisms 
and mechanical and scientific systems which are being so rapidly developed and 
introduced into the home and the office. The close relations of the School with 
the Institute give it peculiar advantages in carrying out a course of study of this 
kind, it having at all times access to the apparatus of the Institute for experiment- 
al work in its own laboratory. 

The course of .study covers a period of four years, whether it be in the 
English, scientific, or classical course, and such students as are of good moral char- 
acter and can pass a satisfactory examination in geograph}^ elements of English 
grammar, and arithmetic are allowed to enter the lowest class. 

The Stevens School has won an enviable reputation for the high regard 



TWENTY-FIFTH ANNIVERSARY CELEBRATION 41 

it has for the moral and physical training as well as the mental training of the 
youth under its charge. The School has been a success from the start, and has en- 
joyed a steady and satisfactory growth from 33 at the beginning to 309 in 1904. 
Rev. Edward Wall, A.M., who was appointed Principal at the time of its organ- 
ization, has continued in that office to the present day. In 1887 Dr. F. L. Seven- 
oak was appointed Assistant Principal. 



THE TWENTY-FIFTH ANNIVERSARY CELEBRATION OF THE 

FOUNDING OF THE STEVENS INSTITUTE 

OF TECHNOLOGY 1 

The twenty-fifth anniversary of the founding of the Institute was fittingly 
observed on February 18 and 19, 1897. 

The celebration was in every sense a very gratifying success, and was the 
means of bringing together a larger number of the Alumni of the Institute than 
had been assembled upon any previous occasion. Many came from distant points 
to participate in the festivities and to manifest their attachment to their Alma 
Mater. The occasion was indeed a memorable one in the history of the Institute, 
and successful beyond the expectations of even those who were acquainted with 
the full details of the programme to be presented. 

THE BANQUET 

The festivities began with a banquet at the Hotel Waldorf, New York, on 
Thursday evening, February 18, which was attended by nearly three hundred 
persons. 

Many of the graduates present had not met their classmates or fellow Alumni 
and Professors since graduation, so that the reunion which took place in the recep- 
tion-rooms for an hour or more before the assemblage sat down to the table was 
a very pleasant feature of the evening's entertainment. 

Each guest was presented by President Morton with a handsome sovivenir 
in the form of a pamphlet, beautifully illustrated, containing a poem, dedicated 
to Mrs. Martha B. Stevens, entitled " Per Aspera ad Astra," the motto of the Ste- 
vens family, which was written by President Morton for the occasion. (See page 
42.) Handsome menu cards were provided, prepared from a design by Mr. L. D. 
Wildman (M.E. '90). The decorations of the banquet hall were elaborate and 
tasteful, and the room presented a most charming scene when the guests, a con- 
siderable number of whom were ladies, were all seated. 

The speaking began a little after 10 o'clock and lasted nearly two hours. 

^ This account of the Twenty-fifth Anniversary is largely condensed from the very complete description 
given in the "Stevens Indicator" for April, 1897. 



42 THE STEVENS INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY 

Mr. S. Bayard Dod, President of the Board of Trustees, presided, and in- 
troduced the speakers with remarks that were very happily chosen. 
Toasts were responded to as follows : 

" Our Founder " Hon. Abram S. Hewitt 

"The Ironmasters of the United States" Mr. Andrew Carnegie 

" Our Ironclad Navy " Commodore George W. Melville, U.S.N. 

"American Citizenship" Rt. Rev. Henry C. Potter 

"Railroads and Steamboats of the United States". . Mr. J. Elfreth Watkins 

"The Alumni" Mr. E. P. Roberts, M.E. 

" The Faculty " President Henry Morton 

Mr. Hewitt, whose accjuaintance with the Stevens family extended over a 
period of more than sixty years, having known not only " Our Founder," but 
also his father John and his brother Robert L., spoke more particularly of per- 
sonal reminiscences, and as such his remarks form an interesting and valuable 
supplement to the record of the Stevens family as written by Mr. T. C. Martin, 
E.E., and published in Book II. Mr. Hewitt's response to the toast will be found 
at page 95. 

Commodore, later Rear-Admiral, Melville, U.S.N., and now retired, and 
Mr. J. Elfreth Watkins, Curator of the National Museum at Washington, were, 
because of their official positions, peculiarly qualified to speak with authority of 
the work of the engineers of the Stevens family. Their responses to their re- 
spective toasts, so far as they relate to the Stevens family, are reproduced at 
pages 99, 1 01. 

At the conclusion of the toast to " Our Founder," President Morton was 
called upon to read the poem mentioned above. It is presented herewith : 

" Per Aspera ad Astra " 

What are those stars by rugged pathway gained ? 

And what the road by which they are attained? 

Those stars are the rewards, the crowns, the goals, 

The final dwelHngs of heroic souls, 

Of those whose life-long toil of hand and mind 

Was freely given to uplift mankind, 

To gather knowledge and develop arts, 

To build up nations and make happy hearts, 

Increasing comfort, lightening human toil, 

From conquered nature winning richest spoil ; 

Guarding the weak from the encroaching strong, 

Rewarding virtue and preventing wrong. 

On such as these are starry crowns bestowed, 

For such as these the stars are fit abode. 

Of the rough paths which lead to such rewards 
Examples every noble life affords. 



TWENTY-FIFTH ANNIVERSARY CELEBRATION 43 

The martyr gives his life, the hero bleeds, 
The patriot strives with noble words and deeds. 
The moral teachers and reformers give 
Their lives of labor that the truth may live, 
Students of nature work to age from youth 
To bring to light some hidden gem of truth. 
And countless laborers suffer, strive, refrain, 
That from their work their fellow men may gain. 

Nor need we travel far to other climes. 
Or instance heroes of the classic times. 
To find examples fitted to inspire 
Loving respect and emulous desire. 
The name of Stevens calls at once to mind 
Three lives of willing labor, which combined. 
Or singly, illustrate the upward road 
Which straight ascends to that star-decked abode. 
To affluence born, and tempted thus to give 
First thought to self and but for self to live, 
Each one in turn, and all, this test withstood. 
And gave their means and thought to general good. 

The rapid steamer joining strand to strand. 
The yet more rapid train across the land, 
The iron rail on which the swift trains run. 
The shell adapted to the long-range gun, 
The ironclad steamer ramming down the foe, 
With monster cannon loaded from below, 
Those links which bind the world with bands of peace. 
Those arms which in the end will make wars cease, 
All these and many others, which have lent 
So largely to the world's development. 
Grew from the Stevens' lives, so richly fraught 
With liberal outlay and ingenious thought. 

And at the last what can we fitly say 
Of him whose latest work we hail to-day? 
Who, as a closing act of such career 
As we have painted, sowed the seed which here 
We see developed into fields of grain 
Loading with harvests many a distant plain. 

Our Founder planted that which year by year ^ 

Has sent its fruitage outward far and near. 
Till now there is no region where the sun. 
Uprising, does not shine at least on one 
Of Stevens' graduates doing useful work 
In turning to good ends the powers which lurk 
In force and matter, carrying far and near 
The fair fame of the Stevens engineer, 
And adding always to that special art 
Which our good Founder had so much at heart. 



44 THE STEVENS INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY 

For him the crowning stars long since were won, 
For us they still are to be gazed upon. 
Before us still extends the rugged road 
Which must be climbed to reach the blessed abode. 
On his example let us fix our eyes, 
And, following in his footsteps, ever rise; 
Scale each obstruction which our pathway bars. 
And win at last our home among the stars. 

Mr. Carnegie, in responding to his toast, " The Ironmasters of The United 
States," referring to the remarks of Mr. Hewitt, said in part : 

" I have been thinking, while he spoke, that if he had just continued a little longer, 
as only his modesty prevented him from doing, he might have spoken of the monument 
that the Stevens family selected as the best means of perpetuating their name ; and I say 
that the men who have selected a seat of learning — Harvard, Yale, Cornell, Cooper, 
Pratt, Stevens — are the men who have chosen the means which will keep them in the 
history of their country and of the world longer and more prominently than any other 
means which a man can devise. 

"And more than this, they have chosen a living monument, with a soul in it, — 
something that continues to perform useful work, something which shows us that they de- 
sired more to benefit succeeding generations than to perpetuate their personal fame. . 

"Any celebration of this anniversary of Stevens would certainly be incomplete if 
a representative of the iron and steel industry were not permitted publicly to acknowledge 
his obligation to that Institute, to express his gratitude to its founder. You have only to 
look at your list of graduates and see the number that are now in charge of important en- 
terprises, to know what Stevens has done. It is impossible to enter any of the great es- 
tablishments without meeting a Stevens graduate." 

President Dod, of the Board of Trtistees, in announcing the toast, " The 
Factihy," read a letter from President Morton, in which he presented one thou- 
sand shares of Texas Pacific Railroad stock to the Alumni Building Fund. The 
letter is as follows : 

S. Bayard Dod, Esq., 

President of Board of Trustees of the Stc7'cns Institute of Technology. 
Dear Sir, — 

I send you herewith certificates for one thousand shares of stock of the 
Texas Pacific Railroad Co., which I desire to present to the Board of Trustees, to be 
held until their appreciated value, with such other funds as may be devoted to that pur- 
pose, may be adequate for the erection and maintenance of the proposed new building gen- 
erally referred to as the "Alumni Building." 

I have put my gift into this particular form as an example or suggestion to others 
having the interests of the Institute at heart, that they might, when able to do so, present 
to the Institute some form of property having a prospective value in advance of its market 
price, — such, for example, as the stock of newly organized or reorganized companies of a 
substantial character. 

The needs of the Institute are rather for the future than the present. Her work, 
as heretofore and at present conducted, can be carried on with the means already in her 



TWENTY-FIFTH ANNIVERSARY CELEBRATION 45 

hands ; but for the extensions which should be made in the future, in order that she should 
maintain her leading position, larger accommodations and increased revenue will be re- 
quired. 

There are also many cases in which our Alumni or others could donate to the In- 
stitute property of prospective value, where they could not withdraw from their resources 
cash or that which yielded immediate income. 

With best wishes for the Alma Mater whose Silver Wedding we are about to cele- 
brate, I remain, 

Very truly yours, 

Henry Morton. 

President Morton, in repl3ang to the toast, "The Facult}^," said: 

" Let me explain at the outset that in answering this toast for the Faculty I am 
speaking for an ideal body, not for myself and colleagues of the present time, but equally 
for the Faculty of the future and the Faculty of the past. In fact, this Faculty which I 
desire to represent, is, like Truth, immortal, and will exist in an ever-improving embodiment 
long after all its present constituents have passed away. Regarding the Faculty whom I rep- 
resent in this individual and yet impersonal way, I may be allowed to say of it some 
things which the modesty of its members might forbid my uttering if I were assumed to 
speak as their mouthpiece only. 

" In the first place I would say that the youth of this Faculty has been a healthy 
youth of struggle and effort involving something of hardship. It has not been after the 
manner of the jciiucssc dorcc of some institutions endowed with many millions, and need- 
ing but to express the wish for any appliance or tool, desirable for carrying on its work, 
in order to have it. This young Faculty has had to content itself with plain tools and 
rather a minimum of appliances, and has frequently provided needed tools for itself while 
carrying on its work. And let me say here that this statement is not limited in its ap- 
plication to any one individual, but it is true in proportion and degree for each and all. 

" The best of workmen cannot turn out good work without any tools, and the best 
of tools will not make good work for the poor workman ; but the good workman with the 
best tools will turn out a maximum of the best work with the least exhaustion of his ca- 
pacity for its production. 

" I by no means intend to say or suggest that our Faculty in the past and present 
has not had or does not have good tools. The product it has turned out speaks for that ; 
but I do desire to place on record in this connection my conviction that the Faculty of 
the future, in view of the greater demands which will be made upon it, both as to the 
quantity and quality of its product, will need more space to work in and more appliances 
with which to do its work. 

" I have no anxiety as to the needs of to-day, but, looking into the future, I am 
solicitous that timely provision should be made for its needs. 

" This Faculty, beginning with eight members, now numbers twenty-two, the addi- 
tions, without exception, being the intellectual children of the first eight; and though this 
has been a united family, with no disputes tending to make the house too small to hold it, 
yet it is easy to realize that, with all which has been done in the way of adding wings 
and new stories, the old house cannot continue for ever to accommodate its increasing pop- 
ulation. 

"As to the work done by our present twenty-five-year-old Faculty I need say noth- 
ing. If it did not speak or has not spoken for itself to-night, any words of mine would 
be inadequate. What I hope is that in the near future some one, or many individuals. 



46 THE STEVENS INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY 

possessing the ability and looking at the past work of this immortal Faculty, will say in 
the words of the parable: 'Well done, good and faithful servant; thou hast been faithful 
over a few things, I will make thee ruler over many things.' 

" For myself, I am well aware that the time is not distant when I must lay aside 
a work which has never been a labor, but always a pleasure, except on the rare occasions 
when I have been obliged to affect an uncongenial severity in repressing some excessive 
exuberance among our undergraduates ; but I am solicitous that my successor should be 
duly equipped with the means required to meet the more stringent demands of the future." 

The exercises were concluded with a song by the Stevens Glee Club, en- 
titled " Stevens Men." The song Avas composed specially for this occasion, the 
words being written by President Morton, and the music by Dr. Frank L. Sev- 
enoak. 



EXHIBITION OF THE WORK OF THE FACULTY AND ALUMNI 

A VERY interesting feature of the celebration of the Twenty-fifth Anniver- 
sary was the exhibition, held on Friday, February 19, in the Institute building, of 
machinery, apparatus, photographs, etc., which represented the work of members 
of the Faculty and of many of the Alumni. 

The exhibits, numbering nearly one hundred installations, consisted of 
machines and apparatus designed or invented by the exhibitors, and where the 
exhibits consisted of photographs they illustrated extensive engineering works 
planned by and erected under the supervision of graduates of the Institute. 

Examples of the literary activity of the Alumni were present in the form of 
technical works, numerous papers which had been presented to engineering and 
other societies, and of contributions to technical journals. The exhibits were 
distributed in the physical and electrical laboratories, in the library, machine- 
shop, and dynamo-room, and were of an exceedingly varied character. They rep- 
resented labor in almost every branch of engineering science, and served the 
purpose of giving, in a striking manner, a comprehensive view of the lines of work 
in which the graduates are engaged, and emphasized the success achieved by them. 

During the exhibition hours the building was crowded with visitors, es- 
pecially where machines were in operation, and particular features were explained 
by the graduates or their representatives in charge. 

As varied in character as the exhibits were, they did not by any means in- 
dicate all the kinds of engineering and scientific work in which the Stevens grad- 
uate is employed. Thus the work of graduates who occupy such positions as those 
of superintendent of motive power or master-mechanic of a railroad, or of sup- 
erintendent of a manufacturing establishment, etc., could not be represented, al- 
though their work is equal in importance to any that was exhibited. 

In order to give the public additional opportunities to see the exhibits, and 
to satisfy a very general request, it was decided to continue the exhibition on Sat- 



TWENTY-FIFTH ANNIVERSARY CELEBRATION 47 

urday, February 20, and Monday, February 22. The extent and character of the 
exhibition may be judged from the following list of titles. Full descriptions of 
the exhibits were printed in " The Stevens Indicator " for April, 1897. 

AcKERMAN, W. S. (M.E. '91). — Water-color sketch and photograph of a white-lead 
factory. 

Alden, J. S. (M.E. '84).— Pamphlets on "Theory of Matter." 

Antz, Oscar (M.E. 'y8). — Drawings of a compressed-air snow-flanger. 

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Exhibition in Physical Laboratory^ Looking East 

Barnes, William O. (M.E. '84). — Photograph of a steel type engraving-machine. 

Bond, George M. (M.E. '80). — Photo-print of a standard measuring-machine. 

Braine, B. G. (M.E. '93). — Photographs of the Glasgow (Scotland) Harbor Tunnel 
elevators, and photographs representing track-construction, machinery-room, etc., of Lake 
George (N. Y.) Inclined Railway, etc. 

Brinckerhoff, H. M. (M. E. '90). — Photographs of views on the Intramural Railway 
at the World's Fair, and on the Metropolitan West Side Elevated Railroad at Chicago. 

Bristol, Prof. W. H. (M.E. '84), in conjunction with B. B. Bristol (M.E. '93).— In- 
struments for recording pressure, temperature, electric currents, etc., also steel belt- 
lacing. 

Brooks, Morgan (M.E. '83). — Drawings and patents of an automatic telephone sys- 
tem for villages. 

Burhorn, Edwin (M.E. '85). — Photographs and plans of power plants, engines, etc. 



48 THE STEVENS INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY 

Chester, William S. (M.E. '86). — Photographs and sketches of electric motor out- 
fits for blowing church organs, etc. 

Coffey, Barton H. (M.E. '85). — Photographs of a dredging-raachine. 

Collins, Charles Russell (M.E. '86). — Sectional model of an oil-spraying device. 

Cooke, John S. (M.E. '79), and Cooke, Fred W. (M.E. '82). — Photographs of loco- 
motives built by the Cooke Locomotive & Machine Co. 

CuNTZ, Hermann F. (M.E. '93). — Tables of transverse strength of tubing as pub- 
lished in the catalogue of the Pope Tube Co., of Hartford, Conn. 

CuNTZ, J. H. (M.E. '87). — Literary work in the form of pamphlets on " Money." 

Dale, O. G. (M.E. '93). — Steam-engine designed and built while a stvident, in oper- 
ation during the exhibition. 

Denton, Prof. J. E. (M.E. '75), and Jacobus, Prof. D. S. (M.E. '84). — Apparatus 
used by them for instruction purposes in the Department of Experimental Mechanics. 

Denton, Prof. J. E., and Webb, Prof. J. B. — A friction brake specially designed for 
testing steam turbines. This brake has been used in testing a steam turbine running at a 
speed of 20,000 revolutions per minute, and was found to be perfectly reliable in its ac- 
tion at this high velocity. 

Dixon, R. M. (M.E. "81); and Dixon, J. A. (M.E. '91); Whitney, O. C. 
(M.E. 92) ; Macdonald, J. V. (M.E. '93) ; Allan, Percy (M.E. '95) ; and Bruckner, 
R. (M.E. '96), — all of whom were associated with Mr. R. M. Dixon as assistant engineers 
at that time. — Lamps for lighting with Pintsch gas system, and model showing car equip- 
ment for heating with hot water. (See view of Exliihition in Physical Laboratory Looking 
East, at p. 47.) 

Doty, Paul (M.E. '88). — Photographs of gas-works construction. 

Foster, E. H. (M.E. '84). — Photograph of a special high-duty Worthington pump- 
ing-engine. 

Fuller, A. A. (M.E. '88) ; Connet, F. N. (M.E. '89) ; and Jackson, W. W. (M.E. 
'89). — Forty photographs illustrating a 14-in. polishing-lathe, countershaft, and a univer- 
sal belt-shifter (designed and patented by Mr. Connet) which shifts the belt on and off the 
loose pulley by successive pulls of a single rope ; a venturi-meter with a recording-instrument 
for measuring large volumes of water. 

FuRMAN, Prof. F. DeR. (M.E. '93). — Tabulated review of standard draughting-room 
methods, and arrangement of elementary course in mechanical drawing. 

Geyer Prof. William E. Ph.D. '77), and Ganz, Prof. A. F. (M.E. '95).— Appara- 
tus of the Electrical Department ; also special experiments. 

Henning, Gustavus C. (M.E. '76). — Instruments for testing materials. 

Hewitt, William (M.E. '74). — Samples of wire rope of ordinary and special con- 
structions, produced on machines designed and patented by Mr. Hewitt. 

HiCKOK, H. A. (M.E. '83). — A centro-linead, a device for drawing perspective views. 

Hill, George (M.E. '81). — Drawings and photographs of buildings. 

Hiller, N. H. (M.E. '89). — Gauge-cocks and automatic valves for refrigerating 
machinery. 

Howell, John W. (E.E. '81). — Exhibit showing the development of the incandes- 
cent lamp from 1880 to 1895. 

Humphreys, Alexander C. (M.E. '81), and Glasgow, Arthur G. (M.E. '85). — 
Photographs representing a few of the water-gas plants that they have erected in America 
and in Europe. Also an engrossed memorial, giving a list of contracts taken and work 
finished, and naming the Stevens graduates who were then included in their corps of engi- 
neers as follows: Messrs. Wilham W. Randolph (M.E. '86); Shirk Boyer (M.E. '90): 



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49 



F. N. Morton (M.E. '86); F. Thuman (M.E. '90); W. H. Wade (M.E. '85); J. A. Nor- 
cross (M.E. '91); L. D. Carroll (M.E. '84); Rudolph Riege (M.E. '93); and T. H. Van 
der Willigen (M.E. '88). 

HuPFEL, Adolph G. (M.E. '93). — Model of a steam yacht built while a student. 

Jackson, F. E. (M.E. '86). — X-ray apparatus as made by Aylsworth & Jackson 
shown in operation. 

Jacobus, Prof. D. S. (M.E. '84). — Apparatus for measuring pressures up to 10,000 
pounds per square inch and over; for exhibiting the distribution of moisture in a steam 
main; and for standardizing indicators and thermometers. 

Jones, Wm. A. (M.E. '94). — Illustration and description of a 15-inch slotting-ma- 
chine. 




Exhibition in Physical Laboratory, Looking North 



Kelly, J. F. (Ph.D., '78). — A 40-kilowatt two-phase generator with regulator head; a 
2-kilowatt two-phase induction motor; a 2,000-volt static ground detector; a 10,000-volt static 
ground detector; and a static voltmeter, — being component parts of the Stanley-Kelly- 
Chesney system. 

Kent, William (M.E. '76). — A transmission dynamometer; a torsion balance, 
pivot and truss ; photographs and drawings of inventions of furnaces, engines, machines, 
etc. Also Kent's " Mechanical Engineer's Pocket-Book, " and volume of papers presented to 
engineering societies, and of articles prepared for the technical press. 

King, William R. (M.E. '86). — Electrical furnace in operation. 

Kroeh, Prof. Charles F. — Textbooks for learning French, German, and Spanish. 

Ladd, J. B. (M.E. '81). — Photographs of blast-furnace and steel-works. 

Leeds, Dr. Albert R. — Improved forms of apparatus (in operation) devised by 
him for the quantitative measurements of micro-organisms and bacteria in water. 



50 THE STEVENS INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY 

LiEB, J. W., Jr. (M.E. '80). — Photographs of electric-lighting and electric-railway 
construction in the city of Milan, Italy. 

LoziERj A. DE LA M. (M.E. '94). — Automatic electric sounding-machine for ascer- 
taining the depth of water under a vessel without measuring the amount of line overboard, 
or without Hfting the sinker to do so. 

Ludlow, William O. (M.E. '92). — Number of water-color and pen-and-ink 
sketches, and rendered plans. 

MacCord, Prof. Charles W. — Set of ten models illustrating problems in descriptive 
geometry, and mechanical movements ; also text-books. The illustrations shown below repre- 




Two OF Ten Models Exhibited by Professor MacCord 

sent respectively : the one on the left hand, a model of circular and elliptical hyperboloids ; 
and the one on the right hand a model of two tangent hyperboloids of revolution. 

MacGregor W. H. (M.E., '96), and KiNGSFORD^ R. T. (M.E. 96). — Apparatus for in- 
dicating a steam-engine under rapidly and constantly varying load. 

Maury, Dabney H., Jr. (M.E. '84). — Photograph and blue-prints of a steel tower 
and tank, together with specifications for a water-works system. 

Mayer, Prof. Alfred M. — Number of floating disks and rings ; floating magnetic 
needles arranging themselves in regular geometrical figures under the influence of a mag- 
net suspended over them; topophone for determining the direction from which a sound is 
coming; also a sound-mill consisting of four resonators mounted so as to revolve when 
placed near a vibrating tuning-fork. 

Morton, President. — Samples of salts ; colored drawings of spectra and apparatus 
used in chemical research ; apparatus used in the exhibition of phenomena of sound, light, 
and magnetism; paintings representing various lecture illustrations; original designs and 
lithographic impressions in color, in connection with his work on the translation of the 
hieroglyphic inscription on the Rosetta Stone and as title-pages for other compositions of 
his own; various volumes containing articles on scientific subjects. 

Nash, Lewis H. (M.E. 'TJ^. — Twenty-horse-power Nash gas-engine, and the 
Crown, Gem, Empire, Nash, and Improved Gem water-meters. 

Parsons, W. P. (M.E. '80). — Photographs and drawings of cotton-compressors. 

Pfordte, O. F. (M.E. '86). — Samples of concentrated ores, and photographs of min- 
ing regions in Peru and Colorado. 

PiERSON, William D. (M.E. '94). — Continuous wire-drawing machine. 



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Post, Henry W. (M.E. '74). — Plans of steel construction for buildings. 

Prentiss, Henry S. (M.E. '84). — Synchronized clocks. 

QuiMBY, William E. (M.E. '87). — Screw pump in operation. 

Rice, H. R. (M.E. '85). — Photographs of engines of the Rice & Sargent Co. 

Roberts, E. P. (M.E. 'yj). — Prints, specifications, and photographs of steam and 
electric power, and heating and electric-lighting plants; also a Catalogue of the Corre- 
spondence School of Technology, of which Mr. Roberts was President, and Mr. Oscar Antz 
(M.E. '78) was Associate Instructor. 




Luminous Electric Tubes 

From One of the Early Lectures at Stevens Institute by President Morton 

Roberts, George J. (M.E. "84). — Model of a water-gas plant, with improvements, 
as manufactured by the United Gas Improvement Co., of Philadelphia. 

Ruprecht, Louis (M.E. '94). — Specimens of various alloys of lead, tin, antimony, 
copper, zinc, bismuth, nickel, etc. ; such as Babbitt metals of all grades linotype metal, 
stereotype metal, electrotype metal, bronzes, etc. 

Sague, James E. (M.E. '83). — Photographs of locomotives. 

Schlesinger, Alfred H. (ME. '91). — A successful hard-rubber pump for handling 
corrosive liquids. 

Schumacher, H. J. (M.E. '91). — Kite for experimental purposes. 

Smith, H. R. (M.E. '88). — Illustrated description of an electric elevator. 



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Stahl, a. W. (M.E. '76). — Painting of the protected cruiser " Olympia," and two 
albums of photographs of the "Monterey" and the "Oregon," taken on their trial-trips 
(Mr. Stahl superintended the construction of these vessels) : copy of a text-book on 
"Elementary Mechanism," written by himself and Mr. Arthur T. Woods; and a patent 
specification for a wave motor and a paper relating thereto. 

Stillman, Prof. Thos. B. (Ph.D. '83). — Viscosimeter for oils, and a text-book on 
" Engineering Chemistry." 

Thompson, E. P. (M.E. '78). — Books: "Roentgen Rays," and "Invention as a 
Science." 

Torrance, Henry, Jr. (M.E. '90). — -Drawings of a grain-dryer. 

Uehling, E. a. (M.E. 'jj^. — Pneumatic pyrometers and his gas composimeter, in 
operation; drawings and photographs of his pig-iron-molding and conveying apparatus as 
then in operation at the Lucy furnaces. 

Uhlenhaut, F., Jr. (M.E. '88). — Map and photographs of the plant and system of 
the Philadelphia Traction Co. 

Vail, E. L. (M.E. '76). — Photographs and etchings of original paintings. It is to 
be noted that Mr. Vail devoted himself to fine art immediately after graduation from the 
Institute, and that his success in this field is evidenced by the fact that he has been for 
many years liors coiicoitrs at the French Academy, and has received the decoration of the 
Legion of Honor. 

Van ^^LECK, J. (M.E. '84). — Edgewise electrical measuring instruments constructed 
according to his designs ; also photographs and models of a triple-expansion steam-engine 
known as the Van Vleck engine. 

Wagner, H. A. (M.E. '87). — Motors, transformers, switches, and cut-outs; switch- 
board volt-meter, with illuminated dial ; and photographs showing views of other apparatus 
and of the shops of the Wagner Electric Manufacturing Co. 

Webb, Prof. J. B. — A gyroscope of his own construction; a panel bridge model; a 
moment-of-inertia balance; and pieces of apparatus for weighing the reaction of water-jets. 

Westcott, J. T. (ALE. '90). — Photographs of Birmingham Gas Works as erected 
by the Economical Apparatus Construction Co., of Toronto, Canada. 

Wetzler, Joseph (M.E. "82). — A number of volumes of "The Electrical Engineer," 
of which he was editor, and several books of which he is the author. 

Whigham, Wm. (M.E. '88). — Prints of a water-spray apparatus for chilling the 
surfaces of armor plate. 

Whitney, A. R., Jr. (M.E. '90). — Photographs of the exterior and interior of the 
nail-manufacturing plant of the Puget Sound Vv^ire Nail & Steel Co. ; photograph of the in- 
terior of the power-plant of the Everett Railway & Electric Co. ; and a photograph of the 
sloop yacht " Storm King," designed, modeled, laid down, and built by George E. Montandon 
and Mr. Whitney. 

WiLDMAN, Leonard D. (M.E. '90). — Framed pictures of various types of air- and 
gas-compressors manufactvired by the Norwalk Iron Works Co. 

Willis, E. J. (M.E. '88). — Planimeter for areas, mean pressures, and horse- 
power. 

Wolff, A. R. (M.E. '76). — Plans and specifications for the complete steam-power, 
heating, and ventilaring plant of the new hotel then in course of erection at 34th Street and 
Fifth Avenue, for Mr. Astor. It represented the largest and most costly heating and ven- 
tilating plant ever installed in any building in the world. 

Wood, Prof. De Volson. — A rock-drill ; also a home-made barometer. 

Wood, F. H. (M.E. '93). — Photographs of a house, representing his own design. 



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Woodman, Durand (Ph.D. '80). — Samples of irons and steels, with analyses. 

WuRTS, A. J. (M.E. '84). — Marble switch-board panels; non-arcing lightning-arres- 
ters; and thirteen photographs illustrating some of Mr. Wurts's latest inventions in switch- 
board apparatus, and some of the experiments connected with his discovery of non-arcing 
metal ; also the John Scott medal, presented to Mr. Wurts by the Franklin Institute in recog- 
nition of his valuable discovery and inventions in lightning arresters. 




Library of Stevexs Institute During the Twenty-fifth Anniversary 

Exhibition, Showing Models of Stevens Battery, 

ETC., and Latest Model of Ferryboat 



111 addition to the exhibits contributed by the Faculty and Aktmni as above 
enumerated, there were sent to the Institute by Col. E. A. Stevens a number of 
interesting models representing: 

1. The Stevens Battery, as designed and partly constructed by Robert L. 
and Edwin A. Stevens the elder. 

2. A model of the " Naugatuck," a small vessel rebuilt and fitted out by 
Edwin A. Stevens for use against the " IMerrimac " during the war of the Re- 
bellion. 

3. A model representing the "Maria" as altered from a sloop into a 
schooner by Edwin A. Stevens. 

4. A model on a very large scale, and complete in every detail, inside and 



54 THE STEVENS INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY 

out (a portion of the hull being cut away to expose to view all the interior ma- 
chinery), of the "Hamburg," one of the latest of the double-ended ferry-boats, 
with screw propellers at each end, and compound engines, designed and adopted 
on the New York and Hoboken ferries by Col. E. A. Stevens. In contrast to this 
was a model of the twin-screw boat which ran between New York and Hoboken 
. in 1804, having been built at that date by John Stevens. This latter model was 
secured from the National Museum at Washington through the kindness of Mr. 
J. E. Watkins. The illustration on the preceding page shows these models as 
they stood during the exhibition in the Library. Four of thern are on the table in 
the middle of the pictiu'e, and the large ferry-boat model is in the elevated glass 
case immediately beyond this table. 

Mr. B. C. Ball, of the Class of 1895, exhibited a tachometer and a throt- 
tling governor. There were also several exhibits by undergraduates, as follows : 

KiRKLAND, W. A., '97. — Gas engine built by him in the Institute's shops. 
KoRNEMANNj H. A., '99. — Dynamo and motor, built at the Institute. 
PryoRj F. L., "97. — Tandem bicycle constructed from parts purchased in the market. 
Strang, W., '98. — Dynamo built at the Institute. 

An interesting exhibit was that of the Stevens Photographic Society, to 
which members of the Faculty, Alumni, and Undergraduates contributed. The 
first prize was awarded to Mr. William Ebsen, M.E., '90. 

During the exhibition the rooms of the various departments of the Insti- 
tute were thrown open for inspection. 

In the drawing-rooms the regular work upon which students happened to 
be engaged at the time was displayed, as well as finished drawings representing the 
work of the different years of the course in this Department. 

As indicated by the above brief descriptions, the exhibition was large and 
interesting beyond anything which could have been anticipated, though beyond 
doubt many more exhibits of equally high character and scientific interest would 
have been presented had more time been available for their preparation. 

Mrs. Edwin A. Stevens received the Trustees, Faculty, Alumni, Under- 
graduates, and their friends, at Castle Point on Friday afternoon, February 19, 
from three to six o'clock. In receiving the many guests who thronged the man- 
sion for several hours, Mrs. Stevens was assisted by Mrs. Henry Morton, Mrs. 
C. B. Alexander, Mrs. Albert Stevens, and Mrs. Richard Stevens. 

The closing festivity was the promenade concert and dance, held at the 
German Club on Friday evening. The large hall there, which has a seating ca- 
pacity of five hundred, was crowded, and there was an overflow into the adjoin- 
ing dining-hall, so that more than six hundred people were in attendance. 

The concert ended with the song, " Mechanical Engineer," by the united 
musical clubs and b)^ many of the audience, and at its close the hall was cleared of 
chairs, and the dancing began. 



DEDICATION OF THE CARNEGIE LABORATORY . 55 

Altogether the concert and dance proved to be a very great success, and 
formed a fitting close of the glorious celebration of the Twenty-fifth Anniversary 
of the founding of the Institute. 

In response to a notice which was sent to the exhibitors at the Anniversary 
Exhibition, stating that the establishment of a permanent exhibition at the Insti- 
tute was contemplated, a considerable number of donations for that purpose were 
received, being in some cases part, and in others all, of the exhibits shown on 
the above occasion. 

Some of the framed photographs and drawings presented were hung upon 
the walls in different parts of the Institute building, and suitable provision was 
made for preserving and exhibiting the others. 



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This building, although completed and ready for occupancy at the opening 
of the scholastic year in the fall of 1901, was not formally presented by Mr. Car- 
negie until February 6, 1902. 

The presentation exercises, on account of their happy and unique features, 
merit more than a passing note. Mr. Carnegie's felicitous remarks entertained 
and greatly amused the Alumni and their guests ; the latter including, among oth- 
ers, Mrs. Carnegie; Col. Edwin A. Stevens; Mr. and Mrs. Richard Stevens; Mrs. 
E. P. C. Lewis and Mrs. C. B. Alexander, both daughters of Mr. Edwin A. Ste- 
vens, the founder of the Institute; Miss Garnet; and Mr. Alexander C. Humph- 
reys. 

Mr. Carnegie's address on this occasion attracted wide attention. It may 
be found in full in the " Stevens Institute Indicator " for April, 1902. Brief ex- 
tracts are presented herewith : 

" This building seems admirably adapted to its purpose, and yet there is that 
flavor of artistic excellence which could not fail to impress me as I had my first view 
of it. . . . 

" Usually when I have been brought out of my cage to perform the lion, my keep- 
er has presented me with a time-table, telhng me just where I begin to roar, and just where 
to come in ; . . . but this time I am playing the lion run loose, broken from the cage, and 
have no keeper whatever. There is something charming about being perfectly at your 
ease and allowed to say anything that you please. Now, I wish to say this to you : My 
trifling gift to Stevens Institute was not a thing of chance, not a whim. No, it was con- 
scientiously bestowed. It was given because of my experience with what Stevens was do- 
ing, because in my time I have been engaged in manufacturing. . . . 

"When the Iron and Steel Institute was over here (I was chairman of the com- 
mittee) I invited a party of the leaders each night to dine with us. One night, the first 
of all, when the principal men were there, my health was drunk — as they do in England, 
drink the health of everyone, and you have to get up to say something. It 's a splendid 
habit. I tell you the banquet that consists simply of material things and without speaking, 




Andrew Carnegie 



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57 



without brightness, well, that is a feed. It is not a banquet at all. One of them rose and 
said: 

" ' Mr. Carnegie, we have been all over your country and have seen everything ; 
the doors were opened to everybody. It is not the good machinery that we have seen here 
that surprises us most and which we require most; it is not even the magnificent assort- 
ment of ore with which you are blessed. It is something more important than both these, 
— the class of yoimg men that you get in this cotmtry : we know of no corresponding class 
in England.' That man put his finger upon the preeminent cause of our superiority. 

" Therefore when your President told me about the need of a mechanical labora- 
tory. I thought I owed the Alumni of Stevens a great deal more than that laboratory, and 




Silver Box Containing a Piece of the Stevens Rail of 1831 



I asked him if I might be privileged to provide the funds. With that courteous grace for 
which he is distinguished he in the most cordial manner set me quite at ease and ac- 
cepted my offer. . . . 

" And now, Mr. President, it remains for me to present to Mr. Dod the keys of 
this building. I hope that there may come from its walls students that will worthily sus- 
tain the reptitation of Stevens, and having done that, I, for one, have nothing more to 
ask." 

President Morton then presented to Mr. Carnegie the section of the first 
T-rail, in the sih'er casket designed by A. D. Turner and manufactured by 
Messrs. Tiffany & Co. A general view of the casket is given above, and the two 
corner pieces not there shown are represented on the following page. Of the 



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four figures, one represents the prehistoric black- 
smith or metal-worker of the Iron or Bronze Ages ; 
another the armorer of the Middle Ages; the third 
is the village blacksmith of our fathers; and the 
fourth represents a graduate of the Stevens Insti- 
tute. 

On the top of the box, as the picture shows, 
are figures of two men guiding a rail through the 
sort of " rolls " used in and for many years after 
1 83 1, and on the front, in high relief, is a picture 
of the first train which ran over these T-rails on 
the Camden and Amboy railroad, consisting of the 
locomotive " John Bull," built in England by George 
Stephenson, and a train of coach-bodies mounted on 
flat cars. A man on a fast horse went in front of 
the train to warn people off the track. 
On the rear side of the box, also in relief, is a picture of the Carnegie 
Laboratory of Engineering, and at one end is a medallion portrait of Mr. Car- 
negie, and at the other one of Robert L. Stevens. On the under side of the lid 
of the casket is inscribed the following: 





Figure on 
Rear of Box 



Figure on 
Rear of Box 



" This casket is presented to Andrew Carnegie, Esq., by the Alumni Asso- 
ciation of the Stevens Institute of Technology, in commemoration of his gift to 
the Institute of the building for the Carnegie Laboratory of Engineering, and 
contains a portion of the first T-rail ever manufactured, the same having 
been rolled in 1831 at the mills of Sir John Guest, in Wales, under the per- 
sonal supervision of Robert L. Stevens, who devised the rail and contracted 
for its manufacture in quantity for the Camden and Amboy Railroad, of which 
he was President and Engineer-in-Chief." 



The casket also contained a facsimile of the original letters and documents 
relating to the invention, importation, and use of the first T-rails from which 
the section presented to Mr. Carnegie was taken. This section was also duly cer- 
tified in a letter from Mr. Francis B. Stevens, E.D., who surveyed the Camden 
and Amboy railroad, on Avhich these rails were first used in 1831. 

Mr. Carnegie, in accepting the casket, said in part : 

" This is another surprise — an incident. And I think that this touches me too 
nearly for me to feel that I can fittingly express my feelings to you for such a gift, con- 
sidering this small service I have done. I bear blushingly the honors heaped upon me 
to-night. To think that my name and figure should ever be associated on the same casket 
with Mr. Stevens ! . . . 

" The beautiful sentiment of this piece gives to me a peculiar charm. I cannot im- 
agine how anything could be finer, and as all my life, you may say, has been spent in iron 
and steel, — only in manufacturing, not in inventing, — I have no claim to anything but 



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59 



knowing how to use the inventions of others, and I think my own tomb should be in- 
scribed: 

"'Here Lies a Man Who Knew how to Get Around Him Men Much Cleverer 
THAN Himself.' 

" I thank you, the Alumni of Stevens, for this gift. It will pass down as an heir- 
loom, a heritage in our family. It shall never fail to have the place of honor, and our 




Allis-Corliss Cross Compound Engine in the Carnegie Laboratory 

Presented by the Stevens Family 

children shall be taught that what their father was proudest of was this, and perhaps a 
few other kindred things. They will recognize that in his day and generation he had fol- 
lowed, aimed to follow, those beautiful words by King Alfred, one of the greatest men who 
ever lived: * Now I have tried to live my life worthily and to leave behind me for the others 
that come the memory of some good deed done.' 

" I thank you from the bottom of my heart, gentlemen, for this unique and pecu- 
liarly touching gift which you have just bestowed upon me." 

At the banquet following the presentation exercises many unique features 
were introduced. These included a model of a blast-furnace about six feet high, 
occupying the centre of the large central table. From this model was " tapped " 
punch in the regular manner of the modern blast-furnace into ladles operated 



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by working gears and mounted on trucks. The trucks were also correct working 
models and ran the full length of the table on miniature tracks. The blast fur- 
nace is shown in the accompanying group of illustrations, as are also several other 
features briefly described in the following lines. 

Another model showed a Bessemer converter mounted on trunnions through 
which the blast-pipe led to an apparatus that had been devised to produce a 
" blow " throwing out flames several feet high, in which were glowing iron filings. 
An excellent imitation of a converter in action was thus produced. This convert- 
er, on being turned down, poured out fancy cakes. 




Models of Bessemer Converter, Ingot Molds, Open-Hearth Furnace, and 

Furnace 



Still a third Avas a reproduction of an open-hearth furnace, lit interiorly 
with red electric lights, so that when the counterweighted door was raised a per- 
fect representation of the glowing furnace was giA^en. From this furnace came 
fried oysters. 

Models of ingot-molds, ladles, etc., did service at the various tables as 
containing-vessels for various items on th_e menu. The ice-cream was served 
from T-rail forms of usual size in cross-section, and about eighteen inches long. 
A number of ordinary spike-nail kegs were filled with bread and cake in the form 
of railroad spikes of actual size. 

All of these unicjue and intensely interesting features of the banquet origi- 
nated with President Morton and were executed under his supervision at the In- 
stitute. 



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INAUGURATION OF PRESIDENT HUMPHREYS 

Although President Humphreys assumed the duties of his office at the 
opening- of the collegiate year in the fall of 1902, the formal exercises of inaugu- 
ration did not take place until February 5, 1903. On that date the Trustees, Fac- 
ulty, Alumni, and invited guests assembled at the Carnegie Laboratory, where 
Chancellor W. J. Magie, of New Jersey, administered the oath of office. 

The addresses delivered on that occasion were as follows : 

Address of Welcome S. Bayard Dod, A.M. 

Address on Behalf of the Faculty Prof. Charles F. Kroeh, A.M. 

Address on BeJialf of the Alumni . . . William F. Zimmerman, M.E., '76. 
Address on Behalf of the Universities and Colleges . Charles F. Thwing, D.D. 
Address on Behalf of the Schools of Engineering . Henry S. Pritchett, LL.D. 

Greeting from Rensselaer Polytechnic School Dr. W. L. Robb. 

Greeting from Uniz'crsity of Pennsylvania Edgar Marburg, C.E. 

Address by Andrew Carnegie. 

Inaugural Address President Alexander C. Humphreys, M.E. 

In connection with the inaugural exercises a reception was tendered to 
President Humphreys by the Alumni Association, on the evening of the 4th of 
February, in the Carnegie Laboratory. On this occasion President Humphreys 
spoke at length on matters of interest to the Alumni. Prof. James E. Denton, 
of the Class of 1875, responded on behalf of the Faculty and Alumni. 

On the evening of the 5th an inaugural dinner was tendered to President 
Humphreys at Sherry's, in New York. 0\-er four hundred guests and Alumni 
were present. Toasts were responded to by the following: 

Alexander C. Humphreys, M.E., President of Stevens Institute of Technology 

Hon. Franklin Murphy, Governor of A'Czv Jersey 

Rev. Frederick Burgess, Bishop of Long Island 

Col. E. A. Stevens, Trustee of Stevens Institute 

S. Bayard Dod, A.M., President of Stevens Board of Trustees 

Robert H. Thurston, A.M., E.D., LL.D., Director of Sibley College 

Walton Clark, General Superintendent of United Gas Improvement Co. 

Henry S. Pritchett, LL.D., President, Massachusetts Institute of Technology 

Capt. W. H. White, Consulting Engineer 

R. H. Crittenden, Ph.B., Ph.D., Director of Sheffield Scientific School 

George H. Daniels, General Passenger Agent, Nez^' York Central Railroad 

Malcolm S. Greenough, President, Cleveland Gas Light &■ Coke Co. 

Prof. Chas. F. Chandler, M.D., Ph.D., LL.D., Sc.D., Columbia University 

Col. H. G. Prout, Editor of " The Railroad Gazette " 

Prof. Edgar Marburg, C.E., University of Pennsylvania 

Tracy H. Harris, President of the Princeton Club 

Eeen E. Olcott, President of the Institute of Mining Engineers 

All the addresses at the inaugural exercises, the Alumni meeting, and the 
banquet are printed in full in the "Stevens Institute Indicator " for April, 1903. 



62 THE STEVENS INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY 

THE ALUMNI ASSOCIATION 

The Alumni Association of the Stevens Institute of Technology was or- 
ganized July I, 1876. its object being "to cultivate such social relations as shall 
tend to foster among its members a sentiment of regard for one another and 
of attachment to their Alma Mater, and to promote in every way the interests of 
the Institute." 

Since its organization, one year after the first four-year class had been 
graduated, its membership has grown from about 25 to 711 on January i, 1904, 
so that it now numbers abotit y^i per cent of the total number of living graduates. 
Of the total number of graduates 57 are deceased. 

The first President of the Alumni Association was William Hewitt, M.E., 
'74, as will be seen from the following list, which gives the name of each suc- 
ceeding President and also the year during which he ser^•ed : 

NAME YEAR NAME YEAR 

William Hewitt (M.E. 74) 1876-77 Alfred P. Trautwein (M.E. '76) . .1890-91 

Henry W. Post (M.E. 74) 1877-78 Edward B. Wall (M.E. '76) 1891-92 

William E. Geyer (Ph.D. 'yy) ...1878-79 Cornelius J. Field (M.E. '86) 1892-93 

James E. Denton (M.E. '75) 1879-80 Harry Van Atta (M.E. '81) 1893-94 

Alfred P. Trautwein (M.E. '76) .. 1880-81 William Hewitt (M.E. '74) 1894-95 

Alfred R. Wolff (M.E. '76) 1881-82 Harry deB. Parsons (M.E. '84) ... 1895-96 

Adolph Sorge (M.E. '75) 1882-83 Edward P. Roberts (M.E. 'yy) 1896-97 

Roland S. Kursheedt (M.E. '80) . .1883-84 John W. Lieb, Jr. (M.E. '80) 1897-98 

William Kent (M.E. '76) 1884-85 Robert M. Dixon (M.E. '81) 1898-99 

Alex. C. Humphreys (M.E. "81 ) . . . 1885-86 Hosea Webster (M.E. '82) 1899-1900 

George M. Bond (M.E. '80) 1886-87 William L. Lyall (M.E. '84) 1900-01 

Alfred R. Wolff (M.E. '76) 1887-88 Carter PI. Page, Jr. (M.E. '87) . . . .1901-02 

Lewis H. Nash (M.E. 'yy) 1888-89 William S. Ackerman (M.E. '91) . . 1902-03 

GusTAVus C. Henning (M.E. '76) . .1889-90 William C. Post (M.E. '86) 1903-04 

The Alumni Association has been and still is active in the interests of its 
Alma Mater, for whom it has instituted a number of worthy projects looking to- 
ward her further advancement. 

Shortly after its organization the Alumni Association established a Ben- 
eficiary Fund, which was created by means of contributions from the members and 
by an appropriation from the General Fund of the Association. The Beneficiary 
Fund, thus early established, is still flourishing, and has for its object the assisting, 
financially, of such worthy and needy students as desire to complete their course of 
study at Stevens. This fund, however, is not one of pure charity; for it is pre- 
sumed that the benefixiary, some time after graduation, will be in a position to re- 
pay his indebtedness to the Association, and he is therefore required to give a 
promissory note to that effect. Since the establishment of this fund twenty-one 
students have received assistance varying from $50 to $200. The total amount of 
the fund at present is $1,900.44. 



THE ALUMNI ASSOCIATION 63 

In 1886 the Alumni Association took steps to raise, by subscription, the 
sum of $2,500 for the estabhshment of a Scholarship Fund, in accordance with 
resolutions previously passed by the Board of Trustees. But before the above 
sum had been secured, the urgent needs of the Institute Library manifested them- 
selves and became paramount, and it was therefore decided to change the name 
of this fund to the Library Fund, the consent of the subscribers having been ob- 
tained. Out of the $914.75 which had been subscribed, the Association placed in 
the hands of the Institute Trustees the sum of $800 for the purchasing of stan- 
dard works, among which was a complete set of the " Transactions " of the Brit- 
ish Society of Mechanical Engineers; for the indexing and cataloguing of the 
Library; for binding the most important pamphlets and papers, and, in general, 
placing the Library in a condition of thorough efficiency. This action was sup- 
plemented by the Trustees, who altered the Library to better advantage and pro- 
vided a Librarian. 

At the regular meeting of the Association held in June, 1889, a Library 
Portrait Fund was established by subscription. By means of this fund crayon 
portraits of Capt. John Ericsson, Col. John Stevens, and Robert L. Stevens have 
been made, framed, and presented to the Institute, and now grace the Library 
walls. Through the efforts of the committee in charge of this fund, and the gen- 
erosity of Mrs. Martha B. Stevens, the Institute was the recipient, in 1890, of a 
portrait of Edwin A. Stevens and a bust of Benjamin Franklin, and these also 
adorn the Library. 

Another crayon portrait furnished through the generosity of the Alumni, 
although not by the above-mentioned Portrait Fund, is that of the late Edward B. 
Wall, of the class of ' ^6. 

During the year 1886 the Alumni Association petitioned the Board of 
Trustees for representation in that body, with the result that in 1887 representation 
by one Alumnus was granted, and upon further petition, in 1891, an addi- 
tional representation of two was granted, making three in all. This generous rec- 
ognition from the Board of Trustees, which was a great encouragement to the 
Alumni Association in the pursuance of its earnest efforts, was due in a large 
measure to President Morton, who had ever manifested a warm interest in the 
affairs of the Association and in its individual members. As an acknowledgment of 
this interest and of their esteem, and of gratitude for his many kindly acts, the 
Association decided, in 1892, to present the Institute with a life-sized portrait 
of President Morton. When a call was made for contributions for this purpose 
there was a ready response, and the sum of $1,008.50 was promptly subscribed. 
The portrait, which represents President Morton in his laboratory in the act of 
lecturing to his class, was painted by a noted artist, who, out of a warm personal 
friendship for Dr. Morton, executed the work at an extremely low figure, leaving 
a large balance in the above fund, a portion of which was used in the preparation 
of a souvenir book descriptive of the life work of President Morton. This large 



64 THE STEVENS INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY 

portrait, suitably framed, was presented to the Board of Trustees by the Alumni 
Association in June, 1892. 

Looking forward to the growing demands of the Institute, the Alumni As- 
sociation, at its regular midwinter meeting in February, 1892, authorized and 
then entered upon the task of raising a subscription of $50,000 among the Alum- 
ni, for the erection of a building to accommodate the Departments of Physics 
and Chemistry. About $15,000 was subscribed by the Alumni, when the financial 
depression which began in 1893 interfered with further progress in the work. 
Some years later, when the times became propitious. President Morton, who had 
contributed to the fund sums in the aggregate ecjual to twice the amount subscribed 
by the Alumni, secured the good offices of Mr. Andrew Carnegie, who gave a 
new building, costing $65,000, and an endowment of $100,000, increased later to 
$225,000. Thus the immediate demands of the Institute were met, and the Alum- 
ni Building Fund remained dormant until the fall of 1902, when necessity again 
ai'ose for further building accommodation. The Alumni were appealed to, and 
there was a ready response of over $30,000, making a total of about $55,000 
contributed by the Alumni at the present time. This includes interest on the early 
contribution of $15,000. The total amount in the fund now is about $90,000. 
The difference between this and $55,000 is due to the contributions of President 
Morton and the interest thereon. 

Not all of the good work of this Association has required the raising of 
funds. In order further to increase its broadening field of usefulness, the Alumni 
Association established in 1887 what might be well described as a professional em- 
ploAanent association among themselves. Although this has not been maintained 
as such, its spirit has survived, as shown by the fact that many of the Alumni who 
have reached positions of influence have given employment to a large number of 
Stevens men. The most prominent example of this is found in the case of Mr. 
Alexander C. Humphreys, '81, who, as superintendent of the United Gas Im- 
provement Co. and as a member of the firm of Humphreys & Glasgow, has em- 
ployed more than fifty Stevens men. Mr. A. P. Traut^vein, '76, President of 
the Carbondale Machine Co.; Mr. R. M. Dixon, '81, ist Vice-President of the 
Pintsch Compressing Co. ; and Mr. J. W. Lieb, '80, General Manager of the New 
York Edison Co., have also taken a large number of graduates. 

Until 1888 the Alumni Association met once a year during Commencement 
week. In February of that year the first semi-annual or midwinter meeting of 
the Association was held ; these meetings have since been continued chiefly as 
social functions, the business transactions occurring at the June meeting. In 1893 
a new Constitution was adopted, to meet the changed requirements of the Asso- 
ciation, which had grown very rapidly, and whose members were scattered over 
an extensive territory. One of the principal changes provided for in this Con- 
stitution was the election of officers by mail instead of by direct vote, as had 
previously been the custom. 



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STEVENS INSTITUTE INDICATOR" 



The " Stevens Institute Indicator," now issued quarterly as a technical pub- 
lication, and the official organ of the Stevens Institute of Technology, first 
made its appearance as the " Stevens Indicator" under date of January 15, 1884. 
It was founded by the Undergraduates and was published on the 15th of each 
month during the college year by a Board of seven editors, of whom Mr. C. W. 
Whiting, '84, was the first Editor-in-Chief, and to whom more than any other 
one person is due the credit of introducing a periodic news publication at 
Stevens. 

At the beginning of the year 1885 a stock company obtained control of the 
" Indicator " and published it imtil the latter part of 1886, when the Alumni 
Association assumed its management, defined its policy, and became financially re- 
sponsible for the publication. It was made a quarterly magazine, distinctively 
scientific in character, and was edited by a Board consisting of two Alumni and 
four Undergraduate members. It was thus first issued in its present character and 
form January 15, 1887. 

The Faculty and Alumni of the Institute have been the principal contrib- 
vitors to the " Indicator," and to them is due in a large measure its success and 
the credit for the prominent position it has taken among technical college publi- 
cations. INIany of the articles that have appeared in its pages are valuable 
additions to scientific literature, and have been reprinted by the leading engineer- 
ing journals of the United States and Europe. 

The management of the " Indicator " since it became the official publica- 
tion of the Institute in 1887 h^^s been in the following hands: 

A. P. Trautwein, M.E. '76 1 „„ ^ ., „„„ . , . 

Albert Spies, M.E. '81 ,^ January, 1887, to April, 1888, inclusive 

A. P. Trautwein, M.E. '76 ]^, „„„ , ., „„ 

Joseph Wetzler, M.E. '82 I J^^^' '^^^' ^° ^P^^' ^^89, 

A. P. Trautwein, M.E. '76 -\ 

Joseph Wetzler, M.E. '82 '- July, 1889, to October, 1890, 

Adam Riesenberger, M.E. '76 ) 

Adam Riesenberger, M.E. '76 1 ^ 

Joseph Wetzler, M.E. '82 [ J^^^^^-^' '^^'' ^° J^""^''^^' '^^'' 

Joseph Wetzler, M.E. '82 April, 1892, and July, 1892 

Thomas B. Stillman, Ph.D. '83 October, 1892 

Samuel D. Graydon, M.E. '75 January, 1893, to October, 1895, inclusive 

Adam Riesenberger, M.E. '76 ) ^ r. ^ a •, r, 

Thomas B. Stillman, Ph.D. '83 [ J""""''^' '^^^' '° ^^''^' ^^97- 

, Franklin DeR. Furman, M.E. '93 July, 1897, to July, 1902, 

Charles O. Gunther, M.E. '00 October, 1902, to January, 1904 " 

William A. Shoudy, M.E., '99 A.pril, 1904, to 



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STUDENT ENTERPRISES 

SOCIAL LIFE 

Fraternities. — Among the older of our College institutions are the vari- 
ous chapters of the Greek-letter fraternities, of which there are nine now repre- 
sented at Stevens with a membership ranging from lo to 19 each. In 1879 ^^e 
■total undergraduate membership of the fraternities having chapters at Stevens was 
60 per cent of the whole student body and was then at its height; in 1903 the mem- 
bership had decreased to 29 per cent. Further data regarding the several fra- 
ternity chapters that have been established at Stevens is given in the following 
table : 



Name of Fraternity 



Theta Xi 

Sigma Theta Pi . . 
Delta Tau Delta . , 
Alpha Sigma Chi 
Beta Theta Pi . . . 
Beta Theta Pi ... , 
Alpha Tau Omega 
Alpha Tau Omega 

Chi Psi 

Sigma Chi 

Chi Phi 

Theta Nu Epsilon 

Tau Beta Pi 

Phi Sigma Kappa . 
Sigma Nu 



Name of Chapter 



Gamma 

Beta Epsilon .... 

Sigma 

N. J. Alpha Kappa 
N. J. Alpha Kappa 

Alpha Xi 

Alpha Delta .... 
Mu 



Mu 

Alpha of N. J. 






• The fraternities of Alpha Sigma Chi and Beta Theta Pi united in 1879, retaining the latter name 



Dances. — The first undergraduate social event in the annals of the In- 
stitute was a Stevens Ball, held in the Gymnasium Hall, January 23, 1878. It 
was first suggested by one of the students as a means to raise funds for the new 
gymnasium. This, however, was not continued as a yearly affair; but several 
years later, in 1885, Senior Promenades were held at the German Club, Hoboken, 
and at the Institute. In 1887 the Junior Ball was given for the first time in the 
German Club, and since then it has been held each year by the Juniors. From 1890 
to 1902 inclusive it was held in diflferent well-known halls in New York, includ- 
ing Sherry's, Lenox Lyceum, Jaeger's Hall, Delmonico's, etc. In 1903 it was 
held in the hall of the Carnegie Laboratory. Previous to 1893 the Junior Ball 
was given during Commencement week; then for several years it was held im- 
mediately after Lent, and for the past few years it has occurred before Lent. 

Stevens Senior Socials were receptions given at short intervals, and origi- 
nated with the Class of 1884. For a short time membership was limited to the 
Senior class ; it was finally limited to the membership of several fraternities and 
became known simply as the Stevens Social Society. A dance is given each term 



STUDENT ENTERPRISES (>7 

of the college year. For many years the dances were held in the hall of Stevens 
School, but are now given in the Carnegie building. 

Receptions. — President and Mrs. Morton's annual reception to the Faculty, 
Alumni, and Undergraduates was one of the charms of Commencement week. 
This custom has been continued by President and Mrs. Humphreys, who gave 
their initial reception in the spacious hall of the Carnegie Laboratory, June 17, 
1903. 

In addition to the above-mentioned receptions connected with the Insti- 
tute, many have been given to the undergraduates at different times since the or- 
ganization of the Institute by the various Professors and their wives at their 
homes. 

Several of the fraternities have also, for many years, contributed to the 
general social life at the Institute by giving receptions or afternoon teas to their 
friends. 

An appreciated courtesy that has been graciously extended to the Faculty, 
Graduating Class, and Undergraduates, has been the use of the private grounds of 
Castle Point for Class Day exercises, together with the receptions given by the 
hostess of the Castle on these occasions. 

Commencement Exercises. — Besides the social functions enumerated above, 
and the meeting of the Alumni Association, the Commencement week has always 
been a period for Class reunions and other festivities on the part of the visiting 
Alumni. Commencement exercises have been held in various places, including 
the Institute Lecture Hall, the German Club, the M. E. Church, and the Hoboken 
theatres. 

Among those who have been selected to deliver the address to the gradu- 
ating class, the following have been recorded in various publications that have 
been available in the preparation of this book: 

Mr. James C. Bayles 1883 

Mr. A. P. Boiler 1887 

Dr. C. E. Emery 1887 

Mr. J. H. Holloway 1890 

Mr. Erastus Wiman 1891 

Mr. Alfred R. Wolff, M.E 1892 

Mr. Alexander C. Humphreys, M.E. . . . 1893 

Mr. Joseph Hector Fezandie, M.E 1894 

Mr. John M. Gregory, LL.D 1895 

Mr. Robert W. Hunt 1896 

Mr. Henry R. Towne 1897 

Col. H. G. Prout 1898 

Mr. Walton Clark 1900 

Mr. Arthur Graham Glasgow, M.E 1901 

Mr. Charles F. Scott 1903 



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The usual Commencement addresses by the students have been deUvered 
each year as follows : 

YEAR VALEDICTORIAN SALUTATORIAN 

876 John M. Wallis Edward B. Wall 

877 Lewis H. Nash Not filled 

878 Edwin L. Myers John F. Kelly 

879 Maunsel White Not filled 

880 Roland S. Kursheedt Wilbur V. Brown 

881 Harry Van Atta Edwin Tatham 

882 Roger H. Whitlock ■. .Hosea Webster 

883 James E. Sague Ernest N. Wright 

884 Henry R. Rea Charles F. Parker 

885 Clayton A. Pratt John M. Rusby 

886 C. Russell Collins Henry B. Everhart 

887. Joseph A. McElroy Franklin Moeller 

888 Burton P. Hall Gordon Campbell 

889 Robert E. Wyant Robert G. Smith 

890 Henry M. Brinckerhoff Henry Torrance, Jr. 

891 Alexander Dow Paul Spencer 

892 Nicholas S. Hill, Jr William O. Ludlow 

893 Franklin DeR. Furman Hermann F. Cuntz 

894 Oliver Ellsworth Joseph G. H. Cottier 

895 William H. Corbett C. Austin Greenidge 

896 Arthur J. Wood Walter H. Dickerson 

897 William D. Ennis H. Donald Tiemann 

898 Frederick A. Welles John D. Hackstaff 

899 Arthur Wilson Alfred S. Loizeaux 

900 John C. Percy Not filled 

901 August Siegele, Jr Roy S. Younglove 

902 Robert N. Inglis George E. Hulse 

903 Harry W. Johnson Herbert B. Van Etten 

ENGINEERING SOCIETIES 

The first student organization founded at Stevens for the pursuit of scien- 
tific knowledge was the Rumford Society, named in honor of the distinguished 
scientist, Count Rumford. At its first meeting, held May 20, 1876, two papers 
were presented, one on " New Jersey Zinc Ores," by W. R. Baird, '78, and one 
on " Duplex Telegraphy," by Brown Ayres, '78, who was the first president. 
During the first year twenty-seven scientific papers were read and discussed. As 
in the present Engineering Society, a president was elected each term. The Rum- 
ford Society was the first to undertake the indexing of the Institute librar}^, and 
it also kept an indexed library of current literature of its own. It held its meet- 
ings on Wednesday evenings, and included in its membership the entire Faculty. 
It was discontinued in 1878. 

In December, 1877, ^ rival organization to the above, and known as the 



STUDENT ENTERPRISES 69 

Philosophical Society, was established, its aims and plans being similar to those 
of the Rumford association. Successful meetings were held and a reading-room 
established ; the latter was neatly furnished, and hung with framed pictures of 
prominent scientific men, and was supplied with current literature. Much good 
was accomplished, and the Society prospered for five years and was then discon- 
tinued. 

The present Stevens Engineering Society w^as organized May 20, 1887, 
its object being " to aid and encourage its members in the study of engineering 
practice, in original research, and in the cultivation of the powers of thought and 
expression." The first president of this Society was C. V. Kerr, '88. It is com- 
posed of members of the Junior and Senior classes. 

ATHLETICS 

Viewed in a retrospective light, the average athletic achievements of Ste- 
vens men have been, under the existing conditions, very creditable, and in many 
instances brilliant. Courage, determination, and brains — all of which are indis- 
pensable qualities to a good athlete — are not lacking at Stevens. Physical prow- 
ess, such as is necessary in the modern college contests, is the complementary 
requisite to the above qualities, and is a trained function that can be, and is, ac- 
quired in most cases in our larger institutions of learning, chiefly through the aid 
of athletic culture properly administered under the care of a professional trainer. 
Although Stevens possesses a fairly well equipped gymnasium for normal practice, 
it is not of the professional order, and, even if it were, would be of comparatively 
slight service, owing to the rigorous demands made upon the time of the student 
in preparation for his professional career. 

Our geographical location, so advantageous to one pursuing a scientific 
course of study, is detrimental to our athletic ventures in that many of those who 
might otherwise take a more active interest live at their homes, more or less re- 
mote, and are thus removed from the College environment, which is quite neces- 
sary for the maintenance and ebullition of college enthusiasm. 

Football. — The sport with which Stevens has been officially identified for 
the longest time is football, which was established in 1873. The football team 
was composed of twenty men, and was known as the College Twenty in the early 
days when it played the American Association game. James E. Denton, '75, was 
the first captain to carry the football team through a playing season. 

The first game played by Stevens was with the New York University in 
September, 1873, Stevens winning by 6 goals to i. In the same year Stevens 
won two other games, and lost to Columbia by a score of 2 to i. Stevens then 
had but 75 men to choose from. In the four years from 1873 to 1876 inclusive, 
Stevens won 12 out of 20 games and scored 63 points to her opponents 41 ; those 
opponents being the teams of the College of the City of New York, the Univer- 



70 THE STEVENS INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY 

sity of New York, Rutgers, the New Jersey Athletic Association, Columbia Uni- 
versity, Princeton, and Yale. 

In 1877 the English Rugby game was adopted by various colleges, Stev- 
ens included, and the football team was reduced to eleven men. In that and the 
following year Stevens defeated Rutgers four times, Columbia and the College 
of the City of New York each once, and lost to Yale by 12 to o, and to Princeton 
by 5 to o. In 1879 there were fifteen members in the team, and it so remained 
until 1882, when it was again composed of eleven members. 

The year 1883 was the banner year in Stevens football history. Eleven 
games were played with the leading colleges of the country; the Stevens team 
vanquished all its old rivals, and at the end of the season stood fourth, or next 
to Harvard, in football rank. During the two following years Stevens fully held 
her own among the colleges of her own class, and established a football record 
in 1885 by beating the College of the City of New York by the unprecedented score 
of 162 to o. In 1886 Stevens also made a strong showing. 

During the three years from 1887 to 1889 inclusive, Stevens was a member 
of the Eastern Intercollegiate Football Association, composed of Amherst, Trin- 
ity, Dartmouth, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, and ourselves, but was 
successful only in 1888, when a tie-game for the first place was lost on a techni- 
cality. 

Since 1890 the team has not been regularly represented on the gridiron. 
In 1893 the eleven joined the Middle States Football League, composed of Lafay- 
ette, Rutgers, and Stevens, and missed winning the championship by a very nar- 
row margin. 

Lacrosse. — Lacrosse, which has brought to Stevens more athletic distinc- 
tion than any other branch of college sport, was introduced in 1884 by Rollin 
Norris, '85. In 1885 the Stevens team joined with the University of New York, 
the New York Lacrosse Club, and the Williamsburg Athletic Club in forming the 
Metropolitan Amateur Lacrosse Association, and made a creditable showing, in 
addition to winning a game from Lehigh by 4 to o. 

During the following two years the team showed a steady improvement, 
and in 1888 succeeded in winning the championship of the Metropolitan League, 
composed of the College of the City of New York, the New York University, 
and Stevens. Outside of the League, Rutgers was defeated twice. During the 
same year the Intercollegiate League, comprising Princeton, Harvard, Lehigh, 
and Stevens, was formed ; two out of the three games were very close and were 
decided by one goal against Stevens. During this season of 1888 Stevens scored 
25 goals to her opponents' 10. The game continued a strong favorite at Stevens, 
and, although not so successful the following year, the team was tied for first place 
in the Metropolitan League in 1890, and achieved an equal success in 1891. 

In 1892 the team, under the captaincy of Kingsley Martin, '92, won the 
championship of the Intercollegiate League, comprising Johns Hopkins, Lehigh, 



STUDENT ENTERPRISES 71 

and Stevens, and thereby became the champion college lacrosse team of the 
United States. The 1894 team, with Morris Kellogg, '94, as captain, again cap- 
tured the championship from the same colleges. 

Baseball. — Baseball at Stevens dates back to the beginning of the Institute's 
history, the first College nine being organized prior to 1873, and captained by W. 
F. Zimmermann, '76, who held that position several years. Although the admirers 
of the national game persistently and pluckily put a Stevens baseball team in the 
field each year, with few exceptions down to 1893 it never received enthusiastic 
support, and dragged along with little or no success. There were, however, two 
or three exceptions, one being in 1877, when 8 games out of 12 were won, 
and another in 1883, when this success was duplicated by the same numbers. In 
the latter case the opposing teams were the stronger, coming, as they did, from 
Williams and Lafayette colleges and from various strong athletic clubs in this 
section of the country; against such teams as these Stevens scored 113 points to 
her opponents' 82. During this brilliant period the teams were under the cap- 
taincy of E. N. Wright, '83. The teams of 1888 and 1889 were also successful, 
but since that time the interest in the game has so much decreased that it is not 
now, nor has it been since 1893, recognized by the Athletic Association as a rep- 
resentative Stevens game. 

The Athletic Association. — This Association was organized in 1873, with 
Samuel D. Graydon, '75, as its first president. The first athletic meeting was a 
spirited affair containing eleven events, and was held October 17, 1874, at the 
Cricket Grounds, which had been secured for the use of the Association. 

In 1877 the grounds were leveled, and a quarter-mile track was constructed. 
The Association has developed some excellent talent and made a number of credit- 
able records. Among those which have stood for many years and are still good 
are those made by A. T. Moore, '82, in putting the shot, and in throwing the 
hammer, 1880; by Isaac, '88, in the 440-yard dash, 1885; by McLean, '88, in 
the one-mile walk, 1885 ; and by Wall, '76, and Zimmermann, '76, in the three- 
legged race at the first meeting of the Athletic Association in 1874. During the 
athletic games in 1902 and in 1903, Buckenham, '04, beat the record for the 100- 
yard dash made by Simpson, '93, in 1890, and also the 220-yard dash made by 
Jennings, '96, in 1894; Pratt, '04, established new records for the half-mile and 
mile runs (the former had been previously held by Smith, '91, since 1889, and the 
latter by Maury, '84, since 1884) ; and Weber, '06, beat the record for the broad 
jump, which had been held by Emmet, '91, since 1889. 

Stevens holds ten points in the Intercollegiate Amateur Athletic Associa- 
tion of America, all won by A. T. Moore, '82, in the years 1880 and 1881. 

Tennis. — A Tennis Club, organized in 1882, is still active. 

Boating, Yachting, and Canoeing. — Among the earliest of sports under- 
taken by Stevens students was that of boating. As early as 1873 an organization 
had been effected, a boathouse secured, and an eight-oared gig, one of the best in 



72 . THE STEVENS INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY 

the country, received through the generosity of Mr. W. W. Shippen, of the Board 
of Trustees of the Institute. This organization was known as the Stevens Insti- 
tute Rowing Association, and its existence was due in a great measure to the efforts 
of Howard Di:ane, '76. Two challenges, sent to the rowing club at the Rensse- 
laer Polytechnic Institute, Troy, were declined. This was unfortunate, if not fatal, 
to boating interests at Stevens ; for, with no other college crew of her own class 
against which to compete, the Association was without an incentive, and, after 
several years of intermittent activity, expired in 1878. The active periods were 
occasioned by the various class contests and by a signal victory over the strong 
Nautilus crew. 

During the year 1893 a Canoe Club was organized with eleven members, 
and during the vacation of that year a cruise of 600 miles was made from Peter- 
borough, Canada, to New York city. 

The Stevens Yacht Club, which enjoyed a period of uniform prosperity 
for a number of years, was organized October i, 1891, with 10 charter mem- 
bers. During the first year the membership grew to 24, and later increased to 44. 
The first fleet included 17 yachts, mainly sloops and catboats. In June, 1892, the 
first cruise was taken on Long Island Sound; later, summer stations were estab- 
lished at Greenwich, Conn., and Patchogue, L. I. The flag of the Stevens Yacht 
Club is a Stevens diamond in red and white on a blue pointed burgee. The club 
includes several distinguished names in its list of honorary members. 

The Gun Club. — A Stevens Gun Club was founded in January, 1892, 
with 22 members. It was successfully carried on, and developed some excellent 
marksmen at the various " shoots " which it gave. 

The Gymnasium. — In 1877 the large room that had been used as a lecture- 
hall and later as a machine-shop, and is now an auditorium, was fitted up as a 
gymnasium, and an instructor was secured; but through lack of interest and sup- 
port he remained only a few months, and a few years later, in 1880, the gymna- 
sium was dispensed with entirely. In 1888, when the new High School building 
was constructed, provision was made for a good-sized gymnasium in the base- 
ment. This was fitted up with lockers, etc., and has been largely used at certain 
seasons. 

PUBLICATIONS 

Tlie "Eccentric," the "Bolt," and the "Link." — The first publication is- 
sued by the students of the Institute was the " Eccentric," which made its appear- 
ance in May, 1874. The first Board of Editors consisted of J. Hector Fezandie, 
Frank M. Leavitt, and G. Barry Wall, all of the class of '75. The " Eccentric," as 
published until the year 1879 by the Junior class, was issued annually, and con- 
tained, as do annual student publications of to-day, class histories, lists of fra- 
ternities, records of athletic and social events, and literary contributions. The 



STUDENT ENTERPRISES 73 

earlier annuals were less pretentious as regards their typographical features than 
those of later years, but in this respect only did they differ materially from the 
latter. 

A change in the management of the " Eccentric " was made in 1879 ac- 
cording to a plan proposed by the fraternities. This plan was, in brief, that each 
of the Chapters and the non-fraternity element should select two of their number 
without respect to class, and that they should compose the Board of Editors. This 
was carried out, and the "Eccentric" of 1879 was edited by eight representa- 
tives and " Published by the Students of the Stevens Institute of Technology." In 
1880 the number of representatives was decreased by four. 

With the advent of several new fraternities in 1882, and because the older 
fraternities were finable to agree upon the admission to the Board of Editors of 
members of these new fraternities, another annual, aptly named the " Bolt," made 
its first appearance in May, 1883. The Board of Editors included five represen- 
tatives, one from each of the three newly organized fraternities, one from an older 
fraternity that had taken issue with its younger brothers, and one from the 
non-fraternity or neutral body. For three years the " Bolt " was published by 
these fraternities assisted by the neutrals, and from 1886 to 1889 it was " Pub- 
lished by the Undergraduates." 

In 1889 the rival publications of the " Eccentric " and the " Bolt " joined 
forces and issued the " Link," which has been published annually since that time 
by the Junior Class of the Stevens Institute of Technology. 

The Editorial Board of the first " Link " was, and the succeeding Boards 
have been, composed of one representative from each fraternity and one from the 
neutrals. 

In subject-matter the Institute annuals have remained about the same, as 
necessarily must all college annuals, the chief difference being in the literary 
merits and the artistic qualities of the illustrations. In both of these features 
the " Eccentric," the " Bolt," and the " Link " have produced articles worthy of 
mention here, but space forbids. There was, however, a custom inaugurated in 
the first " Link " of 1890 which has added very materially to the value of the 
book, and that was the publication of the biographies, together with a full-page 
photographic reproduction, of the members of the Eaculty, one of which appears 
in each volume. Down to the present time the following Professors have received 
such kindly consideration, in the order given : 

1890 Prof. Coleman Sellers, E.D. 1896 Prof. De Volson Wood, A.M., C.E. 

1891 " Albert R. Leeds, Ph.D. 1897 " Edward Wall, A.M. 

1892 " Alfred M. Mayer, Ph.D. 1898 " James E. Denton, M.E. 

1893 " ]■ Burkitt Webb, C.E. 1899 " Wm. E. Geyer, Ph.D. 

1894 " Charles William MacCord, A.M., 1900 " Thomas B. Stillman, Ph.D. 

Sc.D. 1901 " David S. Jacobus, M.E. 

1895 " Charles F. Kroeh, A.M. 1902 " Adam Riesenberger, M.E. 

1903 President Alexander C. Humphreys, M.E., Sc.D., LL.D. 



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The " Stevens Life."— In the spring of 1890 the " Stevens Life " was es- 
tabhshed by several members of the Classes of 1892 and 1893 and v\^as published 
every tv^o weeks. It was devoted entirely to news concerning the students. It 
prospered for several years and continued until 1898, when its publication was en- 
tirely suspended. 

MUSICAL CLUBS 

Glee Chih. — Among the first Associations at Stevens was the Institute Glee 
Club, organized prior to 1873 with seven members. Its career covered a period 
of only two years. For a number of years thereafter there were various class and 
society glee clubs, but no regular Institute club. In 1881 an Institute Glee Club 
was organized, principally through the efforts of members of the Class of 1884. 
The first public appearance of the Institute Glee Club occurred in March, 1885, 
when it gave a successful concert in Odd Fellows Hall, Hoboken. The following 
year four concerts were given in various near-by places ; but the club had reached 
its zenith, for it soon began to decline, and finally dissolved in 1886. 

Two years later the Glee Club was reorganized. It adopted the Tonic Sol- 
Fa system on the recommendation of Prof. Kroeh, through whom the club was 
enabled to secure the services of Prof. Unseld, of New York, a gentleman of 
high standing in his profession. Abotit sixty-five members were enrolled, and 
much interest was taken in the club, which has since given, conjointly with the 
other Institute musical clubs, many successful concerts in New York, Brooklyn, 
Jersey City, Orange, Hoboken, and other places. 

Banjo Club. — The first regularly organized Stevens Banjo Club was estab- 
lished in 1888 with nine members, and assisted the Glee Club, during its first year, 
at a public concert. In 1889 it scored a decided success at a concert in Chicker- 
ing Hall, New York, in competition with clubs from other colleges. Since its 
organization it has been an important factor in the success of the many entertain- 
ments that have been given by the Institute's musical clubs. 

Mandolin Club. — The two musical clubs at Stevens received a very welcome 
addition in 1893 on the advent of the Mandolin Club, which was then organized 
through the efforts of Mr. R. W. Smith, '94, with 13 members. The Club has 
proved to be a most popular innovation and has been a very decided success. In 
1895 it contained 20 members, including 11 mandolins, 5 guitars, and 4 violins. 

Orchestra. — A College Orchestral Association was organized in 1875, with 
four flutes, three violins, one 'cello, two clarinets, and a cornet. It was successful 
for a few years. Small class and society orchestras were subsequently organized, 
but no other College orchestra existed until 1887, and then only for a short 
time. In the fall of 1903 a Stevens Orchestra was organized with eleven mem- 
bers. During its first season the Orchestra has done highly creditable work, in 
conjunction with the other musical clubs, at the regular concerts. 



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MISCELLANEOUS CLUBS AND COLLEGE CUSTOMS 

In addition to the organizations and customs referred to already, and which 
have, in general, survived to the present day, may be briefly mentioned some of 
the more prominent of the many student enterprises that have contributed to the 
pleasures of college days. They are as follows : 

Naval Reserve. — In the early part of 1896 an Engineer Division of the 
Naval Reserve of New Jersey was organized for the purpose of equipping the old 
warship " Portsmouth," which had been assigned to the above Reserves by the 
United States government, and which was stationed at Hoboken. This Engineer 
Division was effected chiefly through the efforts of B. F. Hart, Jr., '87, and E. 
W. Frazer, '90, and at one time more than 90 per cent of its membership con- 
sisted of Stevens undergraduates. Its purpose was to give the men practical in- 
struction in the running of engines and general below-deck management of 
ferryboats, tugboats, and modern warships; practice in electrical wiring and con- 
struction; torpedo practice and the planting of mine-fields under the supervision 
of experts ; the use of the Army and Navy code of signals, as well as of the Morse 
telegraph and the installation of field telegraph and telephone lines; and instruc- 
tion in infantry and artillery tactics. During the war with Spain the members 
were called upon for active service, being detailed on the U. S. S. " Badger." 

Telegraph Company. — In 1876 a local organization known as the Hobo- 
ken Domestic Telegraph Co. was established, and although not restricted to 
Stevens students they comprised a large proportion of the membership and of the 
engineering force, Members were taught telegraphy and otherwise versed in all 
matters pertaining to this subject. The line extended from Fourth to Eleventh 
streets, and from Hudson to Garden streets, and had eight offices. 

Photographic Cluh. — The first photographic club at Stevens was started in 
1882 and was known as Photocosmos. In 1888 the present Stevens Photographic 
Society was organized, and it is still a prosperous organization. An annual pub- 
lic lantern-slide exhibition of the work of this society has been given each year, 
with few exceptions, since its organization. 

Chess Cluh. — A Stevens Chess Club was organized in 1889 with 16 mem- 
bers. It has held a number of tournaments, and considerable talent has been de- 
veloped in this scientific game. The club grew from the above membership to a 
maximum of 46; it is still in a prosperous condition. 

Southern Cluh. — Outside of the densely populated community in which 
Stevens is situated, no other section of the country furnishes so large a propor- 
tion of our student body as does the Southern section. This large representation 
brought about the organization of the Southern Club in 1889, with 20 members. 

Sketch Cluh. — The many pen and pencil illustrations that had appeared in 
the Stevens annuals gave evidence of much artistic ability in the Institute, and to 
promote this talent a Sketch Club was organized in January, 1892, with 19 mem- 



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bers. Lecturers, among whom was the well-known artist, Mr. Beard, of New 
York, were secured. They gave much valuable information, which was evidently 
assimilated, and was reproduced in tangible form in the succeeding annuals, which 
acquired a reputation for their artistic merit. 

Dramatic Association. — The Stevens Dramatic Association was one of the 
first enterprises at the Institute. Although it was not of long duration, lasting only 
for three or four years, it accomplished much in the way of dramatic production, 
performing, among other pieces, "A Travestie on Hamlet," " An Ugly Customer," 
and " Cool as a Cucumber," in the Lecture Hall, for the benefit of the College 
Rowing Club and for the Gymnasium. A minstrel troupe also performed, and at 
the various entertainments very satisfactory audiences were recorded. 

A number of dramatic clubs have been formed since, but without result, 
the latest attempt being made in 1893, when a club was organized, and a play 
entitled " The Iron Mask " was written, but never performed. 

Literary Society. — Three Literary Societies are on record at Stevens ; the 
first was contemporaneous with the Dramatic organization, and the second and 
third were chiefly debating societies organized by the Classes of 1894 and 1896 re- 
spectively. An active and enthusiastic interest was developed, but unfortunately 
it passed away with the graduation of those classes. 

College Senate. — A College Senate was organized at the Institute in 1892, 
and was composed of four members in each of the Classes of 1893 ^'"■'^ 1894, two in 
each of the Classes of 1895 and 1896, and one from the Alumni, who presided at 
the meetings. It was formed for the purpose of calling mass meetings of the stu- 
dents, for representing them before the Faculty, and for taking the lead in 
dealing with disputed college affairs. Enthusiasm, however, died out with the 
graduation of the organizers. 

Cremation of Calculus. — The custom of cremating that book of the college 
course for which the students have the greatest antipathy was inaugurated at 
Stevens in March, 1878, when " Guizot's History of Civilization," then a regular 
subject in the Department of Belles-Lettres, was incinerated. 

In June, 1888, Calculus was cremated for the first time by the Class of 1890. 
It was and still is an elaborate affair, involving gorgeous costumes, brass bands, 
and much combustible material. The Cremation of Calculus is one of the notable 
events of Commencement week for the undergraduates. In 1894 President Mor- 
ton, in view of certain reforms in the above exercises, generously provided refresh- 
ments in the Institute library. In 1895 the cremation exercises were dispensed 
with for that year only, and Calculus was doomed after a mock trial held at 
Quartette Club Hall. In 1896 the regular outdoor exercises, such as prevailed 
before 1894, were resumed, and have since been continued. 

Class Rivalry. — Probably not a single year has passed that has not wit- 
nessed some new, original, and even startling manifestations of that pent-up emo- 
tion called class rivalry, between the lower classes. Undoubtedly the most 



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brilliant of these manifestations was the coup-d'etat whereby the Freshman class 
of 1 89 1 ate the dinner that the Sophomore class of 1890 had prepared for itself at 
Morello's, in New York, on the evening of February 29, 1888. 

For many years it has been the custom for the Sophomores to engage with 
the Freshmen, during the first two or three weeks of the latter's existence, in a 
physical test of one kind or another, in order that the worth of the Freshmen in 
the eyes of the undergraduates might be measured. Until 1890 the cane-rush was 
in vogue; but since then the cane-spree has been in favor, although an informal 
and unofficial cane-rush usually immediately succeeds the latter event. 

Theatre Parties. — The first theatre party mentioned at Stevens occurred at 
the Park Theatre in New York in 1878. It was entirely lacking in the class riv- 
alry which was the distinguishing feature and real object of the Hoboken theatre 
parties which were indulged in in later years. The height of class rivalry in these 
parties v^as reached in the early 'nineties. 

Eating-Clubs. — The number of eating and " hash " clubs, together with the 
various soi-disant " funny " clubs, which existed during the early days of the Insti- 
tute, is legion. Prominent among these was the Burnett Club, which was organ- 
ized in 1874 and continued for seven years. 



II 

THE STEVENS FAMILY 



II 

The Stevens Family 



A FAMILY OF ENGINEERS i 

THERE is a chapter in the history of this country during the century now 
closing which has never been presented to the general public, but which 
contains matter of the greatest interest both in relation to the develop- 
ment of our interior resources by means of steam transportation on land and water, 
and also as to the protection of our great commercial centre in and about New York 
from the possible attack of any foreign power. This chapter might well be en- 
titled, " John Stevens and His Sons as Engineers and Naval Constructors." 

On a recent public occasion Mr. Abram S. Hewitt, referring to one of 
these men, said : " That was the greatest mechanical engineer, the greatest naval 
engineer, and the greatest railroad engineer which the nineteenth century has pro- 
duced." When to this testimony I add the statements that the Camden and Am- 
boy railroad was built and operated by these men ; that for twenty years or more 
they were substantially the only builders and operators of steamboats on the Hud- 
son and Delaware rivers; and that from 1840 to i860 the harbor of New York 
was potentially protected from any possible attack of a foreign navy by a shot- 
proof steam ram (far more powerful than the famous " Merrimac") which dur- 
ing all these years lay under construction in a dry dock belonging to the Stevens 
family at Hoboken, and which at any time could have been finished and could have 
destroyed an entire fleet of the vessels of that day, — then there is reason enough 
evident Avhy the chapter mentioned should be written and presented to the public. 

The facts to which I have referred above are so little known among the pub- 
lic at large that many, no doubt, will find themselves hardly able to accept them 
at first; but the evidence available is abundant, as I shall make clear presently. 
The main reason why the work of John Stevens and his sons has not been prom- 
inent in the public eye is that all these men were disposed rather to avoid than 
to seek notoriety, and were, moreover, possessed of such considerable wealth 



iThis article was written by T. C. Martin E.E., at the instance of President Morton, for use in connec- 
tion with the exercises of the Twenty-fifth Anniversary. It was published in the " Cosmopolitan Magazine " for 
May, 1898. More detailed records on which the statements in this article rest may be found on pp. io6 et seq. 




Colonel John Stevens 

From a Marble Bust at Castle Point 



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that they could carry out their projects with httle or no outside financial assist- 
ance, and thus had no reason for bringing their plans before the public. 

The close of February, 1897, beginning with the i8th of that month, wit- 
nessed the celebrations attendant upon the Twenty-fifth Anniversary of the Stev- 
ens Institute of Technology at Hoboken, N. J., created by the generosity of Mr. 
Edwin A. Stevens. The initial feature of this celebration was a banquet of three 
hundred covers at the Hotel Waldorf, at which the speakers and their topics 
brought out in sequence the history of the institution as well as the great work 
of the three engineers to whom for more than a century was due no small part of 
American advance in the arts of peace and war. That work it is the object of this 
paper to set forth. 

Col. John Stevens was born in New York, in 1749, of English lineage. He 
was a graduate of King's College (now Columbia University) in 1768; a mem- 
ber of the New York bar in 1771 ; treasurer of New Jersey during the perilous 
days of the Revolution; and a pioneer citizen alike of New York city and Ho- 
boken, where he located his family estate. He was not forty years of age when 
he saw John Fitch's steamboat making headway against the tide on the Dela- 
ware, off Burlington, N. J., and was at once seized with enthusiasm as to the new 
means of locomotion. He examined the boat and her mechanism, and in 1792, 
vmder the new patent S3'stem he had himself petitioned into existence, he took out 
patents for steam propulsion. Experiments were hotly pushed, and in 1798, near- 
ly a decade before Fulton ran his " Clermont," Col. Stevens had a steamboat on 
the Hudson, as builder, owner, and captain. Six 3^ears later he equipped with 
double screws another predecessor of Fulton's craft. The short four-bladed screw 
which he designed has shown great vitality as against later comers ; and Mr. 
Abram Hewitt's father, who remembered being a passenger on the first Stevens 
boat, built for her at the Soho Works at Belleville, N. J., the first condensing 
double-acting engine made on this continent. Col. John Stevens continued pro- 
lific in invention and enterprise. He patented the multitubular boiler in the United 
States in 1803, and in England in 1805; established in 181 1, between Hoboken 
and New York, the first steam ferry in the world; in 1812, before work began 
on the Erie Canal, he urged on the State authorities of New York the superiority 
of a railroad; before 1812 he made steam navigation on the Delaware a com- 
mercial success, with his son Robert; in 1813 he designed an ironclad ship which 
fully embodied the " Monitor " type, and was the first ironclad ever worked out 
for construction; in 1813 also he put into operation the first of numerous double- 
hull ferryboats carrying a paddle-wheel driven by circling horses; in 181 7 he 
obtained a charter, the first in America, for a railroad from the Delaware to the 
Raritan; in 1823 he secured acts of legislature for the incorporation of the Penn- 
sylvania Railroad; and in 1826 he built a steam locomotive with multitubular 
boiler, which he operated on a circular track at twelve miles an hour, carrying 
passengers; at his own expense, on his own property in Hoboken. This was the 



84 THE STEVENS INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY 

first engine and train that ever ran on a railroad in America — btiilt by a man 
verging- on his eightieth year! 

Such a record as this, very few men are permitted to make. The engi- 
neering events it includes are of wonderful magnitude; their effect on the de- 
velopment of the United States is still working itself out in widening rings. To 
have forewarned us of the collapse of the popular canal system, in which $214,- 
000,000 of public money is now well-nigh hopelessly sunk, reveals prescience of 
exceptional character. To have set on foot vast transportation enterprises re- 
quired quite different capacities, but here again, like Vanderbilt, he was success- 
ful ; for, aside from his own work, other schemes, like that of the South Carolina 
Railroad in 1829, were based on his plans and recommendations. Then to have 
turned from all these victories of peaceful commerce and to have laid down the 
lines on which the naval warfare of the world was to be completely revolution- 
ized, was to round out a figure of heroic proportions. 

So fast is the pace of these later days, so crowded is their multiplication 
of discoveries, refinements, processes, that we are apt to belittle the beginnings 
and forget the beginners. This is a fitting place to raise one memorial at least. 
We are not pausing to speak of private qualities, or something might be said of 
Col. Stevens's studies in metaphysical philosophy, his experiments in botany, and 
his love of plants and flowers. These pursuits, enough to fill many cultivated and 
useful lives, were for him the recreations of none too ample leisure, the ornamen- 
tal, softer side of a genius cast in a large mold. 

Bred a lawyer and always a man of affairs, John Stevens had in him also 
the qualities that distinguish the great engineers. These were markedly perpetu- 
ated in his son. Robert Livingston Stevens; just as in the other son, Edwin A. Stev- 
ens, his financial acumen and business sagacity were so signally exemplifi.ed on 
the broader plan of larger times. Robert was born in the very year when his 
father saw that tiny, primitive paddle-wheeler of Fitch struggling up the Delaware, 
and as a lad of seventeen he assisted in 1804 in the construction of the first screw 
steamboat. Five years later, barely of age, he took the side-wheeler " Phoenix " 
from New York to Philadelphia by sea in June, in spite of a storm which ren- 
dered welcome the temporary shelter of Barnegat Inlet. This was the first sea 
trip of a steam-propelled craft. Col. Stevens and his son had been barred from 
navigation on the Hudson by the monopoly accorded to Fulton and their power- 
ful relative Livingston. Many men would have accepted defeat, but they deter- 
mined simply to take their boat around to the Delaware, and therefore pushed 
boldly out into the Atlantic ; thus out of their deep discouragement snatching im- 
mortal honors. For the resolute there is ever the open sea. 

It was now as a builder of steamships that Robert Stevens made himself 
famous, each successive boat being faster until in 1832, with the handsome "North 
America," using forced draft, he attained a speed of fifteen miles an hour. For a 
quarter of a century, and while he gave his chief attention to that line of work, 



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85 



he stood at the head of the naval engineering profession in this country ; and his 
inventions and improvements up to 1840 were so valuable and numerous that a 
bare catalogue would fill pages. We may specify, for example, the invention, as 
early as 1818, of the cam-board cut-off, being the first use of steam expansively 
for navigation purposes ; the universally prevalent forms of ferry-boat and ferry- 
slip, the overhanging guards, the fenders, the spring piling; the adoption of the 
walking-beam in 1821; the invention of the split water-wheel in 1826; the inven- 
tion of the balance valve for beam engines in 1831 ; the location of the steamboat 




The Original John Stevens Boat Engine of 1804 

Now in the National Museum, Washington, D. C. 



boilers on the wheel-guards ; the increase of strength in the boilers until they 
could stand fifty pounds to the square inch, although English naval engineers had 
got no further than five pounds as late as 1848. 

Nothing could be sharper than the ordinary contrast between the lines of a 
steamboat and those of a fine clipper, yet it was Robert L. Stevens Avho designed 
and built in 1844 the " Maria," a yacht literally as fast as his steamers. She was 
the conqueror of the "America " just before the latter went across the Atlantic to 
capture, in the Solent, the famous cup which now gleams on Uncle Sam's side- 
board, for the British an object of, apparently, as hopeless a quest as that for the 



86 THE STEVENS INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY 

Holy Grail. In i860 Commodore Stevens, on the " Maria," overhauled and sailed 
around the fast revenue-cutter "Harriet Lane," carrying the Prince of Wales; 
and she remained the fleetest of her school on the Atlantic coast until 1869, when 
she made a poetically mysterious disappearance off the face of the waters, no one 
knowing to this hour whither she went or what became of her. 

Before dealing with another and even more exciting chapter of naval his- 
tory in the life of the younger Stevenses, we must go back a few years to pick up 
the thread of their pioneer work in railroad construction and operation. As a re- 
sult of its steamboat enterprises the family had become deeply interested in the 
travelling facilities between New York and Philadelphia, their three-linked water 
and land route between the two cities covering loi miles. Col. John Stevens, 
convinced by his own success with steam in boats, was early satisfied that he could 




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The Locomotive " John Bull 

Tablet on the Pennsylvania Railroad Moinini 



do even better with it on tracks. He had applied for charters, had operated ex- 
perimentally his own locomotive, and had done all that was possible to educate 
public opinion on the subject. iVnd now in 1830 came the incorporation of the 
famous Camden and Amboy Railroad, with Robert L. Stevens as its president 
and chief engineer, and Edwin A. Stevens as its treasurer. Its object was in real- 
ity to take over the enormous stage-coach traffic already built up by the celebrated 
Union Line, with its steamboats on the Raritan and Delaware, and its scores of 
four-horse lightning coaches that shuttled to and fro on the Trenton and New 
Brunswick turnpike. But while the business was ready, all the crude problems 
of steam railway locomotion had to be squarely met, and the first step was taken 
by Robert Stevens in his trip to England the same year, which had seen also the 
opening of the Liverpool and Manchester railway as a great national event. Be- 
fore leaving he had obtained permission from his directors to buy an all-iron rail 
in preference to wooden rail or the stone stringer thinly plated with strap iron. 



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87 



In those days there were no rolHng-mills in America to make T-rails, and as labor 
and metal in this country were scarce and dear, he wished to get a rail that would 
dispense with the chair to hold it in place. During the long voyage to Liverpool, 
in good Yankee fashion he whittled bits of wood into various shapes, and finally 
selected the form in which a suitable base was added to the T-rail, making a con- 
tinuous foot or flange and dispensing with the chair. The moment he landed on the 
Mersey shore he asked for bids on five hundred tons of this form, since known 
universally as the Stevens or American rail, and now the general form used by 
every road in the United States. Concurrently Mr. Stevens designed the hook- 
headed spike, which is the ordinary railroad spike of the present day, the " iron 




The " Phcenix/' the First Sea-Going Steamship, Making 
Barnegat Inlet, N. J., in a Storm, 1809. 

tongue " or tie-piece which has grown into the fish-plate, and the bolts and nuts 
required to give integrity to the track construction. 

Shortly after his arrival in England Mr. Stevens saw the " Planet " of the 
Stephensons at work on the Liverpool line, and at once ordered a locomotive 
of the same character for his own road. This purchase, the " John Bull," was 
landed in August, 183 1, and was put together immediately. She weighed ten tons, 
with a boiler thirteen feet long by three and a half feet in diameter; cylinders, 
nine inches by twenty ; a fire-box surf ace of thirty-six feet; four driving-wheels; 
and a rail gauge of five feet between centres. There was no tender. The fuel 
and water were carried on a rough four-wheeled flat car; the tank consisted of a 
whiskey-barrel from a Bordentown storekeeper ; and the hose leading to the boiler 
was made of leather by a local shoemaker. When fired up with pine wood, and with 



88 THE STEVENS INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY 

steam reading on a scale at thirty pounds pressure, this august combination moved 
off, to the rehef and intense deHght of those who were staking their fortunes 
heavily on her success. Just as nowadays we see fixtures to give either gas or 
electric light, so two coaches were built to be hauled either by the locomotive 
or by horses ; and thus the road settled down to business, not, however, without 
appropriate ceremonies, a vast amount of newspaper talk, and the beginning of a 
series of improvements which have done much to give us the distinctive American 
railroad of to-day with all its remarkable differentiations and adjustments to the 
needs and conditions of this country. The record of the road reveals the trial 
or adoption of many things now familiar to every . schoolboy — the first pilot, 
planned in 1832 by Robert L. Stevens; spiking the rail directly to the cross-tie; the 
bogie truck and forms of the vestibuled car; methods of wood-preservation; and 
a host of other features whose permanence depended largely on approval by this 
foremost among the pioneer railroads of America. 

iVmong illustrations of the primitive apprehension of such subjects as rail- 
way management at the outset, it may be mentioned that during the early days 
of the running with steam on the Camden and Amboy railroad a man on a fast 
racehorse was sent ahead of the train by Mr. Stevens to clear the road and warn 
away possible intruders from the line. This was the more easy of accomplishment 
as one of the Stevens brothers, who had previously superintended the supply of 
horses for the stage route, possessed a fine stud. 

It is also recorded that on one of the earliest trial trips the locomotive, 
coming upon a curve in the track at considerable speed, as the necessity of rais- 
ing the grade of the outer rail had not been realized, left the track and took its 
way down an embankment into- a neighboring field, where some men were em- 
ployed cradling wheat. These men, in not unnatural alarm, fled with prompt 
alacrity ; and did not come to a pause until they had placed two fields between 
themselves and the seemingly pursuing monster. 

Complex and difficult beyond most institutions to manage, the railroad 
may be said to have called into existence a new type of " captains of industrv." 
In the earlier days, functions in railroad management now discharged by several 
responsible heads at large salaries were faintly distinguished, and were all left 
to the care of some one man whose success became an immediate test of his wide 
ability. The world was born anew when steam was hitched to its wheels ; and 
with new powers of locomotion the human race began its career all over again at 
a faster gait than of old. The railroad managers who first grappled with the 
conditions of the work, while without our experience of fifty years in its novel 
developments and relationships, had also but poor adumbrations and sketchy out- 
lines of the actual gigantic problems confronting them in politics, in financial af- 
fairs, in the changes of life and custom due to travel, in the jealousies of great 
commonwealths and cities, in the passion against monopoly, in the needs of a 
growing population, in the handling of multitudinous armies of employees, in 



A FAMILY OF ENGINEERS 89 

meeting competition wisely, and in maintaining the health of the intangible but 
very real corporation which is itself the great underlying power and cause. When 
Mr. Edwin Augustus Stevens became the active business manager of the Camden 
and Amboy railroad, all the intricate fundamental principles and methods just 
hinted at had to be discovered or worked out ; but his genius and training were all 
in the line of harmonious predisposition for the great task. A seventh son, he 
was born at Castle Point, Hoboken, in 1795. At the age of twenty-five, by fam- 
ily agreement, he became trustee of the bulk of the paternal estate. At the age 



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The Yacht " Maria," Rigged as a Sloop, off Castle Point, Hoboken, N. J. 



of thirty he took charge of the huge transportation system known as the Union 
Line. At thirty-five he became the treasurer and manager of its offspring, this 
pioneer steam railroad ; and at once there sprang into light and full vigor his splen- 
did qualities of initiative, executive, and diplomacy. Merely to state that during 
the thirty-five years of his management of the Camden and Amboy road its stock 
appreciated steadily in value and never passed a dividend, would be sufficient 
indication of masterly skill ; but it tells a very significant part of the story. Not 
onl)^ had the " property " to be created, but it had to be conserved amid all the 
storms of political intrigue and commercial rivalry ; through all the stress of finan- 



90 THE STEVENS INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY 

cial disaster and national trouble; despite all the vicissitudes due to the redistri- 
bution of population and the shifting of industries. Mr. Stevens was a keen dis- 
cerner of ability in other men. He allied with himself the best engineers of the 
time. He enlisted in the company's service the best legal talent of the State. He 
combated political onslaught and conciliated public sentiment; he saw the first 
compacts made between the conflicting railroad and canal interests, assisted in 
successive extensions or consolidations, and was quick to begin again new rail- 
road work in New Jersey when released from earlier responsibilities. 




Edwin A. Stevens 

The magnificent bequest of Mr. Edwin A. Stevens, endowing the Stevens 
Institute, will be referred to later, and in succeeding paragraphs reference will be 
made to the other great national work in which he was associated with his brother. 
But this epitome of a noble life would not be complete without mention of his 
engineering talent, which apparently takes place below that of his brother chiefly 
because he gave his energies to business. While still a young man he invented 
the Stevens plough, which was long made and sold in large quantities under his 
patent, and which brought him into very close touch with the agricultural inter- 
ests of the country. But even more noteworthy was his invention, patented in 
April, 1842, of the airtight fire-room, one of the important features to be found 
in the warships of every modern navy for their forced draft. He may, in fact, be 



A FAMILY OF ENGINEERS 91 

said to have taken up steamship improvement at the point where his elder brother 
Robert left it as age came on. 

While assiduously devoted to the arts of peace, none of the three Stevenses 
could altogether forget the scriptural fact that spears were a prerequisite to prun- 
ing-hooks. In 181 2 Col. John Stevens had projected his interesting circular fort, 
rotated by steam, for the defense of New York harbor; and before the year of 
Waterloo, young Edwin, under guidance of his father, was hard at work experi- 
menting with a six-pounder bronze cannon against some iron plating, and antici- 
pating the prolonged savage contest between projectile and armor whose end is 
not yet. Later again, in 1841, Mr. Edwin A. Stevens, at an anxious period when 
hostilities with England threatened, took up the subject, with laminated plates, 
just as during the previous troubles with the same country Robert had experi- 
mented with bombs to be fired from cannon and had sold to the government the 
secret for a percussion shell. From tests made at Bordentown, N. J., in 1841, 
Mr. Edwin A. Stevens reached the conclusion that four and a half inches of iron 
sheathing would withstand sixty-four-pound shot at thirty yards from the marine 
guns of the day; and eighteen years later the first English ironclad, as well as a 
French frigate, donned an armor of exactly that thickness. The brothers Edwin A. 
and John C. submitted to a board appointed by President Tyler their views and data 
on the subject, in a document full of accurate forecasts on the coming principles 
in naval warfare ; and after the armor tests had been repeated at Sandy Hook 
before the official authorities. Congress, in 1842, voted $250,000 to Robert L. Stev- 
ens for the construction of a war steamer, shot and shell proof. Robert and Ed- 
win dug a dry dock at Hoboken immediatel}^ and began work on the steamer. A 
little later, however, the terms of the contract were changed, to make the armor 
superior to newer penetrating powers ; and this process of interruption and delay 
was kept up until 1856, when Robert died, leaving the Stevens Battery in the basin 
at Hoboken, partially finished, with twin-screw engines and boiler in position. She 
was then four hundred and ten feet long; forty-fi.ve feet inside the armor shelf, 
with two feet of freeboard, and with a square immovable turret enclosing depressi- 
ble guns. She was similar to the boats of the " Monitor " class built six years 
after by Erics'son, except that the latter had circular turrets embodying the idea 
of revolution, as suggested for the whole ship by Col. John Stevens at the begin- 
ning of the century, and for the individual guns by Robert L. Stevens about 
1840. That the Stevens Battery would have been irresistible as a ram and invul- 
nerable as a fort is easy to be seen; but the Stevenses were condemned in this 
case, by official obstruction, to undeserved failure ; while Ericsson, with happier 
conditions, was able to seize the supreme moment, and by a conclusive demon- 
stration do much to determine the fortunes of our country. It is among the 
memorable links between events that one of the present faculty of the Stevens 
Institute was able, as the draughtsman and representative of Ericsson, by his en- 
ergetic and intelligent action, to send the rather erratic " Monitor " off upon her 



92 THE STEVENS INSTTfUTE OF TECHNOLOGY 

memorable trip to Hampton Roads in time to render never-to-be-forgotten serv- 
ice on the 7th of March, 1862. 

Robert L. Stevens left to Edwin A., somewhat in the nature of a sacred 
trust, the floating battery which his fancy had depicted doing such valiant service 
for his country. Preceding in conception and construction by more than ten years 
the little French ironclads seen at Kinburn in 1854, she was still a highly availa- 
ble vessel, and in 1861 Edwin A. and John C. offered to complete her at their own 
■expense if the government would simply reimburse them after her utility had 
been proved. But the fates were against her, and she lay undisturbed until after 
the death of Mr. Edwin A. Stevens, who bequeathed her, with a million of dollars 
for completion, to the State of New Jersey. This sum was expended in 1869 and 
1870, but the vessel was not launched, and in 1881 she was torn to pieces and her 
materials were disposed of. The family had not, however, wanted in courage — 
or in patriotism either, for that matter — while the war was raging, but at their 
own expense built and fitted out the " Naugatuck." This craft, accepted by the 
government, was one of the fleet that attacked the " Merrimac." She was pro- 
pelled by twin screws ; carried a single gun of heavy calibre ; could turn from end 
to end in seventy-five seconds ; could be immersed three feet below her load-line, 
and could come again to full visibility in eight minutes by pumping. And so, 
having, against much injustice, prejudice, and discrimination, done their part when 
national perils were greatest, the Stevens family closed with credit and honor this 
chapter of their history. Might it not be suggested that here were noble deeds 
and a lofty intent still awaiting proper recognition? 

It is worthy of note, moreover, that although the Stevens Battery was 
never launched, and of course, therefore, was never in actual conflict, yet for 
the twenty years which intervened between 1840 and i860 she was potentially 
effective for the protection of New York and its harbor from any attack which 
might have been made by a foreign fleet. 

During these years, though constantly undergoing alteration and recon- 
struction, she was at all times in a condition which would have admitted of her 
rapid completion, had an emergency arisen, on the plans which were for the mo- 
ment being carried out, and these plans were always so far in advance of gen- 
eral naval construction that if so finished she would have been a match for a fleet 
of the best vessels of the world at the same date. Thus, while the naval arma- 
ment of the world was light, her original armor of four and a half inches would 
have rendered her invulnerable to the shot of an enemy, while her shell-guns would 
have meant certain destruction to any vessel not provided, like herself, with an 
armor capable of keeping out all such shells. As the size and penetrating power 
of cannon-shot were increased, so was the provision for heavier armor made in 
the Stevens Battery, and her own guns were at the same time enlarged in the suc- 
cessive designs. 

It is interesting to know that the utility of a marine ram in naval warfare 



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93 



was brought home to the mind of Mr, Stevens by an accident which occurred on 
the Hudson River at an early period. One of the swift wooden steamboats, by 
reason of some derangement of her steering-gear, ran into a " crib " dock, cutting 
through the massive timbers of the crib and penetrating the body of stone with 
which the crib was filled for a distance of twenty feet. After this performance 
she backed out and went on her way, having suffered no material injury. If, ar- 
gued Mr. Stevens, a frail wooden hull could accomplish this, how irresistible must 
be the blow delivered by an iron steamer specially constructed with a view to such 
work, and armed with an immense steel prow shaped like the blade of an axe 
and solidly attached to and supported by the entire framework of the vessel. 




The Stevens Battery Shelling an Enemy's Fleet in the Bay of New York ^ 

Turning now to those paths of peace fuller of pleasantness than the grim 
arena of war, we may tell briefly how the Stevens Institute of Technology took 
root and grew as a seat of scientific and technical culture. Here we have the best, 
the most lasting monument of the Stevens family ; for, while steamboats and rail- 
roads and warships may disappear from the earth, the intellectual and spiritual 
work of such a place can never fade away. Mr. Edwin A. Stevens, dying in 1868, 
left by will land in Hoboken, a building fund, and an endowment fund, so that his 
executors might create the Institute. This was done, and, the nature of the college 
having been left for their decision, they wisely resolved to make it a centre for 



1 From a painting made at the suggestion of the late President Morton, to illustrate Mr. Stevens's 
caption of the Battery in action. 



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hitherto neglected mechanical engineering study, so that the wealth which had been 
derived largely from steam and transportation might return to fructify its origin. 
Thus the work began which up to 1895 had sent out from the Institute no fewer 
than five hundred and fifty-one graduates, of whom nearly five hundred to-day are 
occupying positions of honor and responsibility in the fields of work for which it 
was the special aim to educate them/ 

In no respect has failed the ambition to establish firmly one more place for 
the preservation of ancient knowledge, one more fountain for the refreshment 




The Stevens Battery Drawing Back After Ramming a Frigate" 

and stimulus of studious youth, one more quiet asylum for the patient, devoted in- 
vestigator. Nor has the growth of the foundation ceased. With the celebration 
of February, 1897, came the announcement that Mrs. E. A. Stevens, widow of the 
founder and a trustee under his will, had added to its resources real estate valued 
at $30,000; with the further news that Dr. Morton had addeid to his previous 
donations, aggregating $50,000, railroad securities worth $10,000, and that other 
members of the Faculty and friends were contributing toward the proposed new 
building and the equipment of various departments of instruction. 



iber of graduates up to and including the Class of 1904 is 1,088. 



See footnote on p. 93. 



REMINISCENCES OF THE STEVENS FAMILY 95 

The exhibit made at the celebration by the graduates constituted in itself an 
ample justification for the existence of the Institute. Twenty-five years ago the 
mechanical engineering professions had barely suggested their present prominence, 
and many of the mechanical inventions that have rendered the age memorable 
had not been born. This display, comprehensive and compact, could not then 
have been made, but it now signalized the readiness with which young men well 
trained had gone out into the world and had adapted themselves to the later 
conditions or had shaped the newer environment of the race. Plant for power gener- 
ation, transmission, or conversion ; electricity in its varied work ; apparatus to grat- 
ify the civilized passion for utmost accuracy in measurements ; invention in its latest 
reaches ; journalism in its most authoritative technical organs ; literature in its 
standard technical books, — ■ these, in suggestive contrast to the Stevens relics with 
their records of pioneer triumph, formed an exhibition that summed up felicitously 
the glory of a great benefaction and all the marvellous progress of the century. 



PERSONAL REMINISCENCES OF THE STEVENS FAMILY 

At the Banquet held at the Waldorf-Astoria Hotel, New York, on the occa- 
sion of the Twenty-fifth Anniversary of the founding of the Stevens Institute of 
Technology, February 18, 1897,' in response to the toast, " Our Founders," Mr. 
Abram S. Hewitt said in part : 

" I suppose I am the only person in this room, and one of the very few persons 
alive, who can say that he has seen and known the entire family from its founder, John 
Stevens, who was born in 1749, before the Revolution, as well as his children, grand-chil- 
dren, and great-grandchildren, who have gathered around the old ancestral home on the other 
side of the Hudson River. It may seem strange that any one should be here who knew the 
elder John Stevens, but it so happened that when I was a boy of about six years of age 
I was taken by my father to Hoboken for the purpose of being introduced to John Stevens, 
because at that early age I had witnessed from the wharf at the foot of Jay Street a mag- 
nificent steamer, with four ponderous smoke-stacks, passing rapidly up the Hudson River, 
and had asked whose steamer it was and where it was going. My father told me that there 
were two of these boats, the finest in the world, and that they had been built by the Stev- 
ens family of Hoboken. I said, 'Do you know the Stevens family?' to which he replied, 
' Yes. I will take you to Hoboken and let you see the greatest engineer of his time.' 

"And so before 1830, somewhere between 1828 and 1830, I was taken to Hoboken 
and introduced to John Stevens, who was then a man of eighty-three years of age, but in 
possession of all his faculties, and manifesting the greatest possible interest in this visit from 
an old friend and a young boy. Familiarly he called my father ' John,' for both bore the 
same name, and my father said, 'This is my son. I want him to see you and know you,' 
and then they began to talk of old times and particularly of this remarkable story, which 
was often repeated to me by my father, or else possibly I should not remember it so well. 

" My father was the draughtsman and pattern-maker who had come out from 

^A full account of the addresses at this banquet may be found in the " Stevens Indicator" for April, 1897. 



96 THE STEVENS INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY 

England, with a party of machinists, to erect the first stationary double-acting condensing- 
engine which was put at work upon the American continent. It was built by Boulton & 
Watt at the Soho Works, near Birmingham, England, and was brought out and erected at 
Centre Square in Philadelphia for the purpose of supplying that city with water, before 
the Eairmount Works on the Schuylkill River were erected. In a monograph which I have 
seen it is stated that John Stevens saw the first engine that was ' built ' in America : but he 
did more than this; he not only saw the first condensing-engine that was erected in Amer- 
ica, but he had built for himself the first Watt engine which was constructed in America; 
for that party of men, at the head of whom was an engineer of the name of Smallman — 
whose name possibly none of you have ever heard — and whose ironfounder was a man 
named Rhode, the predecessor and instructor of James P. Allaire, who founded the Allaire 
Works in this city, where many of the engines which were subsequently designed by the 
Stevens family were built, — these men, with my father as draughtsman and pattern-maker, 
erected a new Soho Works at Belleville, N. J., near the old copper mines known usually as 
the Schuyler mines. There John Stevens came, and there he- had built the first low-pres- 
sure engine that was constructed upon the American continent. He therefore not only saw 
the first one erected, but he himself ordered and paid for the first condensing double-acting 
engine that was built upon the American continent. 

" Of course this interview with John Stevens made a profound impression upon my 
mind, and on my way home my father said: ' Yes, that engine was put in a boat in which 
I traversed the route from Belleville to New York and back again, John Stevens being the 
owner, the builder, and the captain of the boat, and Mr. Smallman, Mr. Rhode, and myself 
being the passengers ; and we came to New York in that boat nine years before Eulton put 
the " Clermont " on the Hudson.' 

" Portions of the engine thus constructed were for a time preserved in the Stevens 
Institute, and must be there still unless they have been placed in the National Museum at 
Washington ; but the boat in which the engine was placed must not be confounded with the 
one, whose model I -see here upon the table, built later, in 1804, with a double screw, and 
which preceded Fulton's boat by four or five years. I only remember that the Belleville 
boat had a stern wheel, and my father said that Mr. Stevens, during the trip, remarked 
that wheels should have been placed upon the side and not at the stern. But upon this 
ground I shall not further trespass, as I understand the subject has been assigned for a 
more competent authority to deal with in the course of the evening. . . . 

" Personally I saw no more of the Stevens family until the year 1846, more than 
fifty years ago, when Mr. Edwin Stevens sent for me one day and said that the Camden & 
Amboy Railroad Co. wanted to get two thousand tons of rails, and that it was impossible, 
owing to the great scarcity of the article, to procure them in time to be laid in that year. 
He said, however, that he was prepared to pay the cost of importation if my firm would 
undertake to make the rails at a price which will make the mouth of my friend Carnegie 
water, or to use the more orthodox Scotch phraseology — ' will make him lick his chops 
with envy ' — when I tell him that the price offered was ninety dollars per ton. We had 
just built a little rolling-mill at Trenton for the manufacture of wire. Now wire is very 
much the reverse of a railroad bar. Mr. Stevens said, ' I want you to make two thousand 
tons of rails, weighing sixty-five pounds to the yard,' which was the heaviest rail at that 
tiine ever made in the world. I afterward discovered that the pattern, like all the inven- 
tions of the Stevens family, was peculiar, and somewhat difficult to roll. Nevertheless, I 
finally agreed to make the attempt, and as a matter of fact we succeeded in delivering two 
thousand tons of rails, for which we received the sum of one hundred and eighty thousand 
dollars in hard cash, an amount sufficient at this time to pay for ten thousand tons of rails 
according to the latest quotations which Mr. Carnegie has just whispered in my ear. 



REMINISCENCES OF THE STEVENS FAMILY 97 

" Robert L. Stevens, as you all know, was the designer of what is known as the 
flange rail. He had it made in Wales at the works of Sir John Guest, and with such ex- 
pedition that within two years from the time of midertaking the practical scheme of build- 
ing the Camden and Amboy railroad, that road was constructed, running, and carrying 
passengers and freight with entire success between the cities of New York and Philadel- 
phia. Robert L. Stevens and his brother Edwin, who was the business manager of the 
enterprise, thus performed in two years a feat which at that time, if you will consider the 
development of the mechanical arts, the state of the financial transactions of the world, 
and the unknown elements which entered into the problem, was a greater performance than 
if any man were now to undertake to build a road from New York to San Francisco in two 
years. The world never saw a greater triumph than the con.struction of that road. . . . 

" John C, Robert, and Edwin Stevens had subordinates, they had trusted men, they 
had tried assistants, but the superintendence of the work to the minutest part was done by 
themselves personally. Together they built railroads, and ferries, and steamboats, and 
yachts, and ironclad batteries ; and this suggests the first lesson which I would draw from 
this necessarily sketchy statement for the benefit of the young men who are here assem- 
bled. It is this, that these three brothers worked as though they were one man. No one 
ever heard of any quarrel or dissension in the Stevens family. They were workmen them- 
selves, and they were superior to their subordinates only because they were better engineers 
and better men of business than any people who up to that time had undertaken the busi- 
ness of transportation within the limits of the United States. More than any other men 
whom I have ever known, they demonstrated the truth of the saying, ' Behold, how pleasant 
a thing it is for brethren to dwell together in unity.' 

" But I am asked to speak especially of the Founder. 1 have been speaking of the 
founders, John Stevens the elder, John C. Stevens, Robert L. Stevens, and Edwin A. 
Stevens, who were the founders and pioneers who have made this country what it is, — the 
miracle of the ages, the admiration of the world. No one who cannot go back as I can 
to the time when there were no railways, to the time when there were no ocean steamers, 
when there were no telegraphs, no telephones, no armored navies, no access to any point 
beyond the Mohawk Valley, when the great West was yet unsettled, when this great em- 
pire was a wilderness, — no one who cannot recall this primitive condition of things and 
did not see it can realize what the Stevens family has done for America. 

" I have said enough of the achievements of this remarkable family, but I have not 
said enough of the other side of their personality — the lovely, gentle, sweet, and human 
character which belonged to the father and to the three brothers of whom I have spoken. 
I told you that I was a poor and diffident boy, yet when I was brought into contact with 
them I never was made to feel that there was any difference in social standing, in wealth, 
in years, or even in ability. I was welcomed to Castle Point in my early youth just as I 
would be to-day by the honored mistress of that noble mansion. They did not believe that 
the acquisition of wealth was sufficient for the development of human nature. They knew 
that the emotional side of man's nature controls in the long run, and that the reason is 
always the servant of the imagination. Hence, when they ran stage coaches, they had fine 
horses; when they ran boats for profit to Albany, they adorned them with pictures and 
beautiful objects. The sense of beauty was ever present in everything they did. Their 
leisure hours were regaled by the charms of art and music. I suppose no connoisseur 
who ever lived in New York was superior to Robert Stevens in his knowledge of music, 
and no man ever lived who enjoyed it more. I heard him once tell how, when for the first 
time he heard the angelic notes of Malibran, the golden gates of Paradise seemed to open, 
and the heavenly hosts to be lost in adoration. . . . 



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" The Stevens Institute was created by Mr. Stevens's will, which was signed on the 
15th of April, 1S67, on the night before Mrs. Stevens and her children sailed on the ' Great 
Eastern ' with Mr. Stevens for that trip from which he was never to return. It was my 
good fortune — in fact, it was my understanding with him — that I should accompany him. 
He was very anxious to understand the ' Great Eastern,' and so was everybody that ever 
had anything to do with that ship, — and I doubt if anybody succeeded. I only refer to it 
on this occasion because from the time we left New York until we arrived at Brest she 
was subjected to a chapter of accidents of a very amusing character. Mrs. Stevens will 
remember that it was a matter of wonderment every day what was going to happen next, 
for everything did happen that nobody wanted to happen during that eventful voyage. 
I refer to it now because I had many conversations with Mr. Stevens on the subject of the 
Stevens Institute. Mr. Peter Cooper, my father-in-law, had founded the Cooper Institute, 
and it had been in operation for eight years at that time. Mr. Stevens was very anxious to 
know exactly the methods upon which it was conducted, and how far it had fulfilled the ex- 
pectations of the founder. Of course I explained to him that Mr. Cooper was a mechanic, 
and that he had founded his institution for mechanics ; that as the Stevens family were en- 
gineers it was natural and fitting in every way that the institution which he proposed tO' 
found should be devoted to the education of engineers. I explained to him that all the 
resources of the Cooper Union were used in giving the education which the mechanic 
needed, and that what was wanted in this country was a higher institution which could 
start where the mechanic ended, and produce the engineers who were to become the leaders 
of modern enterprise and the captains of industry. 

" Mr. Stevens entered heartily into this view of the subject, so that I have reason 
to know that while the language of the will provides for ' an institution of learning,' Presi- 
dent Morton, with the approval of Mrs. Stevens, Mr. Dod, and Mr. Shippen, as trustees, 
merely carried into effect the views which Mr. Stevens entertained as to the objects of the 
institution and the position which it should occupy in the domain of education. 

" But I referred to the voyage which we took together for the purpose mainly of 
showing some of the traits in the character of Mr. Stevens which made him so interesting 
and so lovable to all his friends. The ' Great Eastern ' for want of funds had but a scanty 
supply of bituminous coal which was supplemented by a stock of anthracite which not a 
stoker on board had ever used or even seen. The captain. Sir James Anderson, came to us 
and asked what he should do. So Mr. Stevens and I, old as he was, and younger as I was 
then, crawled down through many devious passages until we reached the boiler-room, and 
there found a very discouraged lot of people who were trying to burn anthracite coal in the 
same manner as they would burn bituminous coal. Of course the fire went out, and you 
will be surprised to learn that he and I, and mostly he, spent nearly two days in the boiler- 
room, teaching the stokers how to burn anthracite coal, which we succeeded in doing and 
were finally landed at Brest. This is a simple illustration of the character of this remarka- 
ble man. 

" The Stevens family of the last generation were creators as well as founders. 
You gentlemen who have profited by the beneficence and foresight of Edwin A. Stevens 
are reaping the fruits of the seed which they in their day and generation sowed so abun- 
dantly. They were men of not only great sagacity and untiring energy, but of a high order 
of courage and fortitude. When Robert L. Stevens found that Fulton had preceded him 
by a few weeks in placing the ' Clermont ' on the Hudson, and thus securing the monopoly 
of the navigation of that river, he boldly took the ' Phcenix ' by sea from New York to 
Philadelphia, thus gaining the imperishable glory of having been the first man to traverse 
the ocean with a boat propelled by steam. The honor is increased by the fact that while 



RFXOGNITION OF ENGINEERING ACHIEVEMENTS 99 

Fulton had imported his engine from England, Stevens used one which he had constructed 
in America, and which I believe in part to have been the identical one which I have re- 
ferred to as used in the boat propelled from Belleville to New York in 1799. . . . 

" When, at the beginning of the late Civil War, the necessities of the country 
seemed to demand the legislation by which paper money was made a legal tender, Mr. Ed- 
win A. Stevens, who was then the sole survivor of the family, insisted that the Camden 
& Amboy Railroad Co., which he controlled, should continue to pay the obligations which 
it had contracted before the war, principal and interest, in gold, when he might have 
availed himself, as many others did, of the privilege of paying in depreciated paper money. 
But it never formed any part of the code of morals or of honor of the Stevens family 
of that day to take advantage either of accident or of technicalities in the discharge of 
their obligations. Rough experiences they often encountered, but the star of personal 
honor was never dimmed." 



RECOGNITION OF THE ENGINEERING ACHIEVEMENTS OF 
JOHN, ROBERT L., AND EDWIN A. STEVENS 

On the same occasion' Commodore George W. Melville, E.D., U.S.N., in 
responding to the toast, " Our Ironclad Navy," said in part: 

" The story of the life of three generations of the Stevens family is not only the 
story of the development of railway construction and of steam navigation in this country, 
but it is the history of the early days of naval engineering, and of the first practical design 
of applying armor to the hulls of war vessels. It is also the story of the recognition of the 
importance of the mechanical and naval engineering professions. With the name of this 
family also will be associated the progressive advancement of the study of the mechanic 
arts and sciences. 

" Closely associated with early railway operations, as well as with the beginning 
of steam navigation in this country, was John Stevens, the first of a family which has 
been prominent in engineering circles for a century. A man in advance of his time, he 
had the comprehensive intelligence to grasp the future possibilities of the steam motor. 
As one studies his character and life he is impressed with the fact that John Stevens had a 
clearer knowledge than any of his contemporaries of the future revolution that would be 
effected in commercial, maritime, and naval afifairs by the progressive development of the 
steam-engine. 

" It has been a crime of the engineering profession that it has been too indifferent 
in securing due credit and honor for its professional achievements. The technical expert 
and scientist has been too backward in claiming the substantial rewards of his labor, and 
this lack of business efficiency has always stood in the way of his official, financial, and 
social advancement. 

" The legal and medical fraternities have each established a code of ethics which 
secures to its members and to the profession the reward of individual labor. But the en- 
gineer has too long been content to build the foundation and even the structure of great 
inventions, and then permit others to claim the rewards which should accompany his work. 

" John Stevens was one of those engineers whose labor has never received due offi- 
cial recognition, and a duty devolves upon some one connected with this institution or State 



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to show forth the value of Stevens's services to the development of railway, marine, and 
naval engineering. He did possess business efficiency, however, and the competence which 
he secured was a tribute to his success in commercial matters. 

" In the quiet of his home and the quiet of his sleep John Stevens passed away, 
and then Robert L. Stevens undertook the work of developing his father's idea of con- 
structing an armored steam battery. The contest between armor and the projectile waged 
fiercely in 1842, when the Congress passed an act authorizing the Secretary of the Navy 
to enter into a contract with Mr. Robert L. Stevens, ' for the construction of a war steam- 
er to be built principally of iron upon the plan of the said Stevens.' About this time also 
appeared upon the scene the great Swedish engineer John Ericsson, who, failing to gain 
recognition from the British Admiralty, left that country in disgust and came to the Unit- 
ed States. Ericsson undoubtedly crossed the Atlantic at the instance of Capt. Richard S. 
Stockton, U.S.N., and he had, for some years at least, the moral if not the official support 
of men high in favor at the Department. 

" The wrought-iron gun of English manufacture which Ericsson brought over was 
undoubtedly able to pierce the plates of the projected Stevens Battery; but Robert L. 
Stevens was not ignorant of the possibility of hardening iron and steel surfaces, and if the 
officials of the Navy Department had not become dismayed at the improved ballistic qual- 
ities of the gun, Stevens would have shown that a corresponding advance was also possi- 
ble in the means of defence, by making improvements in the arrangement and character of 
the armor plates. Officials too hurriedly decided then, as have experts several times since, 
that the projectile would always be in advance of the armor. As a result of this behef, 
official interference with the plans of Stevens became so persistent that his work was in- 
terrupted to such an extent that the project languished until 1854, when work upon a mod- 
ified battery was begun in earnest. 

" In 1856 Robert L. Stevens rested from his labors. Like his gifted father he was 
in advance of his age. Before the arrival of Ericsson he had shown that armor was in ad- 
vance of the gun. As he recognized the fact that there had been a development of the 
weapon in England, he surely would have met this advance by designing an improved qual- 
ity of armor if conservative officials would have given him the opportunity. 

" The bright fancies which Stevens pictured were far different from his experi- 
ences in the attempt to do a great work for his country. While semi-official encourage- 
ment was given to Ericsson, distrust and opposition were encountered by the various 
members of the Stevens family in their effort to induce the Navy Department to deal justly 
with them in the construction of their armored vessel. In 1861 Edwin A. and John C. 
Stevens offered to complete the projected battery at their own expense if the government 
would reimburse them for the ship after its usefulness and efficiency had been successfully 
shown. The country at that time was sorely in need of armored vessels, and the officials 
of the Navy Department were giving patient hearing to designers who came along with any 
new type of armored ships. It mattered not that the Stevens family had been successful 
in various railway and shipping enterprises, and that they had been identified closely with 
every success pertaining to the introduction of steam for navigation purposes. The naval 
vessel proposed by them contained too m.any machines, and it bore too many evidences of 
the forge and the foundry, rather than of the sail-loft, to suit the traditions of the sea. 

" In a marked degree the whole Stevens family possessed grit, for at their own ex- 
pense they fitted out the steamer ' Naugatuck ' with their arrangement of protective armor 
and lent it to the government. By reason of the bursting of her Parrott gun the armor of 
the 'Naugatuck' was not subjected to a desired test; and the value of the design of Robert 
L. Stevens could not be impressed upon the navy officials of that period. 



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" The experience of all countries during the past century conclusively shows that 
there are people who will condemn systems of naval construction because auxiliaries are 
defective which have no relation to the general plans. In this generation we have be- 
come wise enough not to reject the system because mishaps have occurred to some details 
during the course of construction. It would have been fortunate for the country if the in- 
vention of Stevens had been judged upon its merits, and not from the standpoint of 
tradition and prejudice. The engines and boilers of the Stevens Battery were the equal in 
design of anything then afloat, and it is fair to presume that an engineer of the varied ex- 
perience of Robert L. Stevens had provided for armor the superior of which had not been 
manufactured. The vessel came too near being an engineer's ship to suit the sailors of that 
period, and therefore reasons were looked for why such an armored vessel should be con- 
demned, rather than why she should be taken into the navy. 

" From 1854, when work on the armored vessel of Stevens was begun in ear- 
nest, the designers had a constant battle with the officials of the Navy Department. If it 
be true that the blood of the martyrs is the seed of the church, then the injustice heaped upon 
the Stevens family eventually resulted to the benefit of the naval service, and possibly to 
the safety of the nation. 

" Without detracting in any manner from the genius or glory of Ericsson, one 
cannot but believe that had the government completed the ship designed by Stevens, the 
fate of the ' Merrimac ' would have been sealed before she sank the ' Cumberland ' and set 
on fire the ' Congress.' It must not be forgotten that the contract for the ' Monitor ' was 
not signed until September, 1861, while work on the Stevens Battery had commenced seven 
years earlier. That Ericsson worked independently of Stevens cannot be controverted, 
neither can it be doubted that the energy and persistency of Stevens so educated the minds 
of the officials to the value of armor that they were thus able to comprehend some of the ad- 
vantages of the ' Monitor ' and other types of protected vessels. 

" The conversion of the ' Merrimac ' into an ironclad battery was undoubtedly an 
outcome of Robert L. Stevens's suggestion. It is peculiarly significant that the term ' bat- 
tery ' was used by the Confederates in connection with the changes that were made in this 
first-class frigate. In the specifications submitted by Ericsson for the construction of an 
ironclad steamship, he speaks of a ' floating battery.' The Naval Board appointed to ex- 
amine carefully all plans submitted to them in 1861 for the best type of iron- or steel-clad 
war vessel also uses the term ' steam battery.' In his controversy with the government offi- 
cials Stevens undoubtedly hammered the word ' battery ' into the vocabulary of these men 
in describing an armor-clad floating fortress. 

" The Navy owes much to the Steveiis family, and as an officer of that service I 
am pleased to pay an humble tribute to the importance of the work accomplished by its 
members. 

" That a memorial should be erected to the work of John, Robert L., and Edwin A. 
Stevens is more than fitting. The day will yet come when the Congress of the United 
States will give some official recognition of the work rendered by these men. The engineer- 
ing profession should also give expression to the value of their services, for the successes of 
this family are closely identified with the progressive advancement and development of me- 
chanical engineering along its lines. 

" In founding and sustaining a school for the development of the mechanic arts and 
sciences, the various members of the Stevens family have honored their ancestors and es- 
tablished the best memorial that could have been devised. It was appropriate also that 
the institution should be established at that place where the work of the Stevens family 
had been carried on." 



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Mr. J. Elfreth Watkins, E.D., Curator of the Department of Transporta- 
tion of the National Museum at Washington, D. C, in responding to the toast, 
" The Railroads and Steamboats of the United States," said in part : 

" In measuring the progress of the human race we are accustomed to associate the 
name of some one person with each of the great epoch-making inventions. Akhough this 
is neither the time nor the place to consider the claims of rival inventors to distinction, I 
cannot even briefly discuss the theme upon which I have been invited to speak without call- 
ing to your attention some facts which have come to my notice in the course of the efforts 
made to preserve the history of the steamboat and railway in the Smithsonian Institution 
at Washington. 

" Over a century ago, in 1792, John Stevens, of New Jersey, took out a patent in 
the United States to propel boats by steam. He experimented continuously until 1804, 
when he invented and constructed the first steamboat, to navigate the waters of any coun- 
try, driven by a screw. A model of this twin-propeller boat, belonging to the United States 
National Museum, is before us. The original machinery is also at Washington. 

" This boat was successfully operated three years before Fulton obtained fame and 
fortune by putting his English engine, built by Watt, in an American hull afterward called 
the ' Clermont.' . . . 

" But the Stevenses did not confine themselves to the problems of steam navigation. 
The late John C. Stevens once told me that he heard his grandfather say that he firmly 
believed in the success of the locomotive as early as 1795, when he worked upon a plan 
of a steam locomotive which he hoped to patent during Washington'ls administration. His 
great difficulty was in designing a track strong enougb to support the heavy low-pressure 
steam machine which he then had in mind. 

" During the early years of the century John Stevens was indefatigable in his ex- 
ertions in behalf of the railway, as shown by private letters, signed articles in the news- 
papers, and several printed pamphlets published at his own expense. In the early chapters 
of the history of the Pennsylvania Railroad Co. I have fully recorded his efforts which 
resulted in obtaining the first railroad charter granted in America. I refer to the road from 
New Brunswick to Trenton, which he desired to lay upon almost, the exact line between 
those two cities now occupied by the New Jersey Division of the Pennsylvania Railroad Co. 

" In 1823, with Stephen Girard and Horace Binney as his associates, John Stevens 
organized the movement for constructing a railroad from Philadelphia to Harrisburg and 
Pittsburg, which resulted in the incorporation of the first Pennsylvania Railroad Co., twen- 
ty-three years before the present corporation was chartered. Two years later he com- 
pleted at his own expense the first steam locomotive that ran upon a track on the Western 
continent. This locomotive, which had a multitubular boiler, still in existence, was designed 
and constructed by John Stevens upon his estate at Hoboken, where it afterward ran upon 
a track laid within a few hundred yards of the present Stevens Institute building. This 
was four years before Horatio Allen ran the ' Stourbridge Lion ' at Honesdale, nearly five 
years before Stephenson achieved his success in England with the ' Rocket.' 

" The Camden & Amboy Railroad Co., the greatest railway of its time, was a monu- 
ment to the skill and energy of John Stevens and his sons. The rails for this great iron 
highway, over which all of the traffic between New York and Philadelphia was conducted 
for many years, were designed by and rolled under the direction of Robert L. Stevens, and 
the American rail with a base- — the type now in universal service on this side of the 
water — was solely his invention. After a controversy of many years this fact has lately 
been proved by documentary evidence." 



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BRIEF BIOGRAPHICAL RECORD OF THE STEVENS FAMILY 

Colonel John Stevens, to whom Mr. Hewitt referred in the address at 
the Twenty-fifth Anniversary banquet as the founder of the Stevens family, was 
of the second generation born in this country, and of the first to achieve distinc- 
tion for scientific invention and mechanical development. His grandfather, who 
was an officer in the Queen's Court (or Court of Chancery) came to America 
early in the eighteenth century. 

His father was the Hon. John Stevens, who became prominent in affairs of 
state and nation. He was Vice-President of the Cotmcil of the first legislature of 



Castle Point Homestead in 1802 

New Jersey in 1776, and also in 1781 ; President of the Council of East Jersey 
Properties in 1 783 ; President of the New Jersey State Convention which met Dec. 
II, 1787, to consider the adoption of the Constitution of the United States, which 
was ratified on the i8th of the same month, New Jersey being the third State to 
adopt the Constitution ; Delegate to present New Jersey's ratification to Congress ; 
Commissioner to mark northern boundary between New York and New Jersey; 
Commissioner to treat with Indians, etc. He married Miss Elizabeth Alex- 
ander, a daughter of Hon. James Alexander, Surveyor-General of New Jersey, 
and a sister of William Alexander, the American general of the Revolutionary 
War who was known as " Lord Sterling." 

Col. John Stevens was born in New York city in 1749. His education was 
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(now Columbia University), from which he was graduated in 1768 with a class 
which was later distinguished for its eminent men, including Gouverneur Morris, 
Julian Verplanck, Rev. Benjamin Moore, and others of note. He studied law, and 
in 1772 received an attorney's license, under the royal government, for both New 
York and New Jersey. In 1776 he was captain in Col. Beaver's battalion. Dur- 
ing the active period of the Revolutionary War, from 1777 to 1783, he held the 
office of Treasurer of New Jersey. In 1782 he married Miss Rachel Cox, daugh- 
ter of John Cox, of Bloomsbury, a village near Trenton, N. J. John Cox was As- 




CoL. John Stevens 

sistant Quartermaster-General of the American army under Gen. Greene. Early 
in 1783 Col. John Stevens and his bride moved to New York city, where they 
occupied the old home of John Stevens, which was located at 7 Broadway, oppo- 
site Bowling Green, and continued to reside there until the year 1814. The follow- 
ing description appears in the old records of the property : 

" The lot extended in front, on Broadway, about 49 feet ; in the rear, at high-water 
mark, the breadth was 55 feet, and the length of the north Hne was 180 feet, and the south 
Hne, 187 feet. Adjoining was a lot 66 feet 8 inches broad, and extending 200 feet into Hud- 
son's River." 

During the month of March, 1784, Col. John Stevens purchased the confis- 
cated lands of the Tory, William Bayard, comprising the island of Hoboken, and 



BIOGRAPHICAL RECORD OF THE STEVENS FAMILY 105 

he also purchased an adjoining tract in Weehawken. (It is a singular coincidence 
that William Bayard was in the ancestral line — not direct but related — of Martha 
Bayard Stevens, the wife of Commodore Edwin A. Stevens, the Founder of Stev- 
ens Institute of Technology.) Immediately after the purchase of the Hoboken 
property Col. Stevens began the construction of a homestead on the site of the 
present Castle, and continued to reside in it during the summer seasons from 1786 
until 1814, when he moved from 7 Broadway, New York, and resided at Hoboken 
continuously. The succeeding generations of the Stevens family have occupied 
the premises ever since. 

The children born to John and Rachel Stevens were : 

John Cox Stevens Sept. 24, 1785 Elizabeth Juliana Stevens . April 18, 1797 

Robert Livingston Stevens . Oct. 18, 1787 Mary Stevens Aug. 7, 1799 

James Alexander Stevens . . Jan. 29, 1790 Harriet Stevens Dec. 29, 1801 

Richard Stevens Feb. 16, 1792 Esther Cox Stevens .... Aug. 6, 1804 

Francis Bowes Stevens . . . June 5, 1793 Catharine Sophia Van Cortlandt 

Edwin Augustus Stevens . . July 28, 1795 Stevens May 27, 1806 

It was after purchasing the Hoboken property that Col. John Stevens, then 
thirty-seven years of age, began to develop his remarkable ability as an inventor 
and engineer. And in the work which he carried on during the remaining fifty- 
two years which were granted, him he was most ably assisted by his sons Robert 
L. and Edwin A. Stevens. 






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CLASSIFIED RECORD OF THE ENGINEERING WORK OF JOHN, 
ROBERT L., AND EDWIN A. STEVENS ' 

INTRODUCTION AND DEVELOPMENT OF THE STEAM-ENGINE 
FOR BOAT-PROPULSION 

The following extracts are from a lecture on " The Progress of the City 
of "New York During the Last Fifty Years," delivered by President Charles King, 
of Columbia College, before the Mechanics' Society, at Mechanics' Hall, Broad- 
way, New York, December 29, 1851:^ 

"For at that time (1807) steam-engines, as applied to the various processes of man- 
ufacturing or other industry on land, were little known generally, and the whole United 
States furnished, it is believed, but one machine-shop or foundry where a steam-engine 
could be made, and that was opposite to this city, at Hoboken, in the works of Col. Stevens, 
of whom more anon. . . . 

" The palm thus gained by Fulton was closely contested by John Stevens, of Ho- 
boken, who, long in concert with R. R. Livingston,' had made experiments in steam as a 
means of propulsion, but now, aided by the genius and practical mechanical skill of his son, 
R. L. Stevens, was operating separately. Almost simultaneously, but yet behind by that fatal 
quarter of an hour which determines the fate of so many enterprises and of so many human 
beings, both men and women, Mr. Stevens produced, independently of Mr. Fulton's plans 
and experiments, his steamboat 'Phcenix;' but, precluded by the monopoly which Fulton's 
success had obtained for him of the waters of New York, Mr. Stevens first employed her as 
a passage boat between this city and New Brunswick, and finally conceived the bold pur- 
pose of sending her round to Philadelphia by sea ; and he executed it successfully. His son, 
Robert L. Stevens, went around with the boat in the inonth of June, 1808.'' A fierce storm 
overtook them. A schooner in company was driven out to sea and was absent many days, 
but the ' Phoenix ' made a safe harbor at Barnegat, whence, when the storm abated, she pro- 
ceeded safely to Philadelphia, and plied many years between that city and Trenton. 

"Mr. Stevens thus earned indisputably the honor of first venturing — and succeed- 
ing — to encounter the might of the ocean with a steam-propelled vessel. When the ' Phoe- 
nix ' went to Philadelphia, the Atlantic, and no other sea, had ever known the domination 
of victorious steam. Even now, when our magnificent steamers, exceeding in dimensions 

1 The records here given consist largely of extracts from original documents. They have been compiled 
and arranged in a certain order of grouping, the first referring particularly to the marine-engineering work of the 
Stevenses, the second to railroad engineering, the third and fourth to important details in marine and railroad 
engineering, the fifth to naval engineering, and the sixth to miscellaneous inventions. 

^ This lecture was printed in 1852 by D. Applcton & Co., in a pamphlet of 80 pages octavo. 

^ " It was stated in the address, when delivered, that the experiments were made in concert with R. Ful- 
ton, as well as with Chancellor Livingston; but I have since ascertained that Col. Stevens's acquaintance with Mr. 
Fulton began only after that gentleman's return from Europe in 1803 or 1804." The foregoing is from a state- 
ment of Eugene B. Cook, whose father, Gen. William Cook, was long associated with Messrs. Stevens as engineer- 
in-chief of the Camden and Amboy Railroad. 

* The statement, in the pamphlet recording Mr. King's lecture, that the " Phcenix " went from New 
York to Philadelphia in 1808, is evidently a misprint and in error by just one year. This correction is made by 
the Editor on the statement made to him by Mr. Francis B. Stevens, E.D., a grandson of Col. John Stevens, who 
is now living at Castle Point, Hoboken, N. J. Whether the "Phcenix" sailed for Philadelphia in 1808 or 1809 
makes little or no difference, for the claim that Mr. Stevens was the first to take a steam-propelled vessel on the 
high seas has never been disputed. 



DEVELOPMENT OF THE STEAMBOAT 107 

line-of-battle ships, go and come with the regularity of mail-coaches on a beaten turnpike 
road, this first daring conception of trusting to the ocean a frail craft, with nothing but 
steam for her means of safety and progress, may recall the lines of the Roman lyrist : 

" 'Illi robur et jes triplex 

Circa pectus erat, qui fragilem truci 
Commisit pelago ratem, 
Primus.' 

"'Cased was his breast in triple brass and oak, 
Who first old Ocean's storm-toSsed surface broke 
With his frail bark.' 

" The limit, the utmost limit of speed, which Fulton hoped or thought it possible to 
attain, was seven miles an hour,^ and that he in later boats accompHshed; but it was again 
reserved for the name of Stevens, in the person of Robert L. Stevens, after long and num- 
erous experiments cautiously conducted and tested, as to the form of vessel best calculated 
to overcome the resistance of the dense medium through which it was to make its way, to 
send forth on the Hudson — the monopoly law of the State of New York having meanwhile 
been overruled by the Constitution of the United States — a boat as superior in size and 
equipments, as in speed, to all before it, and to travel at the rate of 13^^ miles per hour. . . . 
But when the ' New Philadelphia,' R. L. Stevens's boat, in 1814, started forth at the rate of 
133/2 miles per hour, even the senses were distrusted; philosophy, which had calculated only 
the resistance of the medium to the forms then usual, was at fault, and what had actually 
been done was pronounced impossible. But the steady, far-reaching mind of the younger 
Stevens knew the secret of his success, — that it was due to the form he had given to his 
vessel. He saw, too, after some trips, that even that form was far from the perfection 
he had designed, and accordingly he went to Brown & Bell, then — and even yet I be- 
lieve — eminent ship-builders, and begged them to put on the ' New Philadelphia ' a long, 
sharp, false bow, of which he gave them the drawings. After considering the proposition 
they declined, declaring themselves unwilling to encounter the ridicule of what struck them 
as so unseemly a work, and Mr. Bell added that it would be called ' Bell's nose ' and would 
be the general laughing-stock. Repulsed, but not disconcerted, young Stevens, sure of his 
own conclusions, built a bow at his own shop, put it on, and obtained in consequence an 
additional speed of several miles an hour. 

" With the ' New Philadelphia ' commenced the first day line to Albany. This was 
the commencement of the new models, which, alike in clipper steamers and in clipper ships, 
have given to both classes of our build and navigation — for there is a great deal, too, in 
the latter — our superiority over the world. 

" And here let me expatiate a httle upon the service to the mechanic arts, and con- 
sequently to the welfare of humanity, of the family of Stevens, resident during the half- 
century among us. We have seen that by the lucky quarter of an hour Fulton carried 
away from Stevens the prize of the first successful steamboat. But years before, namely, 
1804, Col. Stevens, whose fertile and ingenious mind was specially turned to mechanical in- 
ventions, had constructed and put into operation a steamboat of which the motive power 
was a propeller which at this day, I believe, is admitted, in form and proportion, to be the 
best. This boat was a small one. In it Col. Stevens put an engine with tubular boilers, 
the first ever made, now universal in locomotives. The machinery, made under his own di- 
rection and in his own shop at Hoboken, set in motion two propellers of five feet diam- 
eter each, and each furnished with four blades having the proper twist — to obtain which 

^ In his patent Ftilton named six miles an hour as the limit he expected to attain, but in letters and con- 
versation he spoke of nine as possible. 



io8 THE STEVENS INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY 

he had the greatest difficulty with his workmen — and set at an angle of about thirty-five 
degrees. This vessel — used only for testing the possibility of steam navigation — so com- 
pletely demonstrated the fact, that Col. Stevens applied it on a larger scale in 1806 to a 
pirogue 50 feet long, 12 feet wide, and 7 feet deep — which attained very considerable 
speed. Encouraged thereby, he commenced the ' Phoenix ' with side-wheels, to whose suc- 
cess allusion has already been made. It is proof of the remarkable accuracy and mechani- 
cal skill of the Hoboken workshop that the engine of the first small propeller, carefully 
preserved, was set up again, not more than seven or eight years ago, in a new vessel, and, with- 
out altering a screw, worked most successfully. The old hull and the blades of the pro- 
peller are yet in existence in Hoboken. 

" Not the least useful purpose to which steam was applied about these times was to 
the ferry-boats which dart at all hours across the rivers separating us at once from, and 
binding us to, the shores opposite our island. ... I address many, doubtless, who remem- 
ber the comfortless row-boats, or the more comfortless pirogues, which alone, until after 
the year 1810, afforded the means of transporting man or beast to Long Island or to Jersey 
City. The first step in advance was the introduction of horse-boats — twin-boats with the 
wheel in the center — set in motion by a sort of horizontal treadmill wheel on which horses 
were made to step. For horses, steam was substituted; first by Fulton at the Fulton Ferry. 
Then came the single boats with side-wheels, and propelled by steam, of which the first 
was the ' Hoboken,' by R. L. Stevens, in 1822.^ She is still at work, much enlarged and 
sound as ever, and much faster than at first. . . . The spring piles now used to deaden the 
force of the blow as the boat approaches the ferry, and to direct her course aright, are due 
to Robert L. Stevens, who introduced them in 1822." 

The following extract from a letter written by Col. John Stevens, April 10, 
181 1, shows that he had a steam ferry-boat in operation on the Hudson River at 
an earlier date : 

" In the boiler put last season on board the ' Juliana ' ferry-boat I have improved 
upon the one in the ' Phcenix'." 

The following footnote occurs in the article on " Railroads and Canals," 
including the correspondence of John Stevens during 1811-1812, which was pre- 
sented in the " Stevens Indicator," for July, 1895 : 

" The steam ferry-boat ' Juliana ' here referred to was built by Col. Stevens in 
181 1. She was an undecked open boat, 62 feet in length and only 12 feet in breadth, draw- 
ing from 2^4 to 3 feet of water. The engine in her was of the model patented by Col. 
Stevens, having a cylinder of 14 inches diameter and 2^^ feet stroke; with copper boilers, 
cylindrical, with flues. The steam was used expansively, cut off in the main valves, as is 
now done in the most approved engines. The ' Juliana ' attained a speed of seven miles 
an hour. Mr. Fulton, having an interest in the Jersey City ferry, objected to the right of 
Col. Stevens to run the ' Juliana " as a ferry-boat between Hoboken and New York city, 
as infringing his monopoly from the State of New York, and the ' Juliana ' was driven off. 

" She afterward plied on the Connecticut River between Middletown and Hartford, 
being the first boat to navigate the Sound, although undecked, as Col. Stevens's boat 'Phoe- 
nix' was the first, in 1808, to navigate the ocean between Sandy Hook and the Delaware." 

1 This statement is evidently an error, as is indicated by several extracts from other sources given on this 
and the following pages, in which it is shown that the year should read 1811, and the boat the "Juliana." — Editor. 



DEVELOPMENT OF THE STEAMBOAT 109 

As a further evidence of the very narrow margin by which Fulton secured 
the popular credit and honor of having operated the first commercial steamboat, the 
following reference to Col. John Stevens is quoted from "Appleton's Encyclopedia 
of American Biography," V. (^y^, 674: 

" He began experiments in the application of steam in 1788, and now continued 
them, having as his associates Nicholas I. Roosevelt and the elder Brunei, who afterward 
built the Thames tunnel. During the close of the century he was engaged with his brother- 
in-law, Robert R. Livingston, and Roosevelt, in building a steamboat to navigate the Hud- 
son River, the legislature of the State of New York having previously offered a monopoly 
of exclusive privilege to the owners of a boat that, complying with given conditions, should 
attain a speed of three miles an hour; but their boat failed to achieve the required speed, 
and their joint proceedings were interrupted by the appointment of Livingston as Min- 
ister to France in 1801. In Paris, Livingston met Robert Fulton, and afterward was asso- 
ciated with him in establishing steam navigation. Stevens persevered, and in 1804 built a 
vessel, propelled by screws, that navigated the Hudson. The boiler was tubular, and the 
screw was identically the short four-threaded screw that is now used. . . . This was the 
first application of steam to the screw propeller. The engine and boiler of this steamboat 
are preserved in the Stevens Institute at Hoboken, N. J.^ Mr. Stevens always upheld the 
efficiency of the screw and its great advantages for ocean navigation. Shortly after his 
death his sons placed the engine and boiler referred to in a boat which was tried before 
a committee of the American Institute of New York and attained a speed of about nine 
miles an hour. 

" It is remarkable that after 1804 no serious attempt was made for the practical 
introduction of the screw until 1837, when it was brought into use simultaneously in Eng- 
land and the United States. Still more remarkable is the fact that its introduction into use 
in England was by the Archimedian screw of a single thread, and in America by a multi- 
threaded screw on the outer surface of a cylinder ; that the first was completely modified 
in the course of five or six years into the short four-threaded screw that was used by Stevens 
in 1804. In 1807, assisted by his son Robert, he built the paddle-wheel steamboat ' Phoenix ' 
that plied for six years on the Delaware. Professor James Renwick,^ who from his own ob- 
servation has left the best description extant of Fulton's boat, the ' Clermont,' as she ran 
in the autumn of 1807, says that 'the Stevenses were but a few days later in moving a boat 
with the required velocity ' and that, ' being shut out of the waters of New York by the 
monopoly of Livingston and Fulton, Stevens conceived the bold design of conveying his 
boat to the Delaware by sea, and this boat, which was so near reaping the honor of first suc- 
cess, was the first to navigate the ocean by the power of steam.' Fulton had the advan- 
tage of a steam engine that was made by James Watt, while his predecessors were provided 
only with inferior apparatus, the work of common blacksmiths and millwrights." 

The following is an extract from an article on " The First Steam Screw- 
Propeller Boats to Navigate the Waters of Any Country," by Dr. Francis B. 
Stevens, in the " Stevens Indicator" for April, 1893. Dr. Stevens is a grandson 
of Col. John Stevens, and is still living at Castle Point, Hoboken, N. J. : 

1 They were removed to the National Museum at Washington, D. C, in 1893. — Editor. 

- Professor of Natural and Experimental Philosophy in Columbia College, New York; author of several 
treatises on the Steam Engine, including an article " On the Steamboats of the United States of America." — 
Editor. 



no THE STEVENS INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY 

"At the date of the introduction into use of the screw propeller, the pressure of 
steam carried on the boilers of condensing engines of the vessels that now navigate the 
bays and rivers of the Atlantic seaboard averaged about 30 pounds per square inch ; while 
on the innumerable steamboats on the Mississippi and its tributaries the steam averaged 
140 pounds per square inch. At the same date the pressure on English vessels was the same 
that Watt had established — namely, 2^/^ to 3 pounds. The ' Great Western,' in 1838, car- 
ried that pressure, and the iron screw propeller ' Great Britain,' in 1846, carried only 5 
pounds per square inch. 

" Col. Stevens attempted to introduce steam navigation by the screw propeller ; 
laboring at the project for six years, and relinquishing it only one year before the successful 
application of the paddle wheel by Fulton. The five distinct means he proposed were : 

" I. The short four-bladed screw propeller. 

" 2. The use of steam of high pressure. 

" 3. The multitubular boiler. 

" 4. The quick-moving engine connected directly to the propeller shaft. 

" 5. Twin screws. 

" None of these means were applied to steamships for forty years thereafter, and 
yet all are elements in the success of ocean navigation at the present day. 

" Steam-engine building, as a trade, did not exist in the United States until the 
year 1797, although it had long been established in England. Farey, in his ' Treatise on 
the Steam-Engine' (London, 1827), states that in the sixty-two years intervening between 
Newcomen's nrst engine in 1712, and Watt's first engine in 1774, the steam-engine had 
been extensively introduced throughout England, in the form of pumping-engines for drain- 
ing mines, and for raising water to turn overshot wheels, by which cotton mills and a great 
variety of machinery were driven; and that as early as 1750 steam-engine building had 
become a recognized trade in England. 

" The exportation from England, of all machinery, was prohibited by law, except 
upon an order from the King in Council, until 1820, when the law was repealed. Three 
known instances when this order was obtained were, for the pumping-engine at Chantilly,' 
for supplying the city of Paris with water; for the pumping-engine of the Manhattan Com- 
pany, for supplying the city of New York in 1799; and for Fulton's rotative engine in 1806. 
All three engines were made by Watt. 

" Toward the close of the last century, Hornblower, a distinguished English engi- 
neer, came to this country and erected a pumping-engine at the mouth of the shaft of a 
copper mine near Belleville, on the left side of the Passaic River, N. J., about 8 miles- 
froni New York; and established a small machine-shop near by. This was then the only 
machine-shop in the country. The second was erected in 1801, by McQueen, in Duane- 
Street, New York, near the Manhattan pumping-engine. 

" The efficiency of the tools for engine-building in this country in the year 1800 can 
be judged by the following extracts from a letter written by P. T. Cope to the city authorities 
at Philadelphia in relation to the boring of a cylinder 38^^ inches diameter by 6 feet 
stroke, for the pumping-engine that was erected in the square at Broad and Market streets, 
now the site of the Municipal Building. This letter, dated July 3, 1800, from Belleville, was. 
published in the 'Scientific American Supplement' No. 45, November, 1876, p. 706. He 
says that the boring of the cylinder was commenced on the 9th of the previous April; that 
the boring had been in progress from that date to the date of the letter, July 3, two men 
working day and night, relieving each other, ' one almost living in the cylinder ' ; and that 
he expected ' that about six weeks would be required to finish it.' 

"An inspection of the rude workmanship of the twin-screw engine, as well as that; 



EARLY DAYS OF THE STEAM RAILROAD iii 

of the boiler, will explain the reason for the abandonment, by Col. Stevens, of his plan of 
screw propulsion. There were no tools or competent workmen in America at that date to 
properly construct the steam-engines and the boilers that he planned between 1800 and 
1806. Success was impossible. 

" When he finally realized this, unwearied by his attempts to introduce steam navi- 
gation, dating from the year 1791, he reverted to the paddle wheel, with its slow-moving 
engine, and with the boilers then in use, carrying steam at the pressure of two or three 
pounds above the atmosphere. He was engaged in building the ' Phoenix ' when Fulton 
arrived from Europe with the engine made for him by Watt in 1806, which, complete in 
all its details, and in these respects far in advance of any engine that could then have been 
built in this country, achieved success. 

" Fulton's engine was the first rotative steam-engine that was allowed to be ex- 
ported from England. 

" The paddle steamboat ' Phoenix ' was completed a few weeks after Fulton's vessel ; 
and, as she was debarred from navigating the waters of the Fludson by the monopoly given 
to Fuhon by the legislature of the State of New York, she was sent by sea to Philadelphia. 
The ' Phoenix ' was the first steamboat that navigated the ocean. 

" Col. Stevens always m.aintained that with proper machinery the screw would be 
found superior to the paddle for sea-going vessels. In 181 6 he presented a plan to our gov- 
ernment for a man-of-war propelled by a screw. This may still remain in the archives of 
the government at Washington." 



EARLY DAYS OF THE LOCOMOTIVE AND THE STEAM RAILROAD 

The following extracts are taken from a lecture on " The Progress of the 
City of New York During the Last Fifty Years," delivered by President Charles 
King, of Columbia College, December 29, 1,851 :' 

" Next in succession among the operative causes of our growth, as connected with 
steam, was its application to land carriage, and soon the railroad and the locomotive were 
constructed to soothe and to satisfy, as far as that can be done, our national go-ahead 
spirit. And here again New York was the point whence proceeded the first railroad enter- 
prise, which was to connect this city with Philadelphia, by the Camden and Amboy Rail- 
road in 1831 ; and here again Col. John Stevens claims our admiration and gratitude. He 
had clearly worked out in his own mind, long before any locomotive was constructed in Eu- 
rope, the theory of such an application of steam, and the actual form in which it could be 
advantageously made, as well as the cost of constructing and working a railway for the 
use of locomotives. Long before any experience existed to justify his anticipation, he 
said and published that there was no limit to the speed of a locomotive on a rail but the. 
strength of the materials ; that it might easily be made to run as fast as a pigeon could fly ; 
and it is one of the striking incidents connected with the opening or the early use of the 
Camden and Amboy Railroad, that a flock of pigeons which had settled on the track, being 
disturbed in its approach by the rapid engine, took wing in the direction of the track; and 
that one of them, attempting to cross in front of the car, was struck down by it; thus most 
literally verifying the prediction that the locomotive would equal in velocity the pigeon's, 
flight. 

1 This lecture was printed in 1852 by D. Appleton & Co. in a pamphlet of 80 pages, octavo. 



112 THE STEVENS INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY 

" Since this address was delivered, I have succeeded in finding among the bound 
pamphlets of the Society Library a copy of the very remarkable pamphlet upon ' Railroads 
and Steam Carriages ' ^ published by Col. John Stevens in May, 1812, and I cannot refuse 
myself the pleasure of briefly stating its purport here, — briefly, I say, as I am gratified in 
being able to add that the sons of that great benefactor of his country (themselves not with- 
out large claims to its gratitude and remembrance) are about to reprint that pamphlet, 
with additions and notes, which will make it a very curious as well as a very instructive 
publication. 

" Colonel Stevens, who, as has already been seen, was the inventor of the tubular 
boiler as far back as 1804, and who had been an experimenter in steam as a motive power, 
both on the water and on the land, as far back as 1790, became so thoroughly convinced of 
the superiority of railways to canals for internal communication and the transportation of 
passengers and produce, that when, in 1810, the project of connecting Lake Erie with the 
Hudson was so seriously discussed as to lead to the appointment, by the legislature, of 
commissioners to examine the routes and report on the feasibility of the work. Col. Stevens, 
after seeing their report, which contemplated a continuous inclined plane from the lake to 
the river, to be fed in its whole length by the waters of the lake, earnestly pressed upon the 
commissioners, as preferable alike in economy, speed, and rapidity of construction, a system 
of railways adapted to steam carriages. This was the origin of the pamphlet to which we are 
referring, which is in fact little else than a copy of his memorial to the canal commissioners, 
with their objections and his rejoinders, preceded by a preface in which Col. Stevens sets 
forth his motives for the publication, and the grounds and extent of his faith in these then 
untried ways and carriages. Having failed to convince the New York commissioners, he 
enforces the national advantages of his project thus: 

" ' So many and so important are the advantages which these States would derive from 
the general adoption of the proposed railways, that they ought, in my humble opinion, to 
become an object of primary attention to the national government. The insignificant sum of 
$2, 000 or $3,000 would be adequate to give the project a fair trial. On the success of this experi- 
ment a plan should be digested, a general system of internal communication and conveyance 
be adopted, and the necessary surveys be made for the extension of these ways in all directions, 
so as to embrace and unite every section of this extensive empire. It might then, indeed, be 
truly said that these States would constitute one family, intimately connected and held together 
in bonds of indissoluble union.' " 

" This remarkable paper then proceeds to estimate the great fiscal advantages to the 
federal government from the estimated tolls to be derived from these roads, which, while 
so light, in comparison with the actual cost of transportation of merchandise and passen- 
gers, as to secure a preference, would in the aggregate constitute a large revenue. 

" The practicability of commencing the work, and carrying it on upon many distant 
points at once, with a view to their ultimate connection, is also clearly pointed out ; and 
then comes this distinct — and when it is considered that there existed not in the world, at 
that time, railways and steam carriages such as had been shadowed forth — and truly won- 
derful prophecy of the speed which could be attained by locomotives on railways : 

" 'But there remains another important point of view in which this improvement de- 
mands the attention of the general government; the celerity of communication it would afford 
with the distant sections of our wide extended empire is a consideration of the utmost moment. 

1 This pamphlet, which was originally printed by T. & J. Swords, New York, in 1812, was reprinted in 
1852, and, having since become very rare, was again reprinted in full in " Stevens Indicator " in 1895 (XII, Nos. 
3 and 4). — Editor. 



EARLY DAYS OF THE STEAM RAILROAD 



113 



To the rapidity of the motion of a steam carriage on these railway's, no definite limit can be set. 
The flying proas, as they are called by voyagers, belonging to the natives of the islands in the 
Pacific Ocean, are said at times to sail more than twenty miles an hour; but as the resistance of 
the water to the progress of the vessel increases as the squares of her velocity, it is obvious 
that the power required to propel her must also be increased in the same ratio. Not so with a 
steam carriage; as it moves in a fluid eight liundred times more rare than water, the resistance 
will be proportionally diminished. Indeed the principal resistance arises from friction, which 
does not even increase in a direct ratio with the velocity of the carriage. If, then, a proa can be 
driven by the wind (the propulsive power of which is constantly diminishing as the velocity of 
the proa increases), through so dense a fluid as water, at the rate of twenty miles an hour, I can 
see nothing to hinder a steam carriage from moving on these ways with a velocity of one hun- 
dred miles an hour.' 

" To this bold conjecture Mr. Stevens adds this note, more sagacious, even, than the 
conjecture: 

" 'The astonishing velocity is considered here as merely possible. It is probable that 
it may not, in practice, be convenient to exceed twenty or thirty miles an hour. Actual experi- 




FiRST Train on the Cxaidex 



Ajir.oY Railroad 



ence, however, can alone determine this matter; and I should not be surprised at seeing steam 
carriages propelled at the rate of forty or fifty miles an hour.' " 

" Should it not seem that, to the teeming and enthusiastic mind of this most in- 
genious engineer, the actualities of railvirays and locomotives, which we witness now at a 
distance of forty years from this prophecy, had been, as it were, revealed? Every capability, 
indeed, and recommendation of railways seem to have been present to Col. Stevens's mind, — 
as, for instance, their military importance : 



" 'In a military point of view the advantages resulting from the establishment of these 
railways and steam carriages would be incalculable. It would at once render our frontiers on 
every side invulnerable. Armies could be conveyed in twentj-four hours a greater distance 
than it would now take them weeks or even months to march. 



114 THE STEVENS INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY 

" 'Thus, then, this improvement would afiFord us prompt and effectual means, not only 
of guarding against the attack of foreign enemies, but of expeditiously quelling internal com- 
motions, and thus securing and preserving for ever our internal tranquillity.' 

" In the memorial to the New York commissioners, precise calculations were made 
of the cost of fuel for locomotives; of constructing the railways (which were at first to be 
of wood, raised on posts some three feet from the ground, so as to be clear of snow, and 
afterward, when proved to be successful, to be plated with iron) ; and of working the 
whole road. These calculations are marvellously verified by the experience of this day." 

In connection with the above remarks by President King, the following ex- 
tract from an address delivered by Mr. J. Elfreth Watkins before the Philosophical 
Society of Washington, May 7, 1892, on "John Stevens and His Sons, Early 
American Engineers," ' is of interest : 

"The South Carolina Railroad (commenced in 1829), which, when completed in 
1832, was the longest railway in the world, was constructed upon his plans as laid down 
twenty years before." ' 

The following extracts are taken from an address delivered by Mr. I. El- 
freth Watkins, C.E., E.D. (Curator of the Section of Transportation and Engineer- 
ing of the United States National Museum), at Bordentown, N. J., November 12, 
1 89 1,' upon the completion of the monument erected by the Pennsylvania Railroad 
to mark the first piece of track laid between New York and Philadelphia; and to 
commemorate the Sixtieth Anniversary of the first movement by steam upon a 
railway in the State of New Jersey, Noveml^er 12, 1831 :* 

" Tlic Union Line 

"At that time (1812), in connection with his son Robert, he (John Stevens) had 
made steamboat navigation on the Delaware a commercial success. Shortly afterward he 
became connected with the firm that was soon merged into the famous Union Line, which 
controlled the transportation of merchandise and passengers between Philadelphia and New 
York for many years. During that time the through route, loi miles long, between Phil- 
adelphia and New York, was divided into three links : 

(i) The steamboat route from Philadelphia to Trenton 36 miles 

(2) Overland stage and wagon route, Trenton to New Brunswick, over the turnpike . . 25 " 

(3) Steamboat route. New Brunswick to New York 40 " 

loi miles 

"The Trenton and New Brunswick Turnpike Company (chartered in 1804) had 
made a marked improvement in their road, but these twenty-five miles were a tedious jour- 
ney to passengers, and expensive to the company in hauling freight by wagon. 

1 This address was printed in pamphlet form by W. 1"". Roberts, Washington, D. C. 

^ See also " Appleton's Encyclopedia of American Biography," Y . 673. — Editor. 

= The address was published in pamphlet form by Gedney & Roberts, Washington, D. C. 

* See the illustration, on p. 86, of the bronze tablet erected at Bordentown on this occasion. 



EARLY DAYS OF THE STEAM RAILROAD 115 

" The First Railroad Charter 

" Colonel Stevens was anxious to put his recommendations of 1812 into practice. In 
1817 he obtained a charter from the State of New Jersey ' to build a railroad from the 
river Delaware, near Trenton, to the river Raritan, near New Brunswick.' This was un- 
doubtedly the earliest railroad charter granted in America; but no tangible result followed, 
because the scheme was regarded as wild and visionary. The introduction of the steam- 
boat, coupled with the success of the Duke of Bridgewater in the introduction of canals 
abroad, had made them m.ore popular with capitalists than the untried railroad, and no 
money could be raised for that undertaking. Col. Stevens regretted that his financial con- 
dition was not such as to warrant him in building the road at his own expense. 

" First Charter of the Pennsylvania Railroad 
"His interest in the subject of internal communication did not flag on account of 
this failure, for in 1823, through the exertion of Mr. Stevens, acts were passed by the legis- 




Private Track ix Hoboken, Near 



IE I'UESh 



Terminus 



lature of Pennsylvania ^ for the incorporation of a company to construct a railway from 
Harrisburg to Pittsburg, and another company to construct a railway from Philadelphia to 
Columbia, in Lancaster County, among the incorporators being John Stevens, Stephen 
Girard, and Horace Binney. 



"John Stevens's Experimental Locomotive 

"Three years later (1826), Col. Stevens, then seventy-six years old, constructed 
at his own expense a locomotive ' with a multitubular boiler which he operated for several 
years on a circular track on his estate at Hoboken. A model of this locomotive, together 

^ Laws 1823, sec. 6, p. 252. 

- " This was the first locomotive in .-\merica, driven by steam upon a track, of which there is reliable 
record." — ilr. J. Elfreth Watkins, in an address before the Philosophical Society of Washington, May 7, 1892. 



ii6 THE STEVENS INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY 

with the original multitubular boiler which formed a part of it, is also preserved in our 
National Museum. 

"Camden and Aniboy Railroad Organi::ation: First Officers, etc. 

" The meeting of the stockholders at which the first organization of the Camden 
and Amboy Railroad was effected was held ... at Camden, N. J., April 12, 1830.^ The fol- 
lowing persons were chosen the sole officers and directors of the company : Robert L. Stevens, 
of Hoboken, President; Edwin A. Stevens, of Hoboken, Treasurer; Jeremiah H. Sloan, of 
Camden, Secretary. . . . Robert L. Stevens was also appointed Chief Engineer. . . . 

"The Stevens brothers, Robert L. and Edwin A. (with their father John Stevens) 
became the active managers of the road. The former took charge of laying the track and 
procuring equipment, while the other looked after the political, financial^ and practical man- 
agement of affairs. Considerable judgment had to be used in both of these branches. No 
laws had been established in regard to the steps to be taken in the purchase of right of 
way, and many of the New Jersey legislators were very chary when they were asked to 
grant franchises and rights. In Mr. Robert L. Stevens's department the field was indeed 
wide. The few short railways built at that time were isolated and separated by consider- 
able distance, which in those days was a difficulty not easily surmounted. When we think 
of the fact that Robert L. Stevens was compelled to begin to lay track and provide 
engines and cars for a railroad, with no experience to guide him, and with no experienced 
railroad men to consult, we can form some idea of the responsibility which rested upon his 
shoulders and the perplexing problems he was called upon to solve. But the son of the 
great inventor ' knew no such word as fail,' and he bent himself to the task with a suc- 
cess that was remarkable." 

^ The circumstances leading up to this meeting were as follows : 

The Union Line, mentioned above, had been uniformly successful over competing lines for the passen- 
ger and freight business between New York and Philadelphia. Passengers leaving New York at noon one day 
arrived in Philadelphia early the next morning. Freight charges were from 75 cents to $1.25 per 100 pounds. 
This was the condition of affairs in 1827, when the need for better transportation facilities between the Raritan 
and the Delaware rivers became apparent. Numerous petitions were presented to the New Jersey legislature in 
1828-29 and 1829-30, praying for the incorporation of a railroad company. Opposed to these petitions were the 
advocates for a canal across the State of New Jersey, and with these were associated the unsuccessful and un- 
friendly competitors of the old Union Line. 

Early in 1829 the " Stourbridge Lion," the first locomotive that ever turned a driving-wheel on a rail- 
road built for traffic on the western continent, was ordered from England by the Delaware & Hudson Canal Co., 
arriving here in August, when it made its first trip under Horatio Allen. Later in that year great impetus was 
given to the construction of railways by Stephenson's success in England with the " Rocket " on the Manches- 
ter and Liverpool road. 

Railroad construction was at that time (1828-29) under way in several sections of the country. In spite 
of this there were many who thought that a steam railroad in New Jersey could not be made to pay. In 
the New Jersey legislature the deadlock which had resulted between the friends of the railroad and canal was 
compromised m January, 1830, when Robert L. and John C. Stevens, representing the railroad interests, met by 
chance Commodore Robert F. Stockton, representing the canal interests, in the lobby of the Park Theatre, New 
York. As a result of this meeting one charter was granted to the Camden & Amboy Railroad & Transportation 
Co., and another charter to the Delaware & Raritan Canal Co. on the same day, the 4th of February, 1830. 

Robert L. Stevens was elected President and Engineer of the new railroad company on the 28th 
of April following, and sailed for Europe in October. After attending to the work of obtaining the T-rail which 
he had designed, and which will be described later, he went to the works of George and Robert Stephenson at 
Newcastle-on-Tyne, where the famous locomotive " Rocket " had been built. At that time Mr. Stevens contracted 
for the locomotive afterward known as the "John Bull." He then returned home and built a railway track 1,067'/^ 
feet long, with his rails laid on stone blocks, near Bordentown, where on the 12th of November he exhibited to 
the legislature of New Jersey the capabilities of the railway and the locomotive. A letter dated October 15, 1901, 
from Mr. Francis B. Stevens, nephew of Robert L. Stevens, and to whom we are indebted for much information 
in this connection, states that he was present October 9, 1831, at the opening of the road, when it was com- 
pleted and formally opened for traffic from Bordentown to Hightstown. In the latter part of December the road 
was completed to Amboy, but locomotives were not used until August, 1833, when a sufficient number had been 
made. 



INVENTION OF THE T-RAIL AND SPIKE 117 

INVENTION OF THE T-RAIL AND SPIKE BY ROBERT L. STEVENS 

The following extracts are taken from an address, delivered by Mr. J. El- 
freth VVatkins, C.E. : 

" Early in October, 1830, and shortly after the surveys of the Camden and Amboy 
Railroad were completed, Robert L. Stevens sailed for England with instructions to order 
a locomotive and rails for that road. At that time no rolling-mill in America was able to 
take a contract for rolling T-rails. 




Robert L. Stevens 

" Robert Stevens advocated the use of an all-iron rail in preference to the wooden 
rail or stone rigger plated with strap iron, then in use on one or two short American rail- 
roads. At his suggestion, at the last meeting held before he sailed, after due discussion, 
the board of directors of the Camden and Amboy Railroad passed a special resolution au- 
thorizing him to obtain the rails he advocated. 

" During the voyage to Liverpool he whiled away the hours on shipboard by whit- 
tling thin wood into shapes of imaginary cross-sections until he finally decided which 
one was best suited to the needs of the new road. He was familiar with the Berkenshaw 
rail with which the best English roads were then being laid, but he saw that, as 
it required an expensive chair to hold it in place, it was not adapted to our country 
where metal-workers were scarce and iron was dear. He added the base to the T-rail, dis- 



THE STEVENS INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY 




Transcription of Letter Shown in Manuscript Below. 

" Liverpool, November 26, 1830. 
" Gentlemen, — 

"At what rate will you contract to deliver 
at Liverpool, say from five to six hundred tons of rail- 
way, of the best quality iron rolled to the above pattern in 
twelve or sixteen feet lengths, to lap as shown in the 
drawing, with one hole at each end, and the projections 
on the lower flange at every two feet, cash on delivery? 
How soon could you make the first delivery, and at what 
rate per month until the whole is complete? Should the 
terms suit and the work give satisfaction a more extended 
order is likely to follow, as this is but about one-sixth 
part of the quantity required. Please to address your 
answer (as soon as convenient) to the care of Francis B. 
Ogden, Consul of the United States at Liverpool. 
" I am. 

Your Obedient Servant, 

Robert L. Stevens, 
President and Engineer of the Camden and 
South Aniboy Railroad and Trans- 
portation Company. 




'CrJ^^r'/i^C^^i^^^t^' 



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Facsimile of Sketch of Cross-Section, Side-Elevation, and Ground-Plan of 
THE First T-Rail 



(Also ot Letter Addressed by Robert L. Stevens to English Ironmasters, Asking for Bids.— Preserved in the United 
States National Museum, Washington, D. C.) 



INVENTION OF THE T-RAIL AND SPIKE 



119 



pensing with the chair. He also designed the 'hook-headed' spike (which is substantially 
the railroad spike of to-day) and the 'iron tongue' (which has developed into the fish-bar), 
and the rivets (which have been replaced by the bolt and nut) to complete the joint. 

" The base of the rail which he first proposed was to be wider where it was to be 
attached to the supports than in its intervening spaces. This was afterward modified, so 
that the base was made the same width (three inches) throughout. 

" Mr. Stevens received no favorable answer to his proposals, but, being acquainted 
with Mr. Guest (afterwards Sir John Guest), a member of Parliament, proprietor of large 
ironworks in Dowlais, Wales, he prevailed upon him to have rails rolled at his works. Mr. 
Guest became interested in the matter and accompanied Mr. Stevens to Wales, where the 
latter gave his personal supervision to the construction of the rolls. After the rolls were 
completed the Messrs. Guest hesitated to have them used, through fear of damage to the mill 
machinery, upon hearing of which Mr. Stevens deposited a handsome sum guaranteeing 
the expense of repairing the mill in case it was damaged. The receipt of this deposit 
was preserved for many years among the archives of the Camden and Amboy Company. 
As a matter of fact the rolling-apparatus did break down several times. A facsimile of a 
bill for altering the rolls for the Stevens rail is shown on the following page. At first, as Mr. 
Stevens, in a letter to his father, which I have seen, described it, ' the rails came from the 
rolls twisted and as crooked as snakes,' and he was greatly discouraged. At last, however, 
the mill-men acquired the art of straightening the rail while it cooled. 

" The first shipment,'' consisting of 550 bars 18 feet long, 36 pounds to the yard, ar- 
rived in Philadelphia on the ship ' Charlemagne,' May 16, 1831. . . . 

" The rail was first designed to weigh ^6 pounds per yard, but it was almost imme- 
diately increased in weight to between 40 and 42 pounds, and rolled in lengths of 16 feet. 
It was then 3^2 inches high, 2% inches wide on the head, and 3^^ inches wide at the base, 
the price paid in England being £8 per ton. The import duty was $1.85 per ton. 

" This iron proved to be of such a superior quality that after it was worn out in the 
track the company's mechanics preferred it to new iron in making repairs. Some of this 
rail is still in use in side tracks. It is pronounced equal in durability to much of the steel 
rail of to-day. 

^A list of the vessels chartered to transport the rails, with dates, tonnage, etc., is given below: 



May 16, 1831 . . 
May 19, 1831 . . 
April 7, 1832 . . 
April 23, 1832. . 
May 4, 1832 . . 
June 2-18, 1832 . 
May 8, 1832 . . 
June 2, 1832 . . 
June 5, 1832 . . 
June 6, 1832 . . 
June 18, 1832 . . 
July 19, 1832 . . 
August 2, 1832 . 
August 6, 1832 . 
August 13, 1832. 
August 14, 1832. 
August 20, 1832. 
August 23, 1832. 
August 24, 1832. 
August 27, 1832. 
September3, 1832 
September 4. 1832, 
October 12, 1832 



"Charlemagne" 
"Salem" .... 
" Caledonia " . . 
"Armidilla" . . 
' George Clinton ' 
" Henry Kneeland 
"Cumberland".. 
;" Gardiner" . . 

;" Globe" 

"Jubilee" ... 
"Hellen". ... 
" Nimrod " . . . 
"Emery". ... 

"Ajax" 

"Concordia " . . 
"William Byrny' 
" Mary Howland ' 
"Pulaski" ... 
" Robert Morris" 

"Ann" 

" Montgomery" 
"Marengo" . . 
i" Vestal" .... 



963 



Tonnage 




Tons 


Cwt. 


Lbs. 


504 


° 


14 


774 


2 


14 


73 


3 


07 


1,000 


3 


21 


'986 




14 


377 


3 


21 


2,790 




00 


1,136 





00 


9+3 


I 


14 


130 





21 


2,004 


3 


21 


1.745 


3 


00 


454 


2 


00 


700 





21 


1. 174 


3 


14 


2,13s 




07 


1,755 


S 


07 


924 




00 


3,732 




14 


961 


2 


07 


2,959 





14 


1,004 




07 


460 


= 


07 



Rate 
Duty 



I20 THE STEVENS INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY 

" Mr. Stevens ordered the first joint fixtures, also from an English mill, at the same 
time. . . . 

" The first ' spikes six inches long, with hooked heads ' were also ordered at the 
same time. These were undoubtedly the first ' railroad spikes ' (as they are known to 
the trade) ever manufactured. 

" Mr. Stevens neglected to obtain a patent for these inventions, although urged to 






'^^^^~x-^r^t.^^t^ . . . . . O 

Facsimile of Bill for Altering Rolls for the First T-Rail 

do so by Mr. Ogden, American Consul at Liverpool, and the credit of being the inventor of 
the American rail was for a time claimed by others, but the evidence brought forward in 
late years fully estabhshes the fact that he was the originator of the American system of rail- 
way construction."^ 

^ In this connection we produce herewith a facsimile extract from a letter dated July i6, 1831, from 
Mr. Francis B. Ogden, then American Consul at Liverpool, in which he refers to Vignolles, to whom has been, 

J^lu. it«t_ d J*-*^ Ic-.-jk^ cUin.-t-^ J<u^^ at. uku^ pt^ *e^* -^^w ^-^m. 
t^L OrKJUi-t^-zUC^ X^tv*^ ^ ^ u,>x.C«_ C^xac^r- ^:^~^v*<- ^ ^i ^ il^yu.j,<^ 

given the credit for the invention of the T-rail. That it belongs to Robert L. Stevens is now firmly established' 
by this document and by other evidence. The extract reads as follows : 

" The price of iron remains abotit the same as when you were here, and I do not think there would, 
be much difference in any future contract. It would make considerable, however, if you would consent to have 
the rails of miequal length, say from 10 to 16 feet, and it appears to me to be of but little importance that the 



INVENTION OF THE ELONGATED SHELL FOR CANNON 121 

" Sixty years have elapsed since this rail was adopted by the Camden and Amboy 
Company, and with the exception of slight alterations in the proportions incident to in- 
creased weight, no radical change has been made in the ' Stevens rail,' which is now in use 
on every railroad in America. Many improvements have been made in the joint fixture, but 
the 'tongue' or fish-plate, improved into the angle slice-bar, is in general use, and nothing 
has yet been found to take the place of the ' hook-headed ' railroad spike which Robert 
Stevens then designed. 

" The track upon which we stand was the first in the world that was laid with the 
rail and spike now in general use. 

" Mr. Robert L. Stevens was present in England, December 4, 1830, when the loco- 
motive ' Planet,' built by Stephenson & Co , was given its first public trial. He at once ordered 
a locomotive of similar construction from the same builders. This locomotive was com- 
pleted and shipped to America, where it became known as the ' John Bull.' The parts were 
assembled by Isaac Dripps, the first master-mechanic of the Camden and Amboy Railroad, 
and the first public trial was given November 12, 1831, at Bordentown, N. J., before the 
State legislature and other high officials. This had the effect of quieting the opposition to 
the steam locomotive, which had been developed by the farmers and other horse owners and 
dealers, who wished to have the cars on the railroad drawn by horse power. This question 
had already become a political issue in the State." ^ 

INVENTION OF THE ELONGATED SHELL FOR CANNON 

The following extracts are taken from a lecture on " The Progress of the 
City of New York During the Last Fifty Years," delivered by President Charles 
King, of Columbia College, December 29, 1851 : 

" 1813-1814.- — The war with England being then in progress, he [Robert L. Stevens] 
invented, after numerous and most hazardous experiments, the elongated shell, to be fired 
from ordinary cannon. Having perfected this invention, he sold the secret to the United 
States after making experiments, to prove their destructiveness, so decisive as to leave no 
doubt of the efficacy of such projectiles. One of these experiments was made at Governor's 
Island in the presence of officers of the army, when a target of white oak, four feet thick 
and bolted through and through with numerous iron fastenings, was completely destroyed by 
a shell weighing 200 pounds, and containing 13 pounds of best Battle powder. This solid 
mass of wood and iron was torn asunder; the opening made being large enough, as the cer- 
tificate of the officer commanding. Col. House, stated, for a man and horse to enter. 

" These shells are free from the danger accompanying ordinary shells, for they are 
hermetically sealed and suffer no deterioration from time. Some of these, after being kept 
twenty-five years, by way of proving their safety till needed and as needed, were tested 
by exploding gunpov^^der under them, and then they were taken to high places and let fall 
on rocks below, and all without causing them to explode. After this they were plunged 
into water, and then, being put into the cannon, were fired, and, upon striking the object, 
exploded with devastating effect." 

joints should always be opposite to each other. Vignolles has laid down his road in that way, the rails remark- 
ably well executed on your pattern, like the piece I sent out to you, but much lighter, and is very much pleased 
with it, and says it is decidedly the best rail in use." — Editor. 

1 Further particulars in reference to this subject may be found in the Report of the United States Na- 
tional iluseum, 1888-89, PP- 651-708, in the article on "The Development of the American Rail and Track," as 
illustrated by the collection in the National Museum, by Mr. J. Elfre^h Watkins, Curator of the Section of" 
Transportation and Engineering. — Editor. 



122 THE STEVENS INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY 

THE STEVENS BATTERY, THE FIRST IRONCLAD VESSEL TO BE ACTUALLY 
PLACED UNDER CONSTRUCTION 

The following- extracts are taken from an address entitled " John Stevens 
and His Sons, Early American Engineers," by Mr. J. Elfreth Watkins, delivered 
before the Philosophical Society of Washington, May 7, 1892: ' 

" In the year 1814, and toward the close of our last war with Great Britain, Col. 
Stevens had projected the circular iron fort moved by steam, . . . for the harbor of New 
York, and by his direction his son Edwin, then nineteen years of age, experimented with 
a six-pounder bronze cannon fired against iron plating. This cannon is still retained at 
Castle Point. Iron armor for the protection of the person has been in use from prehistoric 
ages, but the demonstration that it could be applied to ships of war was made for the first 
time by Edwin A. Stevens in 1841, twenty-seven years after he had made the experiment 
for his father, and at the time when we were on the brink of war with Great Britain on 
account of the aggressions on our Canadian frontier. As thick armor plate could not be 
made at that date, he devised the method of armor plating in lamina, or plates laid over each 
other and riveted. He then made a series of experiments to determine the thickness of 
plating required to resist the different sizes of balls then in use. From these experiments, 
which were made at Bordentown, N. J., in, the summer of 1841, he made the deduction that 
a target of iron 43/^ inches thick would resist a 64-pound shot, at that time the heaviest ball 
used in our navy. With the assistance of his brother John C. (his brother Robert being then 
in Europe) he laid the results of his experiments before President Tyler. As the whole 
country was then aroused, the President immediately appointed a joint board composed of 
the ablest ordnance officers of the army, and of the leading officers of the navy, to superin- 
tend the experiments of the Messrs. Stevens on iron as a protection for war vessels ; and 
in accordance with the request of this joint board John C. and Edwin A. Stevens wrote 
them a letter giving their views upon the subject of steamers for coast and harbor defence, 
stating that their ideas were principally derived from their brother Robert L. Stevens, then 
abroad. This letter,'' written August 13, 1841 and before the application of the screw to 
vessels of war, can be said to embody the leading principles of naval warfare that have since 
been reduced to practice. 

" The army officers were Colonels Totten, Thayer, and Talcott, and the naval ones. 
Commodores Stewart, Perry, and Smith. The targets, 4^ inches thick, made by Edwin A. 
Stevens, were tested at Sandy Hook by the joint board of officers in the months of Sep- 
tember, October, and November, 1841. They made an elaborate report, unanimously agree- 
ing that the targets fully withstood the numerous shots from the heaviest guns then in 
service. It was upon the presentation of this report by the Naval Committees of the Senate 
and the House of Representatives that the act of Congress was passed authorizing the Sec- 
retary of the Navy to contract with Robert L. Stevens, who had then just returned from 
Europe, for an ironclad steamer to be ' shot and shell proof.' That act is as follows : 

"'Chapter XII (Statutes of the United States at Large) April 14, 1842, An Act 
Authorizing the Construction of a Steamer for Harbor-Defence. 

" 'Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of 
America, that the Secretary of the Navy is hereby authorized to enter into contract with Robert 
L. Stevens for the construction of a war steamer, shot and shell proof, to be built principally of 

1 This address was printed in pamphlet form by W. F. Roberts, Washington, D. C. 
' See post, p. 124. 



THE STEVENS BATTERY 



123 



iron, upon the plans of said Stevens, provided tiie whole cost, including hull, armament, en- 
gines, boilers, and equipment, in all respects complete for service, shall not exceed the average 
cost of the steamers "Missouri" and "Mississippi," and be it further enacted that two hundred 
and fifty thousand dollars (1250,000) be and the same is hereby appropriated, out of any money 
in the Treasury not otherwise appropriated, toward carrying this law into effect. 



" ' (Approved by the President of the United States) 



'John Tyler. 



" It may be mentioned that this bill was reported from the Committee of the Whole 
of the House of Representatives, April 7, 1842, at the suggestion of Ex-President John 




The Stevens Battery in Her Dry Dock 



Ouincy Adams, then a member of the House, who characterized it as ' one of pressing 
emergency.' It passed the Senate unanimously, and in the House there were but thirteen 
dissenting votes. 

" Upon the passage of the act, Robert, with the assistance of his brother Edwin, 
commenced immediately to plan and construct the vessel. He built a dry dock for it at 
Hoboken and proceeded rapidly with the work. 

"At the date of the passage of this Act of Congress there had been but little change 
in the power of guns from those used by Nelson at the battle of Trafalgar in 1805, or on 
our frigates in the War of 1812. But when Commodore R. F. Stockton, after the failure 
of his first gun, February 28, 1844, succeeded in having constructed in England a wrought- 



124 THE STEVENS INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY 

iron gun throwing a round shot that pierced a target 4^ inches thick, Robert Stevens al- 
tered his plans, increasing the thickness of the armor and the size of the vessel that he had 
contracted to build ' shot and shell proof,' and then began, in the great navies of the world, 
the long-drawn-out battle between gun and armor, — a contest that by the intervention of 
other methods may never be decided. When more powerful guns were introduced, either 
at home or abroad, other alterations were made, thus causing interminable interruptions of 
the work, many long delays, and an increase of expenditures far beyond that provided by 
the Act of Congress. Dying in 1856, five years before our Civil War, he left the vessel 
unfinished in the basin at Hoboken, but with all the plating on, and with the twin-screw 
engines and the boilers, having 876 square feet of grate surface, in their positions. 

" This vessel was 410 feet long, 45 feet beam inside the armor-shelf, with the deck 
two feet above the water, and was similar in these respects to the ' Monitor ' class of ves- 
sels built six years afterward by Ericsson, but differing in having a square and immovable 
turret, instead of a circular and movable one. 

" During the Crimean War, in 1855, the French government built three small ves- 
sels protected by thin armor, this being the first use of ironclads in naval warfare. 

" It is significant that on the ' Warrior,' the first English ironclad, and on the 
French frigate 'La Gloire,' both built in i860, eighteen years after the demonstration of 
Edwin A. Stevens at Sandy Hook, and on the ' Monitor,' built in 1862, the thickness of the 
armor adopted was that of his targets ; namely, 4}^ inches. 

"At the commencement of our Civil War, and twenty years after his demonstra- 
tion at Sandy Hook that a vessel could be protected by iron armor, Edwin Stevens pre- 
sented to the government a plan for completing the 'Stevens Battery' (which had been 
bequeathed to him by his brother Robert), together with a small vessel called the ' Nauga- 
tuck,' to demonstrate the practicability of his plans. This small vessel was accepted hy 
the government and was one of the fleet that attacked the ' Merrimac' She was a twin- 
screw vessel, capable of being immersed three feet below her load-line, so as to be nearly- 
invisible, and of being raised again in eight minutes by pumping out the immersing weight 
of the water, and of turning end for end on her centre in one minute and a quarter.^ As 
the plans for the modification of the ' Stevens Battery ' embodied ideas then novel, but whick 
have since been found practicable and necessary, his offer was rejected by the government. 
The ' Stevens Battery ' remained in the same state in which it was left at the death of 
Robert L., in 1856, until after the death of Edwin in 1868. The latter bequeathed it to the 
State of New Jersey, together with $1,000,000 for its completion. This money was spent in 
1869 and 1870. The vessel was never launched, and in 1881 was taken to pieces and sold for 
old material." ' 

Subjoined are reprints of some of the original docitments which passed 
between Robert L. and Edwin A. Stevens and the United States government in 
reference to the building of the " Stevens Battery." 

The following brief extract is from the letter addressed to the United States, 
government, August 13, 1841, by John and Edwin A. Stevens, in response to 
the request of the joint board of commissioners mentioned above.' 

" It appears to us that steam vessels of war should possess the following qualifica- 
tions : That the motive power (so far as steam is concerned) should be out of reach of an 
enemy's shot. That the vessel herself should be proof against damage from either shot 

1 See post, p. 127. 2 See "Engineering," London, March 26, 1897, P- 417. ^ See ante, p. 122. 



THE STEVENS BATTERY 125 

or shells; that she should have the capability, when required, of great speed, combined with 
the power of choosing, under all circumstances, her position with certainty and facility. 

" These qualities we believe may be combined in one vessel : 

" First, by having the engine and boiler placed below the water-line, and by using as 
a propeller the Stevens Circular Scull, whose action is entirely below the surface of the 
water. 

" Secondly, by constructing the vessel, above the water-line, of such material as should 
be proof against shot or shell, and placed at such angle as should best resist or turn the 
one or the other. 

" Thirdly, by working the engines expansively at ordinary times, with boilers capable 
of resisting a high pressure, and generating, by the use of a more concentrated and inflam- 
mable fuel, a very large quantity of steam, giving greater power and speed when required. 

" In the construction of the vessel, we propose to substitute iron for wood; iron, for 
ship-building, being of less weight than wood of equal strength, and capable of opposing an 
equal resistance. 

" The thickness necessary to resist balls of the largest size would require to be de- 
termined by experiment. ... If so, it would require only 4^^ to 6 inches to resist a 9-inch 
shot. . . . 

" We would arm her with a few guns of the largest calibre. . . . We would load 
them at the breech." 

" That no two steam vessels of war, at the present day, could come together at a 
speed of say six or seven miles an hour, without sinking one or both, is, in our opinion, cer- 
tain. What, then, must be the effect of coming in contact with a vessel (save from the 
shock herself) at double that speed? Instant and immediate destruction." 

" The only question seems to be, could a vessel be constructed with the requisite 
strength and speed? If this can be done, and we are sanguine that it can, armed with 
shells, and completely proof against shot of any size, one would protect a harbor and be 
more than a match for a fleet of steamers, or ships of war of the usual construction." 

The following comments on the foregoing letter were published in an arti- 
cle by President Morton in " Engineering," London, March 26, 1897: 

" It will be noticed that the use of this vessel as a ram is manifestly present in the 
mind of the writer of the above letter even at this early period, but an accident which oc- 
curred subsequently strongly confirmed this view. 

" By some derangement of her steering-apparatus the ' Thomas Powell,' one of the 
fast North River steamboats, ran into a ' crib ' dock built of 12-inch timbers and filled with 
stone. The bow of the boat penetrated the dock for some 15 feet, shearing through the 
timbers and displacing the stone, and the steamboat then backed out, entirely uninjured. 
'If (Mr. Stevens argued), a lightly built river steamer, with wooden hull, could so cut 
into and damage a solid crib dock, what would an equally rapid steamer with iron hull and 
prow made like the blade of an immense axe, thoroughly backed up and supported by the 
entire structure behind it, accomplish, if hurled against the side of any ordinary wooden 
or iron vessel ?' 

" With this in view, the steamer, whose keel was laid in 1843, in consequence of a 
contract made by Robert L. Stevens with the Secretary of the Navy in April, 1842, was pro- 
vided with an immense axe-like solid iron prow, so braced and supported from the rest of 
the iron hull as to constitute an inseparable portion of the same. Again, to secure adequate 
protection combined with a minimum weight, Mr. Stevens proposed to provide each of the 




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large guns located above the armored deck or horizontal shield of the craft, with an indi- 
vidual housing or ' bomb-proof.' These guns were mounted on revolving carriages, their 
recoil being taken up by rubber disk-springs in the manner since practised, and were to be 
loaded, directed, and fired from below the deck ; the loading being accomplished by bringing 
their depressed muzzles opposite holes in the deck, provided for the purpose. 

" This method of loading, directing, and firing was put into successful practice, in 
1863, in the ' Naugatuck,' a small boat which Mr. E. A. Stevens fitted out himself with a 
single gun of large calibre, and placed at the service of the United States government in 
the time of anxiety immediately succeeding the combat of the ' Monitor ' and ' Merrimac ' 
in Hampton Roads on March 7, 1862. This steamer, with the location of her gun, is shown 
in the accompanying cut. 

" The ' Naugatuck ' was in commission for several months, and did good service 
in combats with batteries on the James River until the bursting of her 100-pound Parrott 
gun (without injury to her crew, who were below the armored deck) caused her retire- 
ment, and her place was soon supplied by the ' monitors ' built in great numbers at that time. 

"Experiments made on January 11, 1862, showed that a lo-inch gun could be 




The " Naugatuck " 



loaded with charges of 11 pounds of powder and a ball of 124 pounds, and discharged four 
times in 139 consecutive seconds, the quickest time for a loading and discharge being 25 
seconds.'' 



The following letters are self-explanatory : 



" HoBOKEN, N. J., December 22, 1856. 
" Hon. J. C. Dobbin, 

"Secretary of the Navy: 
" Sir,— 

" As one of the executors of my brother, Mr. Robert L. Stevens, of Hoboken, N. J., 
it becomes my duty formally to announce his decease to the government of the United 
States, with whom he was a contractor. My own indisposition, and that of members of my 
family, must be my excuse for the delay which has occurred in transmitting to you this 
communication. Entertaining, as I do, no doubt of the success of the work on which he 
was employed, and having participated in some of the experiments which led to his con- 
tract, I feel the greatest anxiety that it should be diligently prosecuted; to that end I am 
ready, cheerfully, to give my services, believing that from my intimate knowledge of the 
origin and progress of the vessel, and of the views of the contractor, I can, better than 
any other person, consum.mate that work in which he ever felt the greatest pride and the 
most entire confidence. 

" It may not be improper that I should at this time, and with a view to a full and 



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proper understanding of the relative position of my brother's estate and the government, 
briefly recapitulate the origin, progress, and present position of the vessel. 

" Satisfied, by experiments conducted upon a large scale at great expense and with 
entire success, that he had discovered a means by vi^hich he could construct a vessel proof 
against all warlike weapons then in use, and specially adapted to the harbors of the United 
States Mr. Robert L. Stevens, in 1842, proposed to the government that he would build such 
a vessel for that purpose and for the defence of the harbor of New York. 

"A contract in pursuance of an act of Congress, and with which you are familiar, 
was duly executed. 

" Finding it impossible to launch a vessel of the size and description contracted for, 
he was compelled to excavate upon his own property at Hoboken, and to erect at his own 
and at a very great expense, a dry dock of sufficient capacity to contain the vessel and to 
float her into the harbor when completed. 

" While constructing the dry dock, materials were procured and patterns made for 
the ship itself: but in December, 1843, Mr. Henshaw, then Secretary of the Navy, declined 
to make payments for the materials as purchased; and accordingly, in November and De- 
cember, 1844, a second, full, minute, and supplemental contract was entered into with the 
Department. 

" To these papers, on file in your office, I beg leave most respectfully to refer you. 

" In pursuance of these provisions the work was commenced and prosecuted for some 
time, when, in 1845, Mr. Secretary Bancroft directed all further proceedings on the con- 
tract to be discontinued until a plan of the vessel should be furnished, though the plan in 
detail was contained in the special contract of 1844. By this order the whole work was 
stopped. The health of the contractor, who had devoted himself to the fulfilment of his 
contract with the indefatigable energy which was ever one of the leading traits of his char- 
acter, was broken down, and he was ordered abroad by his physician for the preservation 
of his life. While so abroad, in 1847, he learned that the Hon. J. Y. Mason, with whom 
this special contract, already referred to, had been made, and who was familiar with its 
details, had been appointed Secretary of the Navy. He immediately returned to this 
country, communicated to him the embarrassments to which he had been subjected, and 
the causes of the delay, and applied to him for an extension of the time to complete the 
contract, which in 1848 was granted. 

" The rates and mode of payment for the materials as received were provided for 
in the special contract, and also in a letter of February — , 1849, as will appear by the papers 
on file in your department. 

" In August, 1849, Mr. Preston, then Secretary of the Navy, again declined to make 
further payments on the contract. Mr. Stevens was then in Europe, having gone there for 
the purpose of procuring, under his own immediate personal supervision, materials for 
some portion of the steamer which could not be so well obtained in this country, and had 
himself made contracts to secure this supply. Upon his return in November, 1849, he both 
personally and by letter applied to Mr. Secretary Preston, who still refused to make any 
further payment on account of the work or material, and expressed his determination to 
refer the matter to Congress, which he did in his communication to the session of 1849. 

" It was not acted upon by that body ; and the attention of his successor, Mr. Gra- 
ham, being called to the subject, he, in September, 1850, declined to interfere, upon the 
ground that the whole matter had been referred to Congress. 

"In January, 1851, Commodore Skinner advised the contractor by letter that the 
Department regarded the contract void, and intended to sell the materials that had been 
collected. 



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" To protect himself against the ruinous consequences thus threatened, Mr. Stevens 
applied by petition to Congress. It will be perceived that at this time an act of Congress had 
directed a Secretary of the Navy to make the contract, and it was made; that the contrac- 
tor, in good faith and by large expenditures of his own funds, proceeded to execute it; that 
the contract was afterward made more specific by another Secretary. Ample mortgage 
security for its execution was required and given. Officers of the government were ap- 
pointed to superintend the receipt of materials and payments made on their certificates. 
A third Secretary suspended the execution of the contract, leaving the contractor liable 
to pay about $40,000, mostly for materials, and all of which was paid from his own funds. 
His successor in office restored the contract, extended the time for its execution; the con- 
tractor was again actively and earnestly engaged in the prosecution of the work, when the 
succeeding Secretary suspended all payments and referred the subject to Congress, and, re- 
garding the whole contract at an end, was about to sell under the power of sale contained 
in the mortgage executed by the contractor to secure the faithful completion of his work. 

" The facts to which I have thus taken the liberty to call your attention will suffi- 
ciently explain the delay that has ensued. The different views taken from time to time 
by the officers of the government upon the subject, and the directions given for the sus- 
pension of the work, of necessity prevented its execution with that regularity and system 
that might otherwise have been secured. 

" This may not, however, prove ultimately disadvantageous to the United States, 
for the reasons which I am about to state, and in stating which I shall in a great degree 
explain the unanticipated increase of cost. 

" Vast changes have taken place, both in the size of vessels of war and the weight 
of their armament, since the year 1842. Paixhan guns of 64 pounds were the heaviest metal 
then used in the navy. Now, solid shot of 172 pounds are not unfrequent. The sizes of 
the vessels themselves have correspondingly increased. 

" While, therefore, the size and strength of the battery were amply sufficient to re- 
sist the character of the vessels and arms then in use, they might prove an insufficient 
defence against the larger vessels and heavier guns which were rapidly being introduced 
into the navies of all the great Powers. These changes manifestly rendered necessary cor- 
responding alterations in the size and strength of the battery, without, however, in any 
respect changing the principles of construction (were by letter communicated to the Depart-- 
ment by Mr. Stevens), and to this cause is to be referred the increased cost of the battery. 
It could have been completed for the price named in the contract, and delivered to the 
government, but under the changed condition of the navies of maritime powers it would 
have been comparatively useless, and it would have been unworthy the well-earned charac- 
ter of the contractor (who never sought profit from his country's government) to have done 
so. 

"The battery required to be correspondingly enlarged and strengthened; it would 
protect against steam vessels of great size and speed, and the power of her engines required 
to be correspondingly increased. She must carry a heavier armament to meet upon a footing 
of something like equality those of other nations, and must therefore be larger to carry 
it. She must resist effectually the vastly increased weight and power of the guns newly 
introduced, and must therefore be strengthened accordingly. 

" The changes made were fully stated in a letter by the contractor to your Depart- 
ment, dated January 28, 1856, and in a communication made by him to Capt. L. Hudson 
and Wm. Kemble, Esq., appointed by the Secretary of the Navy in February, 1856, to visit 
and examine the then condition of the battery. 

" From the letter of Mr. Stevens, I beg leave to make the following extract, as 



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expressing in the clearest manner the nature and character of the changes made in the 
battery and the reasons which led to their adoption: 

" ' My reasons why the cost of the present steam battery so far exceeds the sum men- 
tioned in the contract are as follows: The contract specifies that the steamer to be constructed 
by me should not be less than 250 feet in length, 40 feet beam, 28 feet in depth amidships; shot 
and shell proof against the artillery then in use on board vessels of war, namely, from 18 to 64 
pounders; the protection to be 4)^ inches thick. She was to have four iron boilers with 50 per 
cent more exposed fire surface than either the " Mississippi " or " Missouri," and four or more 
condensing engines whose combined effect exceed by 50 per cent those of either the above- 
named vessels when worked at their usual pressure of steam, namely, 12 inches. 

" ' The battery I am now constructing is 415 feet long at her water line, 48 feet beam, 
and 32 feet 4 inches deep amidships; has 10 large boilers, and 8 driving-engines, whose com- 
bined meditated power, when required, will be 8,624 horses (33,000 pounds per horse-power 
raised i foot per minute), with nine other engines of various powers for other purposes, and a 
proposed thickness of 63/( inches of iron protection over every part of the vessel exposed to 
shot. 

" ' The above increase of dimensions were necessary for an increase of speed to keep 
up with the present improvements in vessels of war now afloat, so as to enable her to overtake 
quickly any vessel she may be in pursuit of. In addition to which the government required an 
increase of strength in the protection to resist a shot of 125 pounds, instead of 64 pounds, as 
the contract called for when made in 1843. Consequently, the weight of the hull and protec- 
tion are necessarily increased to carry the same. The present hull is nearly four times, and 
the protection nearly three times the weight of the battery contracted for. The propelling 
power is g8j4. times greater than that required in the contract; and the horse-power of the pres- 
ent battery is 8,624, while the contract called for but 900. The cost is also much increased in 
consequence of having two propellers and two lines of shafting worked independent of one 
another, with the necessary fixtures to enable the battery to turn quickly on the center, making 
her in effect, when required, a revolving battery, instead of one propeller and line of shafting, 
as called for in the contract. 

"'Recapitulation of Dimensions and Power 
Contract of 1843 Battery of 1856 

Length, not less than 250 feet 415 feet length 

Beam, not less than 40 feet 48 feet beam 

Depth amidships, 28 feet 32 feet 4 inches depth 

Protection against shot, 4^ inches 6^ inches protection 

4 iron boilers 10 iron boilers 

4 or more condensing engines 8 condensing engines 

900 horse-power 8,624 horse-power 

Propeller and i line of shafting 2 propellers and 2 lines of shafting 

2 accessory engines 9 accessory engines 

" 'I take this occasion to state that after having made my original contract with Mr. 
Secretary Upshur in 1843 I prepared the necessary buildings, machinery, and tools, and exca- 
vated the dock in which the steamer is being built at my own expense, for the cost of which, 
up to the present time, I have received no compensation from government. I have been busily 
engaged in collecting materials for the construction of the battery at my establishment at Ho- 
boken, but in consequence of the refusal of subsequent Secretaries of the Navy, at different 
times, to go on with the work, the first floor-timbers of the battery were not laid until July, 1854. 
The work from that time until September, 1855, was pressed on vigorously; and during the 
period of fifteen months nearly $387,000 of the appropriation of 1500,000 was expended on the 
battery, engines, etc., and I have expended since that time, from my own private resources, as 
shown by the bills exhibited to you for engines, materials, and labor, the amount of 1113,579^^^ 
up to the 23d of February. 



THE STEVENS BATTERY 131 

" ' You will perceive from the above statement that the battery has been in process of 
building-, up to the present time, but a little over eighteen months; and I feel assured that I 
can complete her for service in twelve months from this time, provided the necessary funds are 
supplied to carry on the work.' 

" The Report of the gentlemen to whom this letter was addressed, dated March 7, 
1856, is on file in your department, and to it I respectfully call your attention. By it you 
will observe the contractor had, at that time, expended $113,579.11 more than he had re- 
ceived. 

"As his executor, and to prosecute the work since his death, and to fulfil, perhaps 
beyond his obligation, his duty to the government, I have further paid toward the work 
the sum of $62,000 and upward, and for which I hold the vouchers, to be presented as you 
may desire. 

■' It may be proper to add that these sums include no charge whatever for the rent, 
taxes, or expenses of the real estate of the contractor, which has for some thirteen years 
been thus used by the government. 

" The question now presented for your consideration is, what shall be done with 
the vessel? 

" Unfinished, and comparatively valueless as she now is, I cannot for a moment sup- 
pose that the government can mean to abandon the great work. 

" My confidence in its success, and my deep regard for my brother's fame, make me 
most anxious that it should be completed. 

" I have abundant means, and do not desire, either for myself or my brother's es- 
tate, the slightest profit from the work; indeed, if my means were immediately available 
to the extent required, I might not hesitate to use them. 

" Believing the invention which gives value to the vessel to have been exclusively 
my brother's and American; finding that in the recent conflicts in Europe the officers of those 
governments have not hesitated to adopt, from this very vessel and the experiments which 
led to her construction, the same principle as the only sure and best method of resisting 
the heavy batteries of the present day (although not there put into such form as to test 
its greatest powers) ; satisfied that by this means the harbors of our country can be securely 
protected against all assault, that one vessel thus constructed, combining size, speed, 
strength, and resistless armament (ball and shell proof), can successfully combat a fleet 
of our enemies, — I earnestly hope it will not be abandoned. 

" I am ready to give freely, in any manner you may see fit to call upon me, my aid, 
time, experience, and skill, to the work; and I sincerely, sir, trust that you will exercise 
your power and well-earned influence to secure the completion of a work which will go 
far to preserve to our country the blessings of peace, by protecting her commercial ports 
from successful assaults in war. 

" E. A. Stevens, 

"Act. Exr." 

"Washington, July 10, 1862. 
"Hon. John P. Hale, Chairman of Senate Committee on Naval Affairs, 

and 
"Hon. Charles B. Sedgwick, Chairman of House Committee on Naval Affairs: 

" Gentlemen, — 

" \Vith a view to make my propositions more clear and definite, and to pre- 
vent any misunderstanding, I now present them to the Committees, and will carry into effect, 
on my part, any one of them that may be adopted by Congress during its present session. 



132 THE STEVENS INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY 

" First, that the Government pay me the money advanced by my brother and my- 
self for the Stevens Battery, and finish the vessel on such plans as they may think best, 
relieving me of all responsibility. 

" Second, I am willing to modify the first proposition as follows, namely, to com- 
mence auditing the accounts de novo, charging everything that properly belongs to the bat- 
tery, and crediting all received on account of the same, without reference to the contract. 

" Third, that the government release to me their claim to the vessel, and I will 
finish it at my own risk and expense, as a war vessel, within eighteen months, with the right 
in that event of the government, after it is finished — if, in their opinion, it is a success — 
to take the vessel at the amount estimated for its completion, namely, $783,294, or I will 
forfeit $100,000 as liquidated damages. 

" Fourth, that the vessel be sold for the benefit of the parties concerned, and the 
proceeds of the sale paid according to the decision of any federal court having jurisdiction, 
with the right of either party to appeal to the Supreme Court of the United States. 

" Yours respectfully, 

" E. A. Stevens." 

HoBOKEN, February 24, 1863. 
" Hon. Gideon Welles, Secretary of the Navy: 

" Sir, — 

"I see by the public press that the government is about to construct several 
large sea-going ironclad ships of war. These vesels are intended, as I understand, to be 
about the same length and size as the Stevens Battery; and one of them now under con- 
tract with Mr. Webb, of New York, it is said, will cost $4,000,000. 

" I propose to relieve the government of all risk as to the success of at least one 
of these vessels by obligating myself to complete the Stevens Battery and deliver her ready 
for service on the following terms, viz. : 

" I. That she shall be impenetrable to the most destructive missile fired from the 
most powerful gun (with its ordinary service charge) now used in our own or in any Euro- 
pean naval service, to be tried upon her at short range, — say 220 yards. 

" 2. That she shall have greater speed than any other ironclad war steamer in the 
world. 

" 3. That she shall be more manageable and more quickly turned and manoeuvred 
than any other large armed sea-going steamer. 

" 4. That she shall have an armament capable of throwing a broadside at least equal 
to that of anv ship now afloat. 

" 5. That she shall be delivered to the government complete and ready for service 
within nine months from the time the order is given, for the sum of $1,500,000, but po 
payments will be required until she shall be ready for delivery; provided, however, that 
the performance by me of these conditions is not to rest upon theoretical opinions, but (if 
desired) shall be brought to practical tests, — the test of her sea-going qualities to be a voy- 
age to Charleston Bay and back to New York harbor. 

" The conditions attached to this offer, if fulfilled, would make the ship the most pow- 
erful and efficient war steamer in the world, at a cost to the government far less than 
that of the ' Warrior ' or ' La Gloire,' or than that of any other ship of the same size and 
quality. She could also be completed in less than half the time it would require to build 

1 " Fearing that the expression in the above proposition, ' the money advanced by my brother and my- 
self,' may be misunderstood, I will state that it was intended to apply only to the accounts not yet audited by 
the Department, and not to those already audited, settled, and paid by the Department, amounting to $500,000." 



THE STEVENS BATTERY 133 

a new ship. If she should prove a failure, the whole loss falls upon me, and not upon 
the government. 

" Or I will transfer the vessel to the government as she now stands — having her 
hull, boilers, engines, and machinery nearly all complete — for her cost to me (say $250,- 
000) ; provided she is then finished by them on my general plan, I estimate she would cost 
the government in all $1,000,000. 

" This arrangement would give the government the benefit of the $500,000 hereto- 
fore expended by them on the ship, and which was relinquished by the action of the last 
Congress. As will be seen from the last offer, I do not propose to make any profit out of 
the government, but desire the completion of the vessel for the national good. And, to pro- 
tect the reputation of my brother and myself from the discredit of any failure, that she 
may be completed on our plans, that we may not be held responsible for the success of the 
plans of others. " E. A. Stevens. 

" P. S. — If time is of great importance to the government, the vessel could be com- 
pleted in much less time, but of course at an increased cost." 

The follov^ing account of the Stevens Ironclad Steam Battery is taken from 
the Report of the Commission appointed in 1874 to effect a sale of the vessel 
after the death of Mr. E. A, Stevens. The Commission consisted of His Excel- 
lency Joel Parker, Governor of New Jersey; Hon. Amzi Dodd, Vice-Chancellor 
of New Jersey; and Mr. W. W. Shippen and the Rev. S. B. Dod, executors of 
the estate of Mr. Edwin A. Stevens. Prof. R. H. Thurston, A.M., C.E., was 
engaged as Consulting Engineer to the Commission. 

" By a provision in the will of the late Edwin A. Stevens, of Hoboken, N. J., his 
executors were directed to complete an iron steam-vessel, then lying unfinished in dry- 
dock in the city of Hoboken, making of said vessel an effective ironclad, and, when com- 
pleted to present the ship to the State of New Jersey. 

" It was further directed that the machinery and tools used in construction, and 
not exceeding $1,000,000 in money, should be appropriated for the purpose of carrying out 
this provision of the will. 

" It was still further provided that, should the State of New Jersey not receive 
the said vessel, the executors were to sell the ship and to retain the proceeds of such sale 
as a part of the estate of the testator. 

" A special act of Congress having been obtained, authorizing the State to ac- 
cept the gift under the provisions of the will, the legislature, by an act approved April i, 
1869, accepted the vessel on the terms above stated, and a Commission consisting of Messrs. 
Fitz John Porter, Benjamin G. Clark, and William W. Shippen, was appointed to advise 
with the executors, and to represent the State during the completion of the vessel. 

" Under authority conferred as above, and in accordance with the previously ex- 
pressed desire of the testator. Gen. George B. McClellan, U.S.A., was appointed as En- 
gineer to assist in determining upon the proper method of completing the vessel, and to 
take charge of the work. On the recommendation of Gen. McClellan, Mr. Isaac Newton 
was engaged as Assistant Engineer. 

" By the advice of the Engineers it was determined to make important modifica- 
tions with the object of complying with the directions of the testator, — to make the ves- 
sel ' an effective ironclad for purposes of war.' 

" It was concluded to introduce an inner skin, transverse water-tight bulkheads. 



134 THE STEVENS INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY 

water-tight coal-bunkers, to build new engines, and to prepare the ship for transformation 
either into an ironclad of the ' Monitor ' type, having very high speed, carrying a power- 
ful armament within a turret of extraordinary thickness, and capable of acting efficiently as 
a 'steam ram,' or into a broadside ironclad. 

" The bow of the vessel was modified accordingly, and was considerably strength- 
ened by means of water-tight transverse and longitudinal bulkheads and breasthooks. 

"A very strong inner hull, with seven transverse bulkheads placed at intervals of 
from thirty to eighty feet, was built, and a heavy wale-strake was carried above the origi- 
nal upper line of the gunwale, making the vessel two feet deeper than before. 

" This was done by workmen employed by the Engineer in Charge, none of this 
work being done by contract. All of the iron was of the best quality, furnished by the 
Abbott Iron Co., of Baltimore, Md. The workmanship, as well as all material, was of the 
best possible description. 

" The new engines and machinery were built by the Delamater Iron Works, of 
New York, from drawings furnished by the Engineer in Charge, and were subject to rigid 
inspection as delivered. 

" Material was charged by the pound, and labor was paid for by the day. 

" The reputation of the Delamater Iron Works is a sufficient guarantee of the ex- 
cellence of this portion of the work. 

" The decks of the vessel were constructed of carefully selected well-seasoned Georgia 
pine, well laid down, and so completely free from sapwood and from shakes that no change 
of form or texture is perceivable. 

" It was the intention of the executors and of their engineers to put afloat a vessel 
that should be the most formidable ironclad on the ocean. 

" The amount of money appropriated proved insufficient to complete the vessel, and, 
after the hull and the machinery had been nearly finished, the work was necessarily stopped, 
leaving the ship in the condition hereafter described. 

" A question having been raised as to the real ownership of the vessel, suits in 
chancery were commenced, and, pending these suits, the State legislature, by an act to 
which reference has already been made, directed a positive sale and the payment of the pro- 
ceeds into court. r 

" The vessel is therefore offered for sale as she now lies, with hull and machinery 
nearly completed as exhibited in the following detailed description furnished by the Con-- 
sidting Engineer to the Commission. 

■'If finished on the plan indicated by the Consulting Engineer, and already so far 
carried out, it is believed that the purchaser will acquire the fastest ironclad in the world, 
and the most formidable steam ram afloat. The armament may be made to consist of the 
most powerful guns yet successfully constructed and worked, and the battery protected by 
armor of a thickness which has been attained with no vessel yet built. 

" The speed shown to be attainable is greater than that of any armored vessel known 
to have been tried, and is higher than even unarmored ships, such as the British ' Magi- 
cienne,' the ' Rover,' or the ' Bacchante,' which represent the fastest foreign men-of-war yet 
designed. 

" Completed as a torpedo-ship, the vessel would carry armor of sufficient thickness 
to secure safety against the projectiles of an enemy, while the speed attainable would ensure, 
in a stern chase even, the capture or destruction of any vessel attacked. 

" Dispensing, in this case, with a turret, a larger quantity of coal could be carried 
and the ship would be capable of keeping the sea for a long time, and of making long 
voyages. 



THE STEVENS BATTERY 135 

" Should it be determined to complete the vessel as a merchant steamer, the twin 
screw, with the two pairs of independent engmes, the double bottom, and the almost inde- 
structible bow, would afford an immunity from danger by breakage of machinery, by collision, 
or by running on shore, which would make the steamer a favorite one with prudent trav- 
ellers. 

" The security against complete disability by injury of machinery which is given by 
the two screws and their duplicated machinery would justify the total abandonment of all 
top-hamper; and the vessel, built up two decks, would afford pleasanter and more com- 
fortable quarters than are to be found on any steamer crossing the Atlantic. If considered 
advisable to introduce masts and sails, the great stability of the vessel would enable her to 
carry all the sail that can be put upon her. 

" The exceptionally high speed of the ship would be an important advantage, and 
all the above detailed advantages conspire to make the steamer available as an excellent fast 
passenger or mail steamer for any Transatlantic line, and to make her particularly suitable 
for any line on which ships are at all exposed to danger of injury by ice, or of being cast 
away upon rocky coasts." 

The above constitutes the introduction of the report, which is foUowed by 
a technical description of the condition of the vessel at that time, and also by a 
number of classified lists showing an inventory of materials and supplies. In con- 
cluding his report as Engineer to the Commission, Prof. Thurston stated : 

" The unfinished work, as detailed in the inventory herewith submitted, may be done 
readily in three months, and the vessel will then be in condition to steam across the Atlan- 
tic if necessary. 

" Should it happen that the ship should be purchased with the intention of taking it 
to Europe, it might be found advisable to leave a portion of the work of completion to be 
done there. The difference between the cost of work of equal quality in the United States 
and abroad is not, however, sufficient to justify the acceptance of either inconvenience or 
danger to secure the benefit of it, and the difference now existing is gradually disappearing. 

" The cost of the work required, as stated, to complete hull and machinery, but not 
of armor or armament, will vary greatly with the character of material and workmanship, 
and with the nature of the plans adopted, where not already determined, by work already 
done. An approximate estimate may be taken as $100,000. To this is to be added the ex- 
pense of removing the vessel from the dock. 

" The expense of completing as an ironclad, fully armored and armed, has been esti- 
mated at about $450,000." 

At the sale mentioned above the vessel was purchased by a dealer in sec- 
ond-hand materials. 

This was the undeserved fate of a great and worthy project. The Stevens 
Battery was the production of two generations of experimenters and inventors 
who had successfully planned and established railroads and steamship lines, and 
numerous engineering devices for operating them. It was based on the plans of 
tried and experienced men of acknowledged standing, men who never doubted its 
success ; it was their last work, and who can say but that it was the harbinger of 
the armored navies of the present day? 



136 THE STEVENS INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY 

MISCELLANEOUS INVENTIONS BY JOHN, ROBERT L., AND EDWIN A. STEVENS 

The following extract is taken from the inscription beneath the medallion 
portrait of John Stevens which hangs in the Section of Transportation and En- 
gineering in the United States National Museum at Washington, D. C. : 

" It was on his [John Stevens's] petition that the patent law of April 10, 1790, — 
the foundation of the American patent law, — was framed. [See ' Journal of House of Rep- 
resentatives,' p. 30.] 

" In 1792 he took out patents for propelling vessels by steam pumps, modified from 
the original steam ptimps of Savary. He made many experiments on different modes of 
propulsion by steam, having as his associates the elder Brunei, constructor of the Thames 
Tunnel, Chancellor Robert L. Livingston, his brother-in-law, and Nicholas I. Roosevelt. 
In 1798 he constructed a steamboat that navigated the Hudson. 

"He made the first practical application of steam to the screw-propeller in 1804; 
and although the screw-propeller did not come into use until thirty-five years afterwards, his 
engine and screw, which are still preserved, show the correctness of his ideas, as well as 
the imperfection of the workmanship of that period that prevented commercial success. 
His short four-bladed screw has survived many forms afterwards tried. 

"He patented the multitubular boiler in the United States, 1803; in England, 1805; 
established the first steam ferry in the world, between New York and Hoboken, October 11, 
181 1, with the 'Juliana'." [See also Valentine's Annals of the City of New York.] 

The following extracts are taken from a lecture on " The Progress of the 
City of New York During the Last Fifty Years," delivered by President Charles 
King, of Columbia College, December 29, 185 1: 

" The extent, variety, and value of Mr. R. L. Stevens's labors and inventions in 
mechanics should have more fitting commemoration than can be given in any passing notice 
by one unskilled, as is the writer of this, in the mechanic arts. Yet he cannot suffer this 
allusion to Mr. Stevens to go forth without attempting, at least, to enumerate some of the 
many services and ingenious inventions and appliances of that gentleman, in steam, in 
gunnery, and in mechanics. From the time when, a mere boy, in 1804-5, he was zealously 
working in the machine-shop at Hoboken, up to the passing hour, he has given his time, 
his faculties, and his money to what may be justly described as experimental philosophy, 
and the results have been of great public benefit. Of some of them the following chrono- 
logical record may bear witness : 

" 1809. Suspended the projecting guard-beam by iron rods from above, — now uni- 
versal in river steamers. 

" 1813. First to fasten planks and braces of steamboats (in the 'Philadelphia') 
with screw bolts, and to place diagonal knees of wood and iron inside of them. 

" 1815. First to use steam expansively in steamboat 'Philadelphia.' 

" 1818. First to burn anthracite coal in a cupola furnace, and subsequently to in- 
troduce this fuel in fast steamers — the ' Passaic ' being the earliest to use it. 

" 1822. To substitute for the heavy, solid, cast-iron walking-beam of steamboats the 
skeleton wrought-iron walking-beam (in the 'Hoboken') now in. universal use. 

" 1824. First to place the boilers on the guards, and to divide, in steamboat ' Tren- 
ton,' the buckets on the water-wheels. 



MISCELLANEOUS INVENTIONS BY THE STEVENSES 137 

" 1827. First, on steamboat ' North America,' to apply successfully artificial blast to 
the boiler furnace by means of blowers, and in the same boat to apply what is technically 
known as the hog-frame, now general in fast boats, consisting of the large timbers on the 
sides to prevent the boat from bending in the centre, or, as it is called, being hogged. This 
boat attained a speed of 15 miles per hour. 

" 1828. First applied steel spring bearings, under centre of the wheel-shaft of the 
steamer ' New Philadelphia.' 

" 1832. First to introduce, in the ' New Philadelphia,' perfect balance valves, now 
in general use in steamboats, which enables one man to work the largest engine with 
ease. In the same year he used braces to the connecting-rod, thus strengthening it and 
preventing its tremulous motion. 

" 1832-3. Constructed a boat (betweeen Camden and Philadelphia) capable of nav- 
igating through solid heavy ice. In the same year he constructed and introduced tubular 
boilers, having the fire under the bottom and returning through the tubes. 

" 1840. Improved the packing of pistons for steam-engines by using the pressure 
of steam instead of hemp, steel springs, india-rubber, etc., to retain the metallic packing-ring 
against the surface of the cylinder. One of these rings, which has been in use on board 
steamer ' Trenton ' since 1840, is at this day in good order. 

" 1841. The Stevens cut-off by means of main valves worked by two eccentrics, in- 
vented by R. L. Stevens and his nephew (for mechanical ingenuity and skill runs in the 
blood), F. B. Stevens; these are generally used now in the river boats and in the ocean 
steamers built in New York. In the same year he invented and applied on the Camden 
and Amboy railroad the double-slide cut-off for locomotives and large engines; and im- 
proved locomotives for transporting goods, etc., by using eight wheels, and with increased 
adhesion was enabled to turn short curves with little friction on the flanges ; also used 
anthracite as a fuel to great advantage on the heavy engines, weighing 24 tons, with wheels 
of 42 inches diameter, cylinders of 18 inches, and 34-inch stroke. 

" 1842. Having contracted to build for the United States government a large steam- 
er, shot and shell proof, R. L. Stevens built a steamboat at Bordentown for the sole pur- 
pose of experimenting on the forms and curves of propeller blades as compared with side 
wheels, and continued his experiments for many months, the result of which we may yet 
hope to see in an iron war steamer that will be invincible, and should be so named. While 
occupied with this design he invented about 1844, and took a patent for, a mode of turning" 
a steamship on a pivot, as it were, by means of a cross-propeller near the stern, so that 
if one battery were disabled she might in an instant, almost, present the other. 

"1848. This year succeeded in advantageously using anthracite in fast passenger 
locomotives. 

" 1849 witnessed the successful application of air under the bottom of steamer ' John 
Neilson,' whereby friction is diminished, and she has actually gone at the rate of 20 miles 
an hour ; this was the invention of R. L. Stevens and F. B. Stevens. The ' John Neilson ' 
also has another ingenious and effectual contrivance of R. L. Stevens, first used in 1849, for 
preventing ill consequences from the foaming of the boiler. 

" In conclusion of this dry and imperfect chronological recital of some of R. L. 
Stevens's contributions to the mechanic arts, to public convenience and national power as 
well as renown, it must be added that Mr. Stevens is himself the modeller of all the vessels 
built by or for him, and many of our fastest yachts are of his molding; and especially the 
' Maria,' which beat without difficulty the victorious ' America,' which in her turn carried 
the broom at her mast-head through the British Channel, distancing all competitors, as she 
continues to do, I believe, under her new owner, in the Mediterranean. 



138 THE STEVENS INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY 

" Of such a man, not the mechanics only of our city, among whom he has worked 
and is well known, but the nation may well be proud. 

" The locomotives first used on the Camden and Amboy railroad were made or con- 
structed by Robert L. Stevens at his works, or upon his models in England, differing in de- 
tails from those in use in England. At the outset he applied a spark-catcher, though 
patents for like contrivances have since been taken out; and he invented and applied then, 
and has continued ever since, and other railways have adopted, the contrivance of the guide, 
or cowcatcher,^ as it is commonly called from an incidental function it discharges, of which 
the wheels, easily following the curves, give a direction to the forward wheels of the loco- 
motive, fixed on an axle slightly movable, as with the forward pair of carriage wheels, 
and thus enable it, without danger of flying off at a tangent, to diverge from its straight, 
onward, rapid course." 

Following is an excerpt from an address by Mr. Charles H. Haswell be- 
fore the Institution of Naval Architects, delivered March 23, 1899: 

" John Stevens, of Hoboken, N. J., applied the parallel motion, invented in 1784, by 
James Watt, of England, to guide the piston-rod of an overhead or beam engine in the 
steamboat ' Phoenix'; in 1809 he patented shdes and a crosshead to guide the piston-rod; and 
in 1817 his son, Robert L. Stevens, applied a cut-off to an engine by a camboard, and in 
1852 he applied slides and a crosshead to the engine of the steamboat ' Trenton,' connecting 
the crosshead to the beam by a rod with bifurcated ends; which design, in a few years after, 
was improved by the use of two right-line rods, as now practised. . . . 

" In 1822 Robert L. Stevens largely increased the steam valves by assigning to the 
single one-third the diameter of the cylinder, and to the double beat a combined equivalent 
area. These latter were first introduced by him, in 1830, in the engine of the steamboat 
' New Philadelphia ', . . . 

" In 1839 Francis B. Stevens (nephew of Robert L. Stevens), of Hoboken, N. J., 
designed the cutting-off of steam by the addition of a second eccentric and rock-shaft, and 
in 1840 successfully applied it to the steamboat 'Albany.' 

" In 1842 Edwin A. Stevens, of Hoboken, N. J., designed, patented, and operated 
a closed fire- room in the steamboat ' Rainbow,' supplied with air by a fan blower located ex- 
ternally; and in 1845 the system was introduced in the U. S. S. 'Mississippi.' This patent 
is a U. S. Patent No. 2524, dated April i, 1842." 

Mr. J. Elfreth Watkins, C.E., in an address ' entitled " John Stevens and 
His Sons, Early American Engineers," delivered before the Philosophical Society 
of Washington, May 7, 1892, uttered the following appreciation of the work of 
this gifted family: 

" In 1 81 3 John Stevens designed an ironclad vessel with a ' saucer-shaped ' hull 
which was to be plated with iron and to carry a heavy battery. This vessel was designed 
to be secured to a swivel which was to be held in position by an anchor in the channel of 
the stream to be defended. Screw propellers driven by steam engines were to be placed 

1 " The reader should notice that the rigid iron cowcatcher now affixed to the front of a locomotive 
is not the ingenious contrivance here described, with its ' pilot-wheels ' for guiding and steadying the engine in 
its progress." — Eugene B. Cook. 

''■ This address was printed in pamphlet form by W. F. Roberts, Washington, D. C. 



MISCELLANEOUS INVENTIONS BY THE STEVENSES 139 

beneath the vessel (in order that they would be safe from injury by shot), and connected 
with the machinery, which was arranged to cause the vessel to be rapidly revolved about 
the swivel in its centre. Each gun was to be fired as it was brought into line, and was 
to be reloaded before it came around again. This was an early embodiment of the ' Moni- 
tor ' principle. It was the first ironclad ever designed. . . . 

" In 1821 he [Robert L. Stevens] originated the form of ferry-boats and ferry-slips 
now in general use, constructing the ferry-slips with spring piling and fenders. In 1818 he 
invented the camboard cut-off, and applied it to the steamboat ' Philadelphia ' on the Del- 
aware ; this being the first application of the expansive action of steam to navigation. In 
1818 he adopted the working (or walking) beam and improved it by making it of wrought- 
iron strap with a cast-iron centre; in 1829 he adopted the shape now universally used in 




The Yacht " Maria " Rigged as a Schooner. The " Great Eastern '" in Back- 
ground TO THE Left 

this country. He invented the split water-wheel in 1826, and in 1831 the balance-valve 
which is now always used on the beam engine. . . . Beginning with a pressure of two 
pounds to the square inch he increased the strength of his boilers until fifty pounds could 
be safely carried. He made his first marine tubular boiler in 1831. He reduced the vi- 
bration of the hull and added greatly to the strength by the overhead truss frame of masts 
and rods now used. . . . 

" Toward the close of the War of 1812 Robert L. Stevens was engaged in making 
a bomb that could be fired from a cannon instead of from a mortar, in order that it might 
be applied to naval warfare. He succeeded in producing a successful percussion shell, 
which was adopted by the United States government, who purchased a large quantity to- 
gether with the secret of its construction.' . . . 

^ See ante, p. 121. 



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" In 1844 he designed and built the ' Maria,' the fastest saiHng-vessel of her day. 
This was the yacht that defeated the 'America' in New York harbor a month before the 
latter won the memorable race on the Solent. It was in this race^ that her Majesty, Queen 
Victoria, when she asked her favorite skipper who was first and second in the race, 
received for a reply ' The " America " leads, there is no second.' 

" Robert L. Stevens will be remembered as the greatest American mechanical 
engineer — a most intelligent naval architect — to whom the world is indebted for the 
commencement of the mightiest revolution in the methods of modern naval warfare. . . . 

" The laborious and useful life of Edwin A. Stevens was occupied in the Hfelong 
management of his father's estate, on which the city of Hoboken now stands ; in the organ- 
ization, construction, and operation of the Camden and Amboy Railroad, of which he was 
the active business manager; in making improvements in steam navigation; in the great 




Race Between Yachts " America " and " Maria," the Latter, 
Rigged as a Sloop, in the Foreground 

part taken by him in the introduction of iron armor on ships of war ; and in devising 
methods of attack and defence for ironclads. . . . During that period (1820-25) he in- 
vented and patented the Stevens plough, which was much liked and extensively used for 
years. ... In 1825, at the age of 30, he took charge of the Union Line, which then car- 



well defended by success!- 



in her hull and spars by Ed 
She disappeared mysteriously 



\merican yachts, and 
A 



Stevens, but re- 
being, it is sup- 



' The " America Cup," which has been s 
is still held in this country, was won in this race. 

The " Maria" was modified from time to 
mained to the last the fastest sailing-vessel of her 
posed, run away with and lost at sea. 

Another evidence of the remarkable speed of the " Maria " was furnished during the visit of the 
Prince of Wales to America in i860. Mr. E. A. Stevens, then Commodore of the New York Yacht Club, sailed 
down the bay in the " Maria " to meet the Prince, who was coming from Elizabethport to New York on his 
way from Philadelphia on the fast revenue-cutter steamboat " Harriet Lane." Commodore Stevens sailed past 
the approaching steamboat, saluting, and, rounding to in her wake, proceeded to follow her up toward New 
York; but it was soon noticed that the " Maria " was fast overhauling the steamer, and in fact soon passed her, 
to the profound surprise of all present. — Editor, 



MISCELLANEOUS INVENTIONS BY THE STEVENSES 141 

ried nearly all the passengers and freight between New York and Philadelphia. The Union 
Line was organized in 1820, and it consisted of steamboats on the Raritan and Delaware, 
and of coaches on the turnpike between Trenton and New Brunswick, and after the year 
1827 it was chiefly owned by Robert L., Edwin A., and John C. Stevens, Edwin remaining 
its business manager until it was merged into the Camden and Amboy Railroad in 1832. . . . 
He remained business manager of the Camden and Amboy Railroad for upward of 
thirty-five years, during which time the stock constantly appreciated in value and no divi- 
dend was passed." 




The " Philadelphia," or " Old Sal " 

Built in 1813 

"Appleton's Encyclopedia of American Biography" (V. 673) contains the 
follownng in regard to the improvements made by John and Robert L. Stevens in 
the construction of ferry-boats and steamships : 

"On October 11, 1811, he [John Stevens] established the first steam ferry in the 
world, with the ' Juliana,' which plied between New York and Hoboken. In 181 3 he in- 
vented and built a ferry-boat made of two separate boats, with a paddle-wheel between 
them, which was turned by six horses. On account of the simplicity of its construction and 
its economy, this description of horse-boat continued long in use on the East River and on 
the Hudson." . . . 

"At the death of Fulton the speed of steamboats on the Hudson was under seven 
miles an hour, and at about that date Robert L. Stevens built the ' Philadelphia,' which 
had a speed of eight miles. He built many steamboats, increasing the speed of each succes- 
sive one up to 1832, when the 'North America' attained fifteen miles. From 1815 until 
1840 he stood at the head of his profession in the United States as a constructor of steam 



142 THE STEVENS INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY 

vessels and their machinery, making innumerable improvements, which were generally adop- 
ted." 

In a paper ^ on " Forced Combustion in Steam-Boilers," read before the In- 
ternational Engineering Congress, Division of Marine and Naval Engineering and 
Naval Architecture, held in connection with the World's Columbian Exposition 
at Chicago, July 31-August 5, 1893, Mr. James Howden, M.I.C.E., M.I.N.A., 
etc., said: 

" So far as the writer has yet learned from published statements, the honor of first 
using a blowing fan to accelerate combustion in a steamboat belongs to Mr. Edwin A. Stev- 
ens, of Bordentown, in the State of New Jersey, who in 1827, in the steamer ' North Amer- 
ica,' fitted the boilers with closed ash-pits, into which the air of combustion was forced by 
a fan. In 1828 it is also stated that in England the famous pioneer in many engineering 
novelties, Ericsson, fitted in a similar manner the steamer ' Victory,' commanded by Sir 
John Ross. No details, however, of these applications are given or probably exist. As 
regards that of Ericsson, the writer has been unable to learn anything further than that 
some use of a fan was made in this steamer; but whether it was continued for any period, 
or what was the character of the results, no record appears to exist. It is probable that 
in the discussion of this paper some further information, regarding at least the case of the 
' North America,' may be forthcoming. It appears that Mr. E. A. Stevens, in conjunction 
with his brother Mr. R. L. Stevens, continued the use of forced draught for a considerable 
period, during which, it is recorded, they tried three different modes of using the fan for 
promoting combustion. The first, as mentioned, was blowing direct into a closed ash-pit; 
the second, exhausting the base of the funnel by the suction of the fan; the third, forcing 
air into an air-tight boiler-room or stokehold. 

" The two latter modes of accelerating combustion by means of a fan in furnaces 
of steam-boilers are the natural sequence of what would occur to an inventive mind after 
experiencing the difficulties arising from the first mode. In an article in the 'Engineer' 
of February 6, 1891, there are particulars given of these trials, taken from a letter of Mr. 
Francis B. Stevens, which appeared in the ' Engineering News ' of June 7, 1890. In an 
extract from this letter it is stated that in the use of the closed ash-pit, ' the blast-pressure 
would frequently force the gases of combustion, in the shape of a serrated flame, from the 
joint around the furnaces' doors in so great a quantity as to affect both the efficiency and 
health of the firemen.' It is therefore not surprising to find it recorded that Mr. R. L. 
Stevens tried, in 1836, a horizontal screw ventilator on a vertical spindle at the root of the 
chimney of the ' Passaic ' in New York harbor, and that in 1837-38 the brothers Stevens 
tried an exhaust-fan on a horizontal spindle in the chimney of a shop engine, and that in 
1838 they fitted a similar fan to the steamboat 'Philadelphia' on the Delaware River. 

" The last design of Mr. E. A. Stevens was that of the air-tight fire-room charged 
with air above atmospheric pressure, more generally known, since its resuscitation and its 
extensive use in warships in recent years, as the ' closed stokehold ' system." 

In the discussion which followed Mr. Howden stated further: 

"As mentioned in my paper, the first to try, so far as I can ascertain, ash-pit, suc- 
tion, and closed fire-room draughts by means of air supplied by a fan, was Mr. Edwin A. 
Stevens. It is only very lately that I came upon the facts in relation to those early investi- 

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ENGINEERING WORK OF THE STEVENS FAMILY 143 

Rations and operations in forced draught, bnt they leave no doubt whatever on my mind 
that to the late Mr. Edwin A. Stevens belongs the honor of being the originator of these 
three different systems in steamships ; and I have pecuhar pleasure indeed in finding that 
he is represented here to-day so ably by his son, Col. E. A. Stevens, who has materially 
contributed to the success of this Congress by the effective manner in which he has taken 
part in the discussions of various papers." 

Mr. C. S. Watkins, a resident of Denver, Colo., but formerly of Hoboken, 
N. J., gives to the Stevens brothers the credit of two useful inventions that have 
never before been recorded. From a letter written by him May 9, 1898, we quote 
the following- : 

" My father once accompanied Robert on a business trip to Amboy by steamboat. 
On the return trip, at night, the weather being severe, Robert expressed much sympathy 
for the steersman, who, as was then the practice, stood at the wheel — unsheltered — on 
the upper deck. At last Robert — in his usual emphatic manner • — said the pilot should have 
a shelter. Before that boat again left the city, he had caused a pilot-house to be erected 
around and over the wheel, and, immediately following, all the Stevens's boats were sim- 
ilarly provided. This was the first pilot-house. 

" The second invention was devised by Edwin. The great fire in New York city 
in 1842 caused such an immense amount of debris that the city took charge of its removal 
and advertised for proposals. Edwin made a bid and got the contract. Previous to that 
time all soil removals were made by the ' one-horse dumping-cart.' But Edwin then de- 
vised the ' two-horse dirt-wagon ' with loose sides and bottoms of narrow planks, now in 
universal use. 

" Pilot-houses and dumping-wagons are now as common as pegged boots, but although 
Leonardo da Vinci is known to fame as the inventor of the wheelbarrow no one seems to 
have preserved the name of the inventor of the dumping-wagon." 

For further reference to the achievements of John, Robert L., and Edwin 
A. Stevens, see Appleton's Encyclopedia of American Biography, Vol. V, pp. 
673-675- 

A SUMMARY OF THE ENGINEERING WORK OF THE STEVENS FAMILY 

President Charles King, of Columbia College, writing of John Stevens in 
1852, said: " Born to affluence, his whole life was devoted to experiments, at his 
own cost, for the common good " ; and the same may be said in substance as to 
his sons, Robert L. and Edwin A. Stevens. 



Ill 

THE TRUSTEES, FACULTY, AND ALUMNI 




W. W. Shippen 



THE 



I Trustees, Faculty, and Alumni 



THE biographies given in the first section of this book are Hmited to those 
who have not been, or are not now, connected Avith the Institute in any 
other capacity than that of Trustee. For example, that of President 
Morton, who was a Trustee for sixteen years, is placed at the head of the biogra- 
phies of the Faculty. In accordance with this plan those of President Humphreys 
and Mr. Wolff, both Permanent Trustees, are placed, one with the Faculty and 
the other with the Alumni; and the biographies of the Alumni Trustees who 
have served or are now serving limited terms of of^ce are also given with those of 
the Alumni. The names and portraits of all are, however, given here in the order 
of their appointment, first the Permanent Trustees and then the Alumni Trustees. 



148 THE STEVENS INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY 



THE PERMANENT TRUSTEES 
MARTHA BAYARD STEVENS 

Trustee, 1868-1899 

Mrs. Martha B. Stevens was the daughter of Professor Albert Baldwin 
Dod, of the College of New Jersey (now Princeton University), born in Prince- 
ton in 1 83 1. Her mother was Caroline Bayard, a branch of the family of William 
Bayard, a Tory, who owned the island of Hoboken before the War of Inde- 
pendence. As he remained loyal to the Crown, the land was declared forfeited, and 
was bought from the government by Colonel John Stevens. 

It thus came about that the Castle Point property, forfeited during the War 
of Independence, as above related, came back in the course of time to a member 
of the family originally owning it, and to her descendants. 

After the decease of her husband in 1868, Mrs. Stevens, with her family 
of young children, spent many years in Europe, but after her return to this coun- 
try she took great interest in the Institute, especially from Ihe social side. On 
all occasions when opportunity offered, she was quick to extend hospitality to dis- 
tinguished visitors, as well as to those connected with the Institute ; and such men 
as Professor Tyndall, Lord Kelvin, Major Herschell, and countless other men of 
science, who were attracted by the reputation of the Institute, have enjoyed en- 
tertainments of the most delightful character at her beautiful mansion on Castle 
Point, overlooking the bay and city of New York. She was always ready, also, to 
contribute to the pleasure of the Undergraduates and Alumni by many delight- 
i\\\ receptions at her house. Finally, in connection with the Twenty-fifth Anni- 
versary Celebration in 1897, she presented to the Trustees of the Institute the 
two lots and houses which for many years, and up to the time of his death, were 
occupied by President Morton as a residence. 

Mrs. Stevens was largely interested in works of humanity and charity. She 
built and endowed the Church of the Holy Innocents in Hoboken, presented the land 
on which were built the Free Public Library and Manual Training School, and 
gave largely to many other objects, both in New Jersey and elsewhere. She rep- 
resented New Jersey on the Board of Managers of the Columbian Exhibition at 
Chicago. 

Mrs. Stevens died April i, 1899. 



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SAMUEL BAYARD DOD 

Trustee, 1868- 

Samuel Bayard Dod, who is a brother of Mrs. Stevens, and son of Al- 
bert B. and Carohne Bayard Dod, was born December 3, 1837, in Princeton, N. J., 
where his father held the position of Professor of Mathematics in the College of 
New Jersey from 1830 until the time of his death in 1845. 

Mr. Samuel B. Dod graduated at Princeton in 1857, and after a year's 
study in Germany entered the Princeton Theological Seminary and graduated 
therefrom in 1861, receiving his A.M. degree from the College of New Jersey 
(now Princeton University). He then served for seven years in the Presbyterian 
ministry at Monticello, N. Y., and at Wilkes-Barre, Pa. 

In 1868, having been named as one of the executors of the estate of Edwin 
A. Stevens, he came to Hoboken and entered on the management of the estate in 
association with Mr. William W. Shippen. The executors were charged by the 
will of Mr. Stevens with the duty of establishing on the block of ground bordered 
by River and Hudson streets, between Fifth and Sixth streets, " an institution of 
learning for the benefit of the youth residing from time to time in the State of 
New Jersey." In the discharge of this trust Mr. Dod found a congenial task 
which enlisted his hearty interest from the first. 

After obtaining as accurate information as could be had of the technical 
schools at Berlin, Zurich, and Mannheim, and visiting the mining and engineering 
schools of this country, it seemed that a school of mechanical engineering would 
fill a gap in the educational facilities of the United States and be a fitting memorial 
to a family whose talents for two generations had made such valuable contribu- 
tions to the progress of that science. 

As a preliminary to the opening of the Stevens Institute of Technology, a 
school for the fitting preparation of students to enter the same was opened, 
as the course of study in the public schools at that time was not sufficiently 
advanced. 

When Dr. Morton was selected as President of the new institution, Mr. 
Dod cooperated with him in the selection of the Faculty of instructors, in plan- 
ning the course of instruction, in the location of the buildings, and in the purchase 
of apparatus. He was also a frequent visitor at the Physical Laboratory when 
interesting experiments Avith the new apparatus were being made. 

In the growth of the Institute, the high reputation which its Professors 
have established at home and abroad, the splendid record of its graduates who have 
gone forth to fill places of honor and trust in their profession, he has an abiding 
source of pleasure and pride. 



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WILLIAM W. SHIPPEN 

Trustee, 1868-1885 

William W. Shippen, the second son of Richard and Anna EHzabeth 
Shippen, was born October 9, 1827. He was educated at Bordentown and at Bol- 
mar's well-known school at West Chester, Pa. In 1843 ^e received an appoint- 
ment as acting-midshipman in the United States Navy, and was serving on the 
man-of-war " Princeton," on her trial trip down the Potomac River, with Presi- 
dent Tyler, members of his Cabinet, and a distinguished company on board, when 
Commodore Stockton's 100-pound gun exploded, killing A. P. Upshur, Secretary 
of State, Thomas W. Oilman, the Secretary of the Navy, the father of President 
Tyler's second wife, and several others. Late in 1844 l""^ entered the employment 
of Mr. Edwin A. Stevens, when he settled in Hoboken, where he passed the rest 
of his life. In September, 1853, he married Georgina INIorton, daughter of George 
W. Morton, of Hoboken and New York. 

During the Civil War, in 1862, he had command of the " Naugatuck," a 
vessel fitted out by Mr. E. A. Stevens to assist in opposing the rebel ram " Merri- 
mac," and remained with her until the bursting of her 100-pound Parrott gun put 
her out of commission. — a singular coincidence when noted in connection with 
the disaster on the " Princeton." mentioned above. 

In 1868 he was appointed one of the executors of Mr. E. A. Stevens's will, 
and was chiefly occupied with the management of that estate, which included three 
ferries between New York and Hoboken and large amounts of real estate. As a 
Trustee of the Institute he confined his attention chiefly to the management of its 
financial affairs. He died September 2. 1885. at his seaside residence at Sea- 
bright, N. J. 




HENRY MORTON, Ph.D., Sc.D., LL.D. 

Trustee, 1885-IQ02 
(For biography of President Morton see page 165.) 



RY Morton 



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ANDREW CARNEGIE 



Trustee, i8pi- 




Andrew Car^ 



Andrew Carnegie was born in Dunfermline, Fifeshire, Scotland, No- 
vember 25, 1837. He came with his family to the United States in 1848 and set- 
tled in Pittsburg. His first employment was in a cotton factory at Allegheny, Pa., 
where he was engaged as a bobbin-boy. In his next position he attended a small 

stationary engine, after which he became a tele- 
graph messenger-boy in the Pittsburg office of 
the Ohio Telegraph Co. in 185 1. About this time 
he began to study telegraphy, and later secured 
a position as telegraph operator with the Penn- 
sylvania Railroad Co., in whose service he was 
quickly advanced, through successive positions, to 
the office of superintendent of the Pittsburg Di- 
vision of the Pennsylvania System. 

While in the employ of the Pennsylvania 
Co. he joined with Mr. Woodruff, inventor of 
the sleeping-car, in the organization of the Wood- 
ruff Sleeping Car Co., and it was in this company 
that Mr. Carnegie gained the nucleus of the great 
fortune which he acquired in later years. With 
profits secured in the sleeping-car business he entered a syndicate formed to pur- 
chase the Storey farm on Oil Creek for $40,000, which, within a year, yielded 
over $1,000,000 in cash dividends. 

During the Civil War he served as superintendent of military railways and 
government telegraph lines. After the war he developed iron works of various 
kinds, and established at Pittsburg the Keystone Bridge Works and the Union 
Ironworks. He adopted the Bessemer process of making steel in 1868. Later 
he became the principal owner of the Homestead and Edgar Thomson Steel 
Works and other large plants, and also head of the firms of Carnegie, Phipps, & 
Co., and Carnegie Bros. & Co. The organizations in which he held a controlling 
interest Avere consolidated in 1899 in the Carnegie Steel Co., and this in turn was 
merged in the United States Steel Corporation in 1901, when Mr. Carnegie re- 
tired from active participation in the iron and steel business which tmder his mas- 
terful direction had become the foremost American industry. 

Mr. Carnegie has given generously of his immense fortune for educational 
purposes, establishing libraries or institutions of learning in more than a thousand 
cities and towns in the United States, Great Britain, Canada, and other British 
colonies. Some of his largest gifts include $10,000,000 to the Carnegie Institute at 
Pittsburg; $5,200,000 for a system of branch libraries in New York; $10,000,000 



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for the Carneg-ie Institution at Washington; $10,000,000 to Scotch universi- 
ties ; $5,000,000 to the fund for the benefit of the employees of the Carnegie Steel 
Co.; $1,500,000 for a Peace Temple at The Hague, etc. 

The Stevens Institute of Technology shares with other beneficiaries of 
Mr. Carnegie's generosity, and it is a rare privilege to record here our hearty 
appreciation of the endowed Laboratory of Engineering which bears his name. 

Mr. Carnegie has contributed many articles to periodicals on social and 
economic questions, and is author of " An American Four-in-Hand in Britain," 
1883; "Round the World," 1884; "Triumphant Democracy," 1886; "The Gos- 
pel of Wealth," 1900; " Empire of Business," 1902, and other essays. In 1903 he 
became Lord Rector of the University of St. Andrew at Edinburgh, also Presi- 
dent of the Iron and Steel Institute. He is a member of the Engineers', Au- 
thors', Aldine, Lotus, Union League, South Side Sportsmen's, and Nineteenth 
Century clubs ; the American Fine Arts, Musical Art, and Pennsylvania societies ; 
the Metropolitan Museum of Art; the American Institute of Mining Engineers; 
and the American Institute of Mechanical Engineers. 

Mr. Carnegie married Miss Louise Whitfield in 1887. They have one 
daughter. 




ALEXANDER CROMBIE HUMPHREYS, 
M.E., Sc.D., LL.D. 

Trustee, 1891- 

(For biography of President Humphreys, 

see page 195.) 



A. C. Humphreys 



CHARLES MACDONALD, C.E., LL.D. 

Trustee, iSpi-ipo^ 



Charles Macdonald was born in Gananoque, Canada, of Scotch ances- 
try, January 26, 1837. His father was a prominent merchant and a member of 
the famous family of Macdonald of Athol, Perthshire, Scotland. On the mater- 
nal side Mr. Macdonald's ancestry in America dates back to 1639, when William 



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Stone emigrated from England and located in the old town of Guilford, Connec- 
ticut. Joel Stone, son of William, was prominent in the Revolutionary War, and 
barely escaped hanging as a Tory, he making his escape by a daring and judicious 
flank movement on Long Island, where the British troops were then stationed. Joel 
Stone was a great-grandfather of the subject of this sketch. 

Charles Macdonald received his academic education at the Queen's Uni- 
versity, Kingston, Ontario, Canada, subsequently 
attending and graduating from the Rensselaer 
Polytechnic Institute, of Troy, N. Y. After fin- 
ishing his course of studies at the latter place of 
learning as a civil engineer, he became an assist- 
ant on construction of the Grand Trunk railway 
in Michigan; thence on the Philadelphia and 
Reading railroad, in charge of survey and con- 
struction, until the year 1868, when he came to 
New York and engaged in the business of bridge 
construction, making it a specialty. How he has 
succeeded in his profession all the world knows. 
He has been directly connected with bridge build- 
ing since 1868, with headquarters at New York, 
and has assisted in the construction of the Hawks- 
burg Bridge in Australia, the Leavenworth Bridge, the Poughkeepsie Bridge, and 
the Merchants' Bridge at St. Louis. In 1884 Mr. Macdonald associated himself 
with the Union Bridge Co. as a member of that concern, and was senior member 
at the time of its absorption by the American Bridge Co. in May, 1900. 

He is a member of the American Society of Civil Engineers; of the 
American Institute of Mining Engineers of Canada ; the Society of Civil Engineers 
of England; and of the Century, Union, and Engineers' clubs, of New York. 
He is an ex-Trustee of the East River Bridge and a Trustee of the Rensselaer 
Polytechnic Institute at Troy. His degree of Civil Engineer was conferred by 
the former Institute, and the degree of Doctor of Laws by Queen's University, 
of Kingston, Ontario. He resigned the office of Trustee of Stevens Institute of 
Technology in 1903. 

Mr. Macdonald was married to Sarah L. Willard, a daughter of the late 
Col. William T. Willard, of Troy, N. Y., August 5, 1861, and five children have 
blessed their union, two of whom have passed away. Those living are William 
Stone, Mary Louisa, and Lillie Paine Macdonald. 




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ALEXANDER T. McGILL, LL.D. 

Trustee, i8pi-ipoo 

Alexander Taggart McGill was born in Allegheny City, Pa., October 
20,-1843. His father, the Rev. Alexander T. McGill, D.D., LL.D., was then 
Professor of Church History in the Western Theological Seminary in that city; 
in 1854 he accepted the Chair of Ecclesiastical, Homiletic, and Pastoral Theol- 
ogy in the Theological Seminary of the College of 
New Jersey. 

The subject of this sketch graduated in 
1864 from the latter institution, which later con- 
ferred upon him the degree of Doctor of Laws. 
In 1866 he graduated from Columbia Law 
School, New York, with the degree of Bachelor 
of Laws. He continued his study of law in the 
office of the late Supreme Court Justice, Edward 
W. Scudder, at Trenton, N. J., and in 1867 was 
admitted to the bar as an attorney, and three years 
later as a counsellor. 

He was counsel for the city of Bayonne, 
N. J., during 1874-75. At the same time he rep- 
resented the then First District of Hudson Coun- 
ty in the House of Assembly, serving on leading committees and taking a very 
active part in legislation. He also became a law partner of the late ex- Attorney- 
General Gilchrist. He served one term as Prosecutor of the Pleas of Hudson 
County, succeeding the Hon. A. Q. Garretson, Avho was appointed Law Judge, and 
when the latter resigned that office Mr. McGill again succeeded him as Judge, an 
office he held when he was appointed Chancellor by Governor Green, March 29, 
1887. He was unanimously confirmed by the Senate two days later. At the ex- 
piration of his term of office in 1894 he was reappointed by Governor Werts and 
again unanimously confirmed by the Senate. He was the Democratic candidate 
for Governor of New Jersey in 1895, but, with his party, was defeated. 

His untiring devotion to the duties of the office of Chancellor during the 
thirteen years of his incumbency was a severe strain, and after a year of failing 
health' he passed away, April 21, 1900. 




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EDWIN A. STEVENS 

Trustee, i8pi- 

Edwin a. Stevens, second son of Edwin A. Stevens, Founder of the 
Stevens Institute, was born in Philadelphia March 14, 1858. He was educated 
at St. Paul's School, Concord, N. H.. from which he entered Princeton, gradu- 
ating in 1879. He has since then been employed in the management of the 

Hoboken Land and Improvement Company in 
various capacities. 

In spite of a lack of technical education 
he has been busy mainly with engineering matters. 
His best-known work has been the designing 
of screw ferry-boats, a type which he originated 
and is now much used in this country. He 
has also worked on the designs of high-speed 
steam-engines and machine tools. At present he 
is engaged as consulting engmeer for the City 
of New York in the matter of the construction 
of ferry-boats for the Staten Island Ferry, and 
he is also in charge of the design of ferry-boats 
for the Lackawanna Railroad Co. to ply in 
New York harbor. He is vice-president of the 
Society of Naval Architects and Marine Engineers. He was connected with the 
National Guard of the State of New Jersey for twelve years, being a portion of 
that time in command of the Second Regiment. He resigned in 1892. 

He has been a Democrat in politics, and was Presidential Elector in 1888 
and 1892. His residence is Castle Point, Hoboken. 

Mr. Stevens has contributed the following papers to engineering literature : 

" Performances of the ' Bergen ' and ' Orange ' Steam Ferry-Boats," written, in con- 
j miction with Prof. J. E. Denton, for the American Society of Mechanical Engineers, and 
published in the Transactions of that Society. 

" Screw Ferry-Boats," for the Society of Naval Architects and Marine Engineers. 

" Ferry-Boat Performances," for Stevens Institute Indicator, 1900. 

"Tidal Corrections," written in conjunction with Mr. C. P. Paulding, M.E., for the 
Society of Naval Architects and Marine Engineers. 

"Application of Taylor's Analysis to the Performance of the Ferry-Boat ' Cincin- 
nati ' " (in conjunction with Mr. C. P. 'Pz\-\\(l\\\g,l\i.Y..), Stevens Institute Indicator, igoi. 

" Progressive Trial of the Ferry-Boat ' Edgewater,' " in conjunction with Mr. C. P, 
Paulding, M. E., for the Society of Naval Architects and Marine Engineers. 

" Progressive Trial of the Ferry-Boat ' Bremen,' " for the Society of Naval Archi- 
tects and Marine Engineers. 

" Screw Ferry-Boats," for Cassier's Magazine. 

"American Competition," ior Engineering (London), 1899. 




E. A. Stevens 



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RICHARD STEVENS 

Trustee, 1896- 

RiCHARD Stevens, son of Edwin A. Stevens (Founder of Stevens Insti- 
tute) and Martha B. Stevens, was born in Paris, France, May 23, 1868. He at- 
tended the Stevens High School during the scholastic year 1880-81, and then 
entered St. Paul's School at Concord, N. H., from which he was graduated in June, 

1886. He entered the Columbia College School of 
Arts in the fall of the same year, and graduated 
with the degree of Bachelor of Arts in 1890. 
After a two years' course in the Columbia Law 
School he entered the New York Law School, 
from which he was graduated in the spring of 
1893, receiving the diploma of the school. 

He was admitted to the bar of the State 
of New Jersey in November, 1893, as attorney- 
at-law. In 1896 he was elected second vice-presi- 
dent of the Hoboken Land and Improvement 
Company. In conjunction with Mr. Edwin A. 
Lewis and Mr. J. W. Rufus Besson he formed 
the law firm of Lewis, Besson, & Stevens, with 

Richard Stevens ^^ , , ■ r^ ^ 

ofhces at i Newark Street, Hoboken, m 1898, and 
is still engaged in the practice of law. 

He was married, November 11, 1893, to Miss Elizabeth C. Stevens, 
daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Francis B. Stevens, of Hoboken. Their home is sit- 
uated on the old family estate at Castle Point, Hoboken, N. J. 



HENRY R. TOWNE, C.E. 

Trustee, ipoo- 

Henry R. Towne was born in Philadelphia, Pa., in 1848. His father 
was John Henry Towne, a partner in the firm of I. P. Morris, Towne & Co., own- 
ing and operating the Port Richmond Iron Works. 

After completing an academic course of study, Henry R. Towne entered 
the University of Pennsylvania and remained there during the college years of 
1861-62, but the outbreak of the War of Secession led him to interrupt his studies 
and enter the draughting-room of the Port Richmond Iron Works, where he re- 
mained for nearly two years. In 1863 he was placed in charge of the government 
work in the shops connected with repairs on the gunboat " Massachusetts." 

The Port Richmond Iron Works had meanwhile taken a contract to fur- 




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H. R. Town 



nish the engines for the monitor " Monadnock," and in 1864 Henry R. Towne, 
then about twenty years old, was sent to assemble and erect them in the shops at 
the Charlestown, Mass., Navy Yard. He was subsequently sent to the Portsmouth, 
N. H., Navy Yard, in sole charge of erecting and testing the machinery of the 

monitor "Agamenticus " (now the "Terror"), 
and later of the cruiser " Pushmataha " at the 
Philadelphia Navy Yard. At the age of twenty- 
one he was placed in general charge of the shops 
of the Port Richmond Iron Works as acting su- 
perintendent. Boys developed rapidly during the 
great national upheaval which followed the at- 
tempted secession, and those equal to great re- 
sponsibilities foimd the opportunity to show what 
was in them. 

When the strain was relieved by the res- 
toration of peace, Mr. Towne realized the need 
of exact knowledge in many lines of study which 
the war had interrupted. He became a close and 
industrious student under the guidance and in- 
struction of the late Robert Briggs, and accompanied him on an engineering tour 
through Great Britain, Belgium, and France. Before returning he took a special 
course in physics at the Sorbonne, Paris. During this time his father had dis- 
posed of his manufacturing interests and retired from business. After returning 
to the United States the young man spent a year in further study and experiment- 
al work with Robert Briggs. During this association he carried on numerous ex- 
periments with leather belting, the results of which were accepted as standard 
for twenty years. For further education in the designing and use of special ma- 
chinery Mr. Towne entered the shop of William Sellers & Co., devoted to the 
production of GifiFard injectors. 

In the summer of 1868 a mutual friend introduced Mr. Towne to Linus 
Yale, Jr., a talented and ingenious inventor of locks, whose business, chiefly in 
bank locks, then employed about thirty-five men. Foreseeing great possibilities 
in the then recent invention by Mr. Yale of the lock with a small flat key now 
vmiversally known as the " Yale lock," Mr. Towne proposed a partnership in 
which he should undertake the manufacturing management, and which resulted 
in October, 1868, in the organization at Stamford, Conn., of what is now the 
Yale & Towne Manufacturing Co. The association thus formed lasted but three 
months, being terminated by the premature death of Mr. Yale in December, 1868. 
Since then Mr. Towne, as President, has controlled and directed the enterprise 
thus begun. 

Mr. Yale's legacy to the new concern was one of brilliant ideas, which have 
since revolutionized American practice in lock-designing, but which could be 



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D0RAND Woodman 



Alumni Trustees 



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made commercially valuable only if reduced to practice by just such work as Mr. 
Towne had undertaken to perform. This work occupied the succeeding ten years 
and forms the basis on which has been reared a great industry which is still in 
process of vigorous development. Starting with Mr. Yale's radical departure 
from previous types of lock-construction, Mr. Towne's work has greatly ampli- 
fied these original features, and has embodied with them equally radical departures 
in design and workmanship, especially in methods of production, which have be- 
come the accepted standards of the trade. 

In the brief space at the writer's command it would be impossible to give 
even an idea of the variety and perfection of the special machinery employed at 
Stamford in the production of locks, or of the steps of growth from small begin- 
nings in 1869, when Mr. Towne became President, to the present daily output of 
25,000 locks and an organization under normal conditions employing 1,500 men. 
During these thirty years almost every improvement in locks and lockmaking 
machinery has come from the Stamford works. What Mr. Towne has accom- 
plished in useful results is shown in the thirteen volumes of the Yale & Towne 
Manufacturing Co.'s catalogue, in which more than ten thousand separate arti- 
cles of manufacture are illustrated and described. 

Mr. Towne has been prominently identified with several engineering socie- 
ties, and has filled with dignity many positions of honor and responsibility. One 
of the early members of the American Society of Mechanical Engineers, he be- 
came its president in 1888 and was made chairman of the large party of Ameri- 
can engineers, representing the three great American engineering societies, which 
visited Europe in 1889. His contributions to technical literature, standard and 
current, though mainly relating to his own work, have shown a scholarly mind, 
a rare breadth of culture, and a clear appreciation of the relation of theory to 
practice in useful undertakings. 




ALFRED R. WOLFF, M.E. 

Trustee, ipoo- 

(For biography of Mr. Wolff see section devo ted to 
the Alumni.) 



A. R. WOLFF 



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Alumni Trustees 



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GEORGE B. M. HARVEY 



Trustee, jpo2- 




G. B. M. Harvey 



George B. M. Harvey was born of Scottish ancestry at Peacham, Vt., 
February i6, 1864. He was educated at the Caledonia Grammar School in that 
town, and at the age of eighteen became a reporter on the staff of the Spring- 
field " Republican," one of the foremost papers in New England, and remained 
there two years. 

When twenty-one years old he went to 
New York and became a reporter for the 
" AA^orld." For nearly seven years he served that 
paper, rising from place to place on its staff until 
he became managing editor. In 1893 his health 
became impaired and he was compelled to resign. 

Mr. Harvey soon after turned his atten- 
tion to business affairs. For two years he was 
associated with William C. AMiitney. Then he 
undertook the de\'elopment of electric railroad 
and lighting concerns on his own account. He 
built the electric roads on Staten Island, and at 
Long Branch, Asbury Park, and elsewhere on 
the New Jersey coast. In 1898 he formed what 
was known as the Harvey Syndicate, and purchased the street railroads of Havana 
and other properties in Cuba. 

]\Ir. Harvey, at the age of twenty-one, was appointed aide-de-camp, with 
the rank of colonel, on the staff of Governor Green of New Jersey. He was 
reappointed and made chief of staff by Governor Abbett, and declined another 
appointment at the hands of Governor Werts. He was also appointed Commis- 
sioner of Banking and Insurance by Governor Abbett, but resigned the place after 
a few months, in order to give his full time to newspaper work. He also declined 
the place of Consul-General at Berlin, which was offered to him by President 
Cleveland. 

Earhf in 1899 Col. Harvey purchased and became editor of the " North 
American Review," perhaps the most noted of literary and critical periodicals in 
the United States. In November, 1899, financial distress overtook the famous 
publishing-house of Harper & Brothers, and Col. Harvey, at the solicitation of 
all parties in interest, ■ undertook the task of reorganization. Within two years he 
succeeded beyond the ex^pectations of himself or anybody else, and the house is 
now more prosperous than ever before in its long history. Besides being presi- 
dent and chief owner of the publishing concern, he is the editor of " Harper's 
Weekly." He is also a director of several financial institutions, and a member of 
the principal clubs in New York and London. 



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THE ALUMNI TRUSTEES 

The graduates who have served, or who are serving, as Alumni Trustees, 
and whose portraits are given in this section, are as follows. Their biographies 
may be found in alphabetical order with those of the Alumni toward the end of 
this volume. The years during which they held office are svib joined : 



1887- 


1890 


1890- 


1893 


1892- 


1895 


1892- 


189s 


1893- 


1894 


1894- 


1896 


1894- 


1897 


1895- 


1898 


I896-I897 


1897- 


1900 


1898- 


I90I 


1899- 


1902 


I900-I903 


I90I- 


1904 


1902- 


1905 


1903- 


1906 



Alfred Philip Trautwein, M.E., ''j^ 
William Kent, M.E., 'y^i 
William Hewitt, M.E., '74 
Alfred R. Wolff, M.E., '76 
Edward Barry Wall,^ M.E., 'yd 
DuRAND Woodman, Ph.D., '80 
Frank E. Idell, M.E., ''jy 
George Meade Bond, M.E., '80 
Harry de Berkeley Parsons, M.E., '84 
Lewis Hallock Nash, M.E., ''jy 
John William Lieb, Jr., M.E., '80 
George J. Roberts, M.E., '84 
Alten S. Miller, M.E., '88 
William Lord Lyall, M.E., '84 
Carter H. Page, Jr., M.E., '87 
Edward A. Uehling, M.E., 'jj 

1 Deceased, 1894. 




Henry Morton 

From His Favorite Photograph 



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THE FACULTY 

HENRY MORTON, Ph.D., Sc.D., LL.D. 

President of the Stevens Institute of Technology from its beginning until the day 
of his death, May p, ipos.^ 

Any one attempting to write of the life of Henry Morton must at once be 
impressed with the difficuhy presented by reason of his many-sided Hfe ; but the 
very nature of the difficuhy suggests a way to meet it, — to let those who have 
worked with him in the various fields join in the telling of his life. 

Prof. R. H. Thurston, in a recent issue of " Science," in the present connec- 
tion, said : 

" Nor can his work be fully appreciated by any one man or by any one class of men, 
so varied has it been in character, in its fields of action, and in its specialization. 

"Physicist and engineer; chemist and educator; investigator and legal expert; lin- 
guist, editor, and writer; man of business and philanthropist; pioneer in the reduction of 
the art of the mechanic and inventor to a professional and scientific form; mechanic, in- 
ventor, and organizer, and administrator, — his many-sidedness necessarily precludes alike 
appreciation, correct judgment, and exact quantitative measurement of his life's work. 
Whoever studies the life of the man and endeavors to weigh his work and its productive value 
to the world will at least conclude the investigation impressed with the conviction that this 
was the rarest of rare cases, that of the man of genius, at once brilliant and versatile, and 
fruitful of good works in many departments ordinarily supposed to be far separated, as 
vocations, by the constitution of the human mind. But heredity, environment, and an irre- 
pressible ambition conspired with extraordinary powers to make this life fruitful in both 
opportunity and accomplishment." 

This from a man well qualifi.ed to judge, who was closely associated with 
President Morton in the first years at Stevens Institute, when the experiment in 
education was in course of development into the acknowledged success. 

The dry record of the work he accomplished would be sufficient to show 
how much the world has gained through this man's life; from the more intimate 
record of his daily life we should again find inspiration. 

In 1892, in connection with the presentation by the Alumni to Stevens In- 
stitute of a portrait of President Morton, a biographical sketch of him was pub- 
lished under the direction of Prof. Coleman Sellers, E.D., and Prof. Albert R. 
Leeds, Ph.D. 

Shortly before his death there was prepared a much briefer sketch of his 
life, to be included in a volume " which was originally intended to have been pub- 

1 This account of President Morton's life was written and arranged by his close friend and successor, 
President Alexander C. Humphreys, M.E., Sc.D., LL.D., for the " Stevens Institute Indicator," in which it ap- 
peared, July, 1902. 

^ The volume here referred to is the present book. At the time of President Humphreys' writing it was 
the intention to issue the book under the title of the " 25th Anniversary Volume," but later the entire arrange- 
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lished shortly after, and in commemoration of, the Institute's Twenty-fifth Anni- 
versary. This volume, now most appropriately, will be completed in such a man- 
ner as to serve as a memorial to Dr. Morton, for in addition to this sketch of his 
life it will contain the complete history of the Institute during his leadership and 
the records of the work accomplished by the Alumni. In these last will be again 
fittingly found the reflected record of his work, for they are not the Alumni rec- 
ords of a college long established of which he was simply one of a series of heads, 
but they are the records of the Alumni of a college established and developed 
along lines yet untried. Even if these records stood alone they would be his suf- 
ficient monument. I shall draw upon these two sketches for the main facts in 
President Morton's life. 

Henry Morton was born in New York city on the nth of December, 
1836. His great-grandfather was John Morton, who came to New York in the 
commissary department of the British Army, from which he resigned to en- 
gage in business some years before the Revolution, at which time he took sides 
actively with the Colonies. John Morton's eldest son was Gen. Jacob Morton, 
whose youngest son. President Morton's father, was the Rev. Henry J. Morton, 
D.D., for fifty-six years rector of St. James's Episcopal Church, Philadelphia. 

Henry Morton entered the University of Pennsylvania at the age of seven- 
teen, and graduated therefrom in the class of 1857. 

Toward the close of his college life he suggested to some of his associates 
the taking up of a piece of work far beyond the ordinary range of student effort. He 
was a member of a college philosophical society called the Philomathean, to which 
was presented in 1856 a plaster cast of an engraved stone tablet, discovered in 
Egypt during the occupation under Napoleon, and named the Rosetta Stone, from 
the name of the town near which it was found. It contained inscriptions in three 
texts : Greek, demotic, and hieroglyphic, and was valued as a probable key to the 
interpretation of the last-named characters, with which the monuments of Egypt 
are covered. 

While this stone had been studied by others, no complete translation of all 
its texts had been made. Morton, rather in a spirit of fun, proposed in a meeting 
of the society that a committee be appointed to translate these inscriptions. This 
was agreed to, and the committee was constituted by the appointment of Morton, 
with Charles R. Hale and S. H. Jones as his associates. About this time Mor- 
ton's attention was directly turned to the study of the hieroglyphic language 
by reading a lecture on that subject by Cardinal Wiseman, and this led him to 
take up seriously the Rosetta Stone work, and he devoted almost all his spare 
time to the hieroglyphic inscription during his Junior and Senior years. Hale, 
of the committee, at the same time worked out translations of the Greek and 
demotic texts. 

But Morton went still further and illuminated each page of the report with 
an appropriate design in color. This remarkable manuscript attracted so much 



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attention that it was decided that it should be properly reproduced, and to do this 
it was found necessary to lithograph the entire work ; and to keep the cost within 
limits it was necessar}^ that Morton should himself draw all the designs on stone. 







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Without previous experience he undertook this work, and it was carried through 
successfully in about six months. Within two weeks the edition was exhausted, 
and it is now a " rare " book. Among others, Alexander von Humboldt wrote 
to the committee to express his appreciation of the importance of this work. 



i68 THE STEVENS INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY 

This early effort indicated what was to be expected from Henry Morton 
in the way of daring, versatiHty, and perseverance. 

In 1859 he took up the study of law, but this was not for long. By accident 
he was now turned definitely in the direction of science. His father was a trus- 
tee of the Episcopal Academy of Philadelphia, from which Henry Morton had 
graduated into the University of Pennsylvania. The trustees of the Academy were 
desirous of getting in line with the movement favoring the claims of natural 
science to a place in the school and college curriculum. The Academy was not finan- 
cially able to bear the expense of a new department, and so Henry Morton, hear- 
ing of the need through his father, volunteered to give lectures on chemistry and 
physics. This was the. commencement, and a notable commencement, of President 
Morton's career as a scientist. His lectures were so novel, lucid, brilliant, enter- 
taining, and instructive that the small lecture-room was soon found to be inade- 
quate, and the trustees found it necessary to add to the school building a larger 
lecture-room for the proper accommodation of the boys and the public. The fame 
of these lectures spread, and President Morton was offered other engagements as 
a lecturer and as a professor. 

In 1863 he accepted the professorship of chemistry in the newly organized 
Philadelphia Dental College; the next year he was appointed resident secretary of 
the Franklin Institute of Pennsylvania. This last had lapsed into a decrepit state, 
but the able men in its board recognized in Morton the very qualities needed to 
reinvigorate this formerly strong society. It was to augment the usefulness and 
pecuniary resources of the Franklin Institute that President Morton undertook the 
first of a series of public lectures on light, sound, and cognate topics. 

"The prime object of these lectures was to attract and interest the general public 
in scientific subjects, and with this object in view Prof. Morton made it his aim to develop 
experimental illustrations of the most striking and scenic character, utilizing for this purpose 
all the appliances of the scenery and stage mechanism which were at his command in such a 
place as the Academy or Opera House, and adding many devices of his own, especially con- 
structed for the object in view." 

On the occasion of the presentation of President Morton's portrait to 
Stevens Institute, his old friend and associate, Dr. Coleman Sellers, made the ad- 
dress in reply to the presentation address of Edward B. Wall, then President of 
the Alumni Association. 

Dr. Sellers told the history of these lectures so well that I shall quote him 
at length : 

" At one of the first meetings of the managers of the Franklin Institute after Mr. 
Morton's appointment, it was suggested that an excellent means of interesting the public 
at large in the objects of the Institute would be a course of scientific lectures, delivered 
in some large hall. 

" One of the managers was even so bold as to suggest the Opera House or Acad- 
emy of Music, one of the largest auditoriums in the country, seating more than 3,500 persons. 



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Others considered this too venturesome, but it was finally decided to leave this to Mr. Mor- 
ton's decision. 

"Deputed to communicate with Mr. Morton on this subject, I well remember the 
characteristic courage and enthusiasm with which he at once seized on the idea of making 




Lecture by Henry Morton at the Academy of Music, Philadelphia, 



the so-far unparalleled experiment of devising and executing illustrations on such a scale 
as should render them impressive on so large a stage and to so vast an audience. 

"All who came in contact with him were inspired with his confidence and enthusi- 
asm (myself among the number), and the preparations were commenced at once. 

" Some notices of these got abroad, and long before the date assigned for the lee- 



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ture every seat in the house was sold; and so pressing was the demand that the Academy 
was engaged for another evening, a few days later, and, before the night of the first de- 
livery arrived, every seat had been again sold for the repetition. 

" There are occasions, even in the life of a scientific professor, which call for no 
small stock of moral courage, and the evening in which Mr. Morton for the first time walked 
forward upon a public stage in the face of an audience which crowded every seat and 
every inch of standing-room, with the consciousness that he was committed to the absolute 
necessity of a success by the arrangements for the repetition, was one of them. 

" I was with him at the time, having undertaken the office of manager, to direct 
and superintend the work of his assistants behind the screen; and I have not forgotten 
what were my own feelings. 

" But when the curtain rose, he stepped forward with easy grace, amid the en- 
thusiastic applause which greeted his appearance, and began his lecture as calmly and col- 
lectedly as if he had done the same thing fifty times before. 

" He told me afterward that he was so anxious about the success of his experiments 
that he had no room in his mind for personal embarrassment, or the nervous agitation often 
caused by facing a great audience. 

" I need hardly say that the lecture throughout was a success. The clearness of the 
explanations and the novelty and beauty of the experiments held the audience in close at- 
tention for nearly two hours, and when Mr. Morton made his exit from the stage, amid 
applause even heartier than that which welcomed him, he carried with him a reputation 
as a scientific lecturer which I believe has never been equalled. 

"During the following years similar lectures on related subjects were given by 
Mr. Morton in the same place. Some of their titles were the following: 'Reflection,' 'Re- 
fraction,' ' Sunlight,' ' Moonlight,' ' Eclipses,' ' Fluorescence,' and so on. 

" In these lectures Mr. Morton used not only numberless new devices for the pro- 
duction of striking illustrations of scientific phenomena, but also brought into play ap- 
pliances of the stage, such as shifting scenery to aid m color effects, stage traps to bring 
apparatus into position when wanted, and endless other applications. 

" In looking over some old papers a few days since, I came across some interest- 
ing relics pertaining to these lectures in the shape of notes in Mr. Morton's writing, which 
were for my use as ' stage directions ' in the management of his assistants and in securing 
the prompt and orderly succession of the experiments. 

" They form curious reading and well illustrate how complex were the combina- 
tions and how necessary were complete organization and co-ordinate action to the success- 
ful presentation of these experiments. One of these memoranda reads as follows : 

"'Then, when through, Mclntyre will show diagram 6, Mr. Brown, Mr. Higby, etc., 
will then remove truck and lantern, while Mr. Sellers removes electric lamp to table and 
makes connections ready. Then Mr. Higby will RUN IN THE ANGEL, Mr. Sellers will light 
up electric lamp, Mr. Brown will light a red fire, and Mr. Stewart a piece of magnesium, as also 
Klapp, Phillips, etc. 

'"Then Mr. Higby will RUN OUT THE ANGEL, and Mclntyre will show diagrams 7 
and 8, while Mr. Sellers removes the electric lamp and gets ready red and green fires. 

" ' Show shadow of veil and needle. Send out lantern by Klapp and Phillips. 

'"Higby will then RUN IN EARTH, AND WORK MOON, then run off these and 
bring in movable flat. 

'"Mr. Higby will then RUN IN MOUNTAINS on background and bank in front while 
Mr. S. SETS THE SUN ON FLOOR IN POSITION FOR RISING. Show spectre of Brocken. 
During this time Mr. S. will arrange the other electric lamp BEHIND THE MOUNTAINS for 
next experiment. 



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" 'Mr. Outerbridge will tell Mr. Higby to lower white curtain, raise horizon drop, and 
RUN OUT MOUNTAINS, and Mclntyre to show diagrams 3 and 4. 

" ' Experiments with electric light in the sun. Mr. .S., on signal from Outerbridge, will 




Burning a Sword during the Course of a Lecture Delivered by Henry 
Morton at the Academy of Music, Philadelphia, May, 1868. 

light up and have combat of giant and dwarf. Klapp and Outerbridge. Rabbit on chair. 
CARRY OFF MEN IN HAND, run about and STEP INTO CEILING,' etc., etc., etc. 



" I also find among my notes the perorations or concluding paragraphs of two of 
Mr. Morton's lectures, which are interesting as illustrating the poetical forms of expres- 
sion which, judiciously introduced, added not a little to the charm of these discourses. The 
first was the conclusion to the lecture on ' Light,' in which the analogies, or, rather, close 



172 THE STEVENS INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY 

relations, between sound and light, had been dwelt upon and fully developed. It reads as 
follows : 

" ' From what has been seen this evening I hope that you will be able to attach a more 
definite meaning to that frequently used, though vague expression, "Music of the Spheres." 

" ' There is such music. All day long, from the glowing sun, pours down an harmoni- 
ous flood of commingled "light" notes, which are echoed, reflected, and reverberated in a 
thousand accordant tones from various natural objects. Then, when night comes upon the 
earth, the stars and planets from their far-off seats above the clouds send down songs, fainter 
but not less sweet, like the voices of birds, singing as they float and circle amid the sky. And 
always and in all places amid the nearer planets, and amid the more distant stars, and through- 
out the vast abyss of the universe, floats everywhere, floats eternally, that commingled sym- 
phony of luminous vibration which constitute the grand visible anthem of nature, the true 
"Music of the Spheres." ' 

" The other passage was the conclusion of a lecture on ' Color,' in which the com- 
position of sunlight and the characteristics of light from colored stars had been, among 
other things, fully explained. It runs as follows : 

" ' As a merely poetical and not a very strict analogy, we may regard this experiment 
as a spinning of colored light threads into a single white cord. From the lantern to the screen 
run at first the seven colored threads, distinct and distinguishable at every point — then we give 
motion to the painted glass, and twist these seven bands into a single compound fillet of white 
light. Carrying out this idea into our contemplation of the astronomical universe it naturally 
develops itself into a very beautiful thought. 

" ' We seem to see the countless stars, each throwing out a web of light rays ; some, 
like our sun, of woven white, others of every rainbow dye. Through this vast variegated web 
flash constantly the golden shuttles of the comets, wea\'ing together, into compact perfection, 
the great and glorious universe, the " Garment of God." ' " 

These lectures were unique, and, I believe, so remain. In some of their 
details they were like an exhibition of legerdemain, except that here the lecturer 
explained, so that all could understand, how his marvellous effects were obtained. 
The biographical sketch by Professors Sellers and Leeds gives many reports of 
these lectures as extracted from the daily press, and they preserve in considerable 
detail the record of these novel, beautiful, and elaborate experiments so successful- 
ly performed, and in this record we find the anticipation of Dr. Morton's later 
more important successes. We find in this man of less than thirty years of age 
an unusual display of daring, originality, ability to impart knowledge, artistic 
temperament, thoroughness, and comprehensive grasp of details, resulting in a 
series of lectures at once accurate and popular. 

Most of these lectures were delivered during the period of 1867 to 1870, 
and they served to make Professor Morton's name well known at home and 
abroad. 

At a recent joint meeting of the Society of Chemical Industry, the Ameri- 
can Chetnical Society, the Chemists' Club and the Verein Deutscher Chemiker, 
Prof. C. F. Chandler gave an extemporaneous tribute to the memory of President 
Morton. After claiming him as his dearest and most intimate scientific friend for 
the past thirty years, and saying that he was amiable, generous, gentle, the soul 
of honor, and a most devoted husband and the best of friends, he enlarged par- 



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ticularly on his ability as a public lecturer, on account of the clear, simple, and 
incisive way he had of bringing the most intricate stibjects within the reach of 
every intelligent listener, and claimed that he compared most favorably with our 
distinguished scientific lecturers, notably Prof. Tyndall. 

In 1867 Prof. Morton was made editor of the "Journal of the Franklin 
Institute," a publication dat- 
ing back to 1826, which had 
enjoyed in the past a wide 
and favorable reputation for 
the character of its original 
papers on engineering and 
scientific subjects; but it had 
at this time almost lost its 
reputation for originality. 

Under Prof. Morton's 
editorial guidance and 
through his own contribu- 
tions this journal quickly re- 
gained the ground which had 
been lost. 

In 1868 Prof. Morton 
occupied the Chair of Chem- 
istry and Physics at the Uni- 
versity of Pennsylvania dur- 
ing the year's leave-of-absence 
granted to Prof. John F. 
Fraser; and after the return 
of Prof. Fraser, in 1869, 
the work of this depart- 
ment was divided, — a new 
Chair of Chemistry was 
created, and this was of- 
fered to and accepted by Prof. 
Morton. 

In 1869 Prof. Morton organized and conducted an expedition under the 
auspices of the United States Nautical Almanac office, to make photographs of 
the total eclipse of the sun, as observed on the 7th of August in the State of Iowa. 
The late Prof. A. M. Mayer, of Stevens Institute, was of this party. 

In connection with these eclipse observations Prof. Morton was the first to 
prove the true nature of the bright line on the sun's disk adjacent to the edge 
of the moon, seen in partial-phase eclipse photographs. 




Solar Eclipse, August 7, 



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Many of the most eminent men of the time had here fallen into error. 
Prof. Morton showed by experiments, absolutely conclusive, that this line was 
simply the result of a local redevelopment, and was therefore a photographic phe- 
nomen9n, and not an optical one, as had been declared. 

In this connection Prof. C. A. Young-, of Princeton University, writes : 

" Every one interested in astronomy remembers his most successful' organization 
of the Philadelphia photographic parties which obtained such valuable results in their work 
on the eclipse of 1869, especially in the photography of the solar prominences." 

During this period Prof. Morton wrote many papers on optics and me- 
chanics. One on the Giffard injector was written at the request of the firm then 
controlling the manufacture in this country; for the invention was considered by 
many a mechanical paradox. 

"A Scotch mechanic of considerable practical skill, who was sent to Paris by his 
English employers to report on this instrument, brought home a clear account of its form 
and operation; but, when asked to explain the philosophy of the propulsion of water by 
a steam jet into a boiler of greater pressure than the one that furnished the steam, answered 
the question as to what makes it work by the positive assertion, 'The Will o' God, nion, the 
Will o" God.' 

" Now, the ' Will o' God,' as manifested in this and in many other remarkable dis- 
coveries, found in Prof. Morton an exponent who could make clear to the most ignorant 
the laws that not only govern the universe, but also govern such minor applications of 
these laws as constitute the remarkable inventions that from time to time, in rapid succes- 
sion, are brought to public notice. 

" Before we become accustomed to the discoveries that we cannot understand, and 
cease to wonder at them on account of our familiarity with them, there is needed some- 
body who is capable of making clear to the unscientific the principles that govern them: and 
in this regard fezv have equalled Prof. Morton in his method and in his diction." 

In this quotation the italics are mine, for I was continually struck by his re- 
markable capacity in this direction, and I have many times profited by it. Finally, 
this so impressed me that in the case of any question which seemed to contain 
some element of mystery, I came to feel that could the question be placed before 
President Morton the mystery would be quickly eliminated and all fallacies ex- 
posed. 

Prof. Morton received the degree of Doctor of Philosophy from Dickerson 
College in 1869. The following year Princeton University conferred upon him 
the same degree. In 1870 Dr. Morton was tendered the presidency of the Stevens 
Institute of Technology. 

But before passing from Dr. Morton's life in Philadelphia to his life in 
Hoboken, let me quote the words of some of his friends, more particularly of the 
former period. Dr. J. Foster Flagg writes : 

" It was in the exciting days of 1861 when we first met, and I was at once im- 
pressed with the abundance of desirable attributes with which he was endowed. Our ac- 

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quaintance ripened promptly into friendship, and it was this which urged me in 1863 to favor 
most earnestly the tendering to him the Chair of Chemistry in the newly organized Philadel- 
phia Dental College. This enterprise was a matter of the utmost importance to us who 
were engaged in it, and Mr. Morton's extreme youth — he being not quite twenty-seven 
years old — was urged as an objection to the experiment of placing him in the position, 
but as the result of a trial lecture he was most cordially invited to become one of the Fac- 
ulty. 

" For six years the service he rendered became increasingly acceptable, and the 
bonds of professional association a closer and stronger tie, until at last he one day came to 
my office with the call to the Stevens Institute — and with the friendly inquiry as to what he 
should do about it. 

" I well remember, as though it were but yesterday, how my heart sank at the 
thought of the loss of him, but I also as well remember how my heart rejoiced in what 
seemed to me to be a heaven-sent opening for a glorious life-work; and so it was that 
strength was given me to urge an immediate 
visit to Hoboken and a prompt ' spying out of 
the land.' 

" And all the years since then have 
been but added ones of continued affection 
between us, and of united gratitude for the 
blessings which have been poured out upon 
his lovely work of the ' ever since.' " 



In a subsequent letter Dr. Flagg 
writes of President Morton's interest and 
work in the art of dentistry as follows : 






Henry Morion 



" It was in 1875, at the American Den- 
tal Association, that Dr. Palmer, of Syracuse, 
N. Y., continued his enunciation of his theory 
that ' failure in filling teeth was due to in- 
compatibility of filling-material with tooth- 
bone ' and that he was joined in this by 
Prof. Flagg, of Philadelphia, and soon after 
by Prof. Chase, of St. Louis. ^f'"'" " Piwtogi-nph Taken about 1S63 

" With the view to thorough discus- 
sion and experimental research in this regard it was suggested that a ' Corps ' should be 
formed consisting of three Sections, viz. : Scientific, Metallurgic, and Dental. 

" In furtherance of this organization President Morton and Prof. M. B. Snyder, 
of Philadelphia, were induced to form the Scientific Section; Messrs. Jacob B. Eckfeldt 
and Patterson Du Bois, Assayers of the Philadelphia Mint, to form the Metallurgic Sec- 
tion; while Dr. S. B. Palmer, Prof. J. Foster Flagg, and Prof. Henry S. Chase formed 
the Dental Section. 

" Into this work President Morton entered with his usual interest, enthusiasm, and 
energy; and it was from this that great comfort and support were derived by all his asso- 
ciates, for it was recognized that upon the Scientific Section rested largely the status of 
the investigation. 

" After two years of most interesting experimental and practical work, much of 
which was done, with President Morton's help, in the laboratory of Stevens Institute, a 



176 THE STEVENS INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY 

' creed ' was evolved which was so decidedly different from what was regarded as ' ac- 
cepted ' views that the technical term of ' New Departure ' was applied to it, and as such 
it has become truly historic. 

" It was from this ' Corps ' that knowledge of plastic materials for filling teeth was 
given to dentistry from a scientific standpoint, and it was the broad range of relief to 
suffering humanity which this promised that so interested President Morton." 

Mr. Theodore D. Rand writes : 

" Aly acquaintance with Dr. Morton began in boyhood, while we were schoolmates 
at the Episcopal Academy together with Bishop Potter, Bishop Coleman, Dr. J. Andrews 
Harris, Dr. Potter, Dr. Conrad, and others who later in life were distinguished. 

" At school and at home Morton was an unusually good boy, and was universally 
loved and respected, while his standing in his classes was excellent. 

" Very early in his life he showed great mechanical talent. In the house of his 
father, Rev. Henry J. Morton, D.D., he had quite a workshop from which he turned out 
many creditable things, among others an accurate and sensitive chemical balance. Boy- 
like, he wanted a cannon, and Morton, Hartley Merrick, a son of Samuel Vaughan Merrick, 
and myself undertook to make one ; but Morton did most of the work, making the pattern, 
a fan blower, flasks for the mold, and finally the carriage. The day of the casting was an 
eventful one with us. In the back yard of 140 South Ninth St., Philadelphia, where I was 
living, a furnace was contrived, and, urged by a blast from the fan, several pounds of 
copper and tin were melted and successfully poured. Merrick, whose father had a large 
machine-works, finished and l)ored the cannon, which was fired off with great apprecia- 
tion. 

" Early in his life Dr. Morton taught chemistry in the Episcopal Academy, and 
I well remember the great skill and care he exercised in designing a new chemical lab- 
oratory for the Academy. 

" After his removal to Hoboken I saw little of him, though corresponding with 
him and visiting him occasionally. 

" For many years I presume I was his most intimate friend. He was always the 
same, amiable and wise. I cannot recall that I ever knew him to lose his temper or to 
speak harshly or unkindly." 

The cannon referred to by Mr. Rand is still, in his possession. He has 
offered it to Stevens Institnte, and this offer has been accepted. 

Prof. Elihn Thomson, the eminent scientist, inventor, and electrical engi- 
neer, writes : 

" A little less than forty years ago I listened with rapt attention, as a boy of eleven, 
to a scientific lecture, the first in my experience. It was given by a young lecturer, Mr. 
Henry Morton, to an audience of apprentices in Philadelphia, and was copiously illustrated 
by instructive experiments well calculated to appeal to the youthful mind. Years after 
that I became acquainted with Dr. Morton when he was secretary of the Franklin Institute, 
where he was held in the highest esteem. He was a frequent lecturer on scientific subjects 
to delighted audiences. His manner was uniformly courteous and kindly. His imagina- 
tion and poetic sense, his enthusiasm, his skill in illustration, together with his easy com- 
mand of language, filled his audience-rooms. 

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saw him infrequently, but remember reading his contributions to the early literature of 
dynamo-electric machinery and electric lighting, a remarkably clear and comprehensive 
set of articles. As the head of Stevens Institute he found his life-v^rork. Of this period 
others are better qualified than I to speak. Only occasionally have we met in the later 
years, and letters to and fro at intervals, touching upon subjects of mutual interest, have 
in a sense supplemented these occasional meetings. I can say that my regard and esteem 
for Dr. Morton increased and deepened as the years went by. When we last met, early 
this year, there was no intimation of suffering or of the approach of a crisis in his life. 

"As a man he was broad in his views and sympathies, versatile in talents, tolerant 
in his attitude, a true gentleman of high ideals. 

"In answer to a solicitous communication on the subject of his health, he wrote 
me on April 12. The letter is in an autograph which discloses no dread or painful appre- 
hensions." 

To form the link between the two distinct periods in Prof. Morton's career, 
a few words written by Dr. Coleman Sellers may well be given, for Dr. Sellers's in- 
timacy with Prof. Morton was never interrupted, and some years after the Institute 
was opened he took up the professorship of engineering practice and so again 
came closely in contact with Prof. Morton's work. Dr. Sellers writes : 

" My long intimacy with President Morton, extending over more than forty years, 
has been more than that of friendship ; his death is to me and to mine the loss of a beloved 
son, and the shock is as great. I have watched his mental growth from youth to ripe ma- 
turity, and our lives have been closely linked one to the other with no break in continuity 
during the whole time. 

"As a sincere friend of the great school over which he so long presided, I recog- 
nize fully all he has done for its betterment and for the cause of engineering in the broad- 
est sense of the term." 

Dr. Morton accepted the presidency of the Stevens Institute, and then be- 
gan a new and important step in his career and a distinct departure in technical 
education, for he and the Trustees decided to confine the Institute work exclusive- 
ly to the teaching of mechanical engineering, and in doing so to make the effort 
efficiently to combine theory and practice. 

When President Morton took up his new duties he recognized that his first 
working plan must be elastic ; only to be put into more permanent form as the re- 
sult of experience. From first to last he was ready to listen to suggestions from 
those who by experience were capable of giving intelligent advice. 

As the Institute increased in years, he always had an open ear for sugges- 
tions from the Alumni, and especially those who had proved in their own careers 
the value of the training they had received. As might be expected from a man of 
President Morton's practical ability, the effort was always made to maintain and 
strengthen in the course the harmony between theory and practice. It may be 
fairly claimed that in the records so far made by the Alumni the value of this 
feature of the course has been well demonstrated. President Morton believed that 
the students should be able to perform the mechanical and practical work of the 



178 THE STEVENS INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY 

course, and also thoroughly to understand the scientific reasons for this perform- 
ance. In teaching scientific truths he was also careful to see that the practical ap- 
plication of these truths should be fully kept in mind. Although pre-eminent in 
the laboratory and on the platform, he was not a schoolman, but a practical man 
of affairs. 

Almost at once upon taking up his work at Hoboken he was called in by 
prominent lawyers in New York to assist them in patent litigation. And here his 
practical and far-reaching grasp of scientific truths enabled him immediately to 
take a prominent position. Not only was he able to arrive at the truth by reason 
of his capacity in research and his powers for logical deductions therefrom, which 
amounted to genius, but he was able to place convincingly before the courts the 
results of his investigations. He never had to hesitate if there was a fallacy to be 
exposed. 

But I can here best quote the words of some of those who in this line placed 
their dependence upon him. Mr. Frederic H. Betts says: 

" I had the pleasure of becoming acquainted with him as an expert in patent cases 
at a very early stage of the practice of my profession, and he testified a few days prior 
to his death in a case in which I was counsel, and which, I beheve, was the last case in 
which he appeared. It is difficult to say too much in praise of Dr. Morton's resourceful- 
ness and efficiency as an expert in patent cases. The range and variety of his knowledge 
was great. He had it in complete command. His readiness in meeting unexpected con- 
tingencies and his forcibleness in stating his position in a patent contest were remarkable. 
I knew of no one who was his superior in those regards. 

" I feel a sense of personal loss in the death of Dr. Morton ; he was not only my 
coadjutor in many difficult legal contests, but I entertained for him a Avarm feeling of re- 
gard for his engaging personal qualities." 

In this same connection Mr. William A. Jenner writes : 

" My intimate acquaintance with Dr. Morton began in 1884 and arose from our 
taking long walks over the Berkshire Hills in the summer of that year. Since then we 
were quite frequently associated on the same side in patent cases, he as expert and I 
as counsel, and I also met him quite often on social occasions. One could not be very long 
in his company without being impressed by the variety and accuracy of his knowledge 
and his power of lucid explanation of intricate problems. Tliis faculty of his was, of 
course, more specially manifest on social occasions which did not place any limit upon 
either the topics of discussion or the mode of treatment. In his handhng, as expert, of 
questions arising under patents for inventions, those qualities of mind and his varied know- 
ledge, and his power of lucid explanation to which I have above alluded, were also 
displayed, and they were supplemented by extraordinary acuteness in making accurate dis- 
tinctions. The province of an expert in patent cases may be briefly described as compris- 
ing the functions of advising counsel in respect to the relations of the inventions under 
examination to the state of the art in the particular field of litigation, and, by answering 
questions propounded to him, to expound for the instruction of the court those relations. 
The latter especially make it necessary to express opinion, and to fortify these opinions 
by intelligent and valid reasons. In this work he was particularly happy. He was accus- 



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tomed to fortify his reasons by illustrations often taken from familiar subjects as well as 
by laws, phenomena, and happenings in the world of science which were often curious 
and of refreshing novelty, but which seemed to be always apposite, and one often wondered 
where he got them and how he could remember them. These qualities of his mind always 
made his depositions as interesting as such things can be. He never, at least in my ex- 
perience, took a position which he did not conscientiously believe in. He was not, of course, 
always right, but he intended to be always right, and he frankly admitted the difficulties 
which confronted the positions taken by him and left the matter where it belonged, to the 
judgment of the court. 

" In litigations over patents there is generally much to be said on both sides, and 
arguments often nearly balance. Under such circumstances he deemed it to be the duty 
of an expert, as indeed it is, to explain the matter, to suggest the considerations which 
weigh on either side of the question, and to afford a clue for either reconciling or decid- 
ing between conflicting arguments. 

" I should say that the qualities mentioned above characterized Dr. Morton's labors 
as an expert. 

" I might also mention his enthusiastic disposition. That disposition made him 
a most welcome coadjutor to counsel in a difficult case, his buoyancy of spirit was conta- 
gious ; counsel felt refreshed by talking with him and hearing him talk, and a conversation 
or session with him increased one's confidence or hopefulness." 

Mr. Livingston Gifford, writing on the same feature of President Morton's 
work, says: 

" President Morton's familiarity with both the theoretical and the practical side 
of the arts, combined with his facility of clear and concise expression, and his perception of 
the decisive points of a controversy, made him easily the foremost expert witness of his 
time. It is safe to say that a greater number of decisions have been based on his testi- 
mony than on that of any other expert. For more than a score of years past he was 
retained in nearly all of the great litigations involving intricate questions for the physi- 
cist, the chemist, or the electrician. 

" Whether the tribunal were the Federal or State courts of this country, the Ca- 
nadian courts, or the Patent Office, his deposition was received with universal welcome by 
the judges, who knew that they would find in it a presentation of the salient facts in a man- 
ner most helpful to them in reaching a decision. 

But counsel who were associated with President Morton will always remember 
him as at his best in the consultation-room. There his conservatism and common sense were 
invaluable in determining upon the policy to govern litigations, and his genial disposition 
afforded so much pleasure to his associates that we look backward at the times spent in 
consultation with him as among the most enjoyable hours of our professional careers." 

President Adolf Kuttroff, of the firm of Kuttroff, Pickhardt, & Co. (Dye- 
stuffs), says: 

" More than twenty-five years ago President Morton was chosen as the leading 
American expert in the chemistry of coal-tar coloring matters by the Badische Anilin & 
Soda Fabrik, which is the world's largest manufacturer in that branch of the science. From 
that time to the present we have had constant need of his aid in this most difficult art. 
Observation of his work from the standpoint of a client during all of these years resulted 



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in ever-increasing admiration for the brilliancy of a mind which qualified him to cope 
successfully, not merely with the best experts of this country, but with the best that could 
be brought against him from the very home of the art itself, Germany. 

" If the countless chemical individuals of this art were better known to the general 
public, the position which President Morton filled in it would rank among the highest of 
the many honors with which his life has been crowned." 

In the biographical sketch by Professors Sellers and Leeds, the record of 
President Morton's work as a patent expert concludes as follows : 

" His printed testimony in these cases, if collected in a separate form, would equal 
in volume a set of Scott's novels, and much of it is very interesting reading to any one 
conversant with the subjects involved, and occasionally, as a specimen of witty dialogue, 
has proved entertaining to a general reader. It is often like a Socratic dialogue, only that 
the answerer, rather than the questioner, generally proves his point. It is full of passages 
which are models of clear, concise, and expressive diction." 

President Morton Avas for many years the scientific adviser of the New 
York Board of Fire Underwriters. This board recently took action in reference 
to the loss it had sustained " by the death of our dearly beloved scientific adviser, 
Dr. Henry Morton." After the record at length of Dr. Morton's services, the 
following appears on the minutes of the meeting: 

" That in the death of Dr. Henry Morton this board sustains an irreparable loss. He 
was a man of profound knowledge and withal of great modesty; a generous, unselfish citi- 
zen, contributing liberally of his time and means to the advancement of education, and by 
his example and precept, his intelligent researches, and practical application of his discov- 
eries, has left as his best monument his beneficial influence upon the young men of his 
day and generation, and his contributions to the sciences in which he instructed others and 
of which he was himself a master." 

Although President Morton prepared thoroughly for his work he was, by 
reason of his systematic methods and his unusual powers of absorption, able to 
do much of this expert work in addition to his work at Stevens Institute ; and it 
was through the income derived from his expert work that he was always able to 
supply at the critical moment the financial needs of " Stevens." The Institute had 
been liberally endowed for what its founder had in mind; but the wise direction 
and management of President Morton increased its classes and widened its scope 
so that the endowment was found to be insufficient to meet the constantly in- 
creasing demands. 

In 1 88 1 President Morton presented to the Institute a new workshop, fitted 
up at an expense of $10,500. 

In 1883 he equipped with apparatus the new Department of Applied Elec- 
tricity at a cost of $2,500, and for several years thereafter he stipplied the funds 
for the maintenance of this department. 

In 1888 he made the first instalment of $10,000 toward the endowment of 
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In 1892 he added $20,000 to this endowment. 

In 1897, in connection with the Institute's Twenty-Fifth Anniversary Cele- 
bration, he placed in the hands of the Trustees, to be applied to the so-called Alum- 
ni Building Fund, stocks which shortly thereafter sold for $24,000. 

In 1900 and 1901, in connection with the building of the Carnegie Labora- 
tory, he erected at a cost of $15,000 a new boiler-house to supply the entire group 
of Institute buildings. 

In the spring of 1901 he placed in the hands of the Trustees $50,000 in 
bonds, as a special endowment fund. 

From his letter to the Trustees placing this last gift in their hands, it is 
evident that he fully realized how insecure was his hold on life. 

In connection with their acceptance the Trustees passed the following reso- 
lution : 



"Whereas, President Henry Morton has donated to the Stevens Institute of Tech- 
nology $50,000 in bonds to be united with his previous donation of $30,000 for the Chair 
of Engineering- Practice now superseded, in order to create an endowment fund for the 
maintenance of the chemical building soon to be erected from funds subscribed by himself 
and the Alumni; or, in case of other provision being made for the maintenance of this 
building, the income of the fund to be applied as need may arise for pensioning such re- 
tiring members of the Faculty of Stevens Institute as may, by reason of age or sickness, 
become incapacitated while in the employment of said Institute : 

" Resolved, That the Trustees accept this additional donation in accordance with 
the terms set out in President Morton's letter of June 6, 190 1, which is made part of the 
record of this meeting; 

"Resolved, That the combined fund be known as the Henry Morton Endowment 
Fund; 

" Resolved, That the Trustees hereby express to President Morton their keen ap- 
preciation of his continued generosity to the Institute, the repeated expressions of which 
aggregate a sum of no less than $145,000, whereby the Institute has been enabled to op- 
portunely broaden its field of usefulness and meet developed requirements for which its 
original endowment proved inadequate; and further 

" Resolved, That the Trustees avail themselves of this opportunity to record their 
recognition of the foresight and wise initiative exercised by President Morton in shap- 
ing the original character of the Institute, and their grateful sense of his able and de- 
voted administration of its affairs to which, more than to any other source, the Trustees 
attribute its success." 

With this, his last gift. President Morton had given back to the Institute, 
out of his earnings as an expert, an amount about equal to the total salary received 
by him as President. 

With the work thus far referred to, his time was almost entirely employed, 
and therefore he found opportunity for only occasional contributions to the cur- 
rent technical journals, but what he wrote was opportune and of distinct value. 

From 1873 to 1876 he wrote a series of notable papers on the phenomena 



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of fluorescence, which appeared in the London Chemical News, the Moniteur 
Scicntifiqiie, and the American Chemist. 

Later he wrote a series of papers on the " Fluorescent and Absorption 
Spectra of the Uranium Salts " for the same journals. 

He wrote the articles on "Fluorescence" for Johnson's American Encyclo- 
pedia, editions of 1878 and 1896, and the article on " Electricity " in the edition 
of 1878. 

Articles on " The Maximum Efficiency of Galvanic Batteries," " The Pneu- 
matic Pyrometer," " Conservation of Energy," " Gaseous Compounds of Iron and 
Metal with Carbonic Oxide," " Roentgen Rays," and "Photometry" were published 
in Cassicr's Magazine, the Stevens Institute Indicator, Engineering (London) and 
elsewhere. 

In 1899, when discussions on liquid air came before the public, he published 
several articles exposing the fallacies in connection therewith in the Scientific 
American, the Stevens Institute Indicator, Cassicr's Magazine, and elsewhere. 

The following may also be mentioned : 

" Some Recent Developments in Artificial Illumination," American Journal of Gas 
Lighting, L, 139. 

" Storage of Electricity," Harper's Monthly Magazine, 1882, LXIX, 84. 

" Electricity in Lighting," Scribner's Monthly Magazine, 1889, VI, 176. Also in- 
cluded in " Electricity in Daily Life." 

" Engineering Fallacies," Cassicr's Magazine, VII, 200, 487, VIII, 428. Also Ste- 
vens Institute Indicator, XI, 273, XII, 125. 

" Elimination of Antimony from the Human System," American Journal of Medi- 
cal Science, 1879, p. 89; Moniteur ScicntiUque, XXI, 112. 

" Notes on the Recent Progress of Applied Science," North American Review, 1879, 
p. 526. 

"Measurements of an Edison Horseshoe Lamp," Chemical News, XLI, 109; Scien- 
tific American, XLII, 241; Van Nost rand's Magazine, XXIII, 1-16; The Philosophical Mag- 
azine (London), X, 21. 

" Dynamo-Electric Machines," Van Nostrand's Magazine, XXII, 397, 441 ; Report 
of the United States Light House Board, 1879. 

" The Gary Motor," Journal of the Franklin Institute, 1879, LXXII, 337. 

" The True Relations of the Substances which Have Been Named Anthrapurpurine 
and Flavopurpurine," Chemical News, XXXIX, 225; Moniteur Scientifique, XXI, 872; 
Journal of the American Chemical Society, I, 186. 

" Water Gas from Coal ; Its Calorific Energy," American Journal of Gas Lighting, 
XXXII, 99. 

"American Competition," Engineering (London),, LXIX, 12. Written at request 
of editor. 

President Morton found time for some study in quite a different direction, 
— Biblical criticism. This was one of the subjects to which he turned for change 
and rest. His studies and investigations were here again applied to the benefit of 
others in clearing away the mists of prejudice and bigotry; his occasional writ- 



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ings here serving to strengthen the faith of those who were not able to beheve in 
the verbal inspiration of the Bible, but were not, on the other hand, willing to 
reject its message. With his scientific attainments, his logical mind, and his gen- 
ius for analysis he was peculiarly fitted to meet the shallow criticisms of those 
who held that the advance in scientific knowledge had removed all basis for faith 
in Bible truths ; while on the other hand his uncompromising honesty made him 
unsparing of those who by their bigotry had done so much to make the acceptance 
of these truths difficult if not impossible. 

Like Huxley, he followed without hesitation or regret wherever truth led; 
but unlike Huxley, with the heart and mind of a poet, he felt the truths which can- 
not be mathematically demonstrated. Huxley's investigations, while teaching him 
to feel more and more the incompleteness and unsatisfactoriness of this life, also 
led him to assert the impossibility of setting up any definite theories as to a 
future life. Morton's investigations served to clear away the doubts which 
had been suggested to his mind by ignorant and narrow interpretations of 
the Bible. 

While a student at the Institute, and since I have been practising my pro- 
fession, I was privileged to go to President Morton for help when groping for the 
truth. I never applied to him in vain. When some practical matter was involved 
with which he was not familiar, his cross-examination soon gave him the necessary 
insight into the problem and enabled him to clear away my difficulty or to put me 
into a position to clear it away for myself. So in discussing with him questions of 
the Higher Criticism my reason was satisfied when I was led to appreciate more 
and more fully that there is something- to be finally reckoned with far above and 
beyond the human reason. 

In spite of his modesty he asserted his beliefs when circumstances seemed 
to demand. The following words from Bishop Henry C. Potter show how these 
declarations for the truth had their effect. President Morton and the Bishop 
had known each other since the school days in Philadelphia, but of late years there 
had been no opportunity for intimacy. 

" I shall never think of him without recalling the occasions, which occurred more 
than once in my history, when in some critical moment he wrote to me expressing his ap- 
preciation of some utterance of mine ; or some position which I had taken which involved 
a departure from old conventions and the recognition of new truths, or a new vision of 
the truth, in the realm both of morals and of theology. Such a man was a benediction to 
his time; and his loss is not alone a loss to the Stevens Institute, but to all that is best in 
our modern life." 

As an example of his writings on the Higher Criticism it may be recorded 
that in 1897, at the request of the editor of the " Bibliotheca Sacra," he wrote an ar- 
ticle entitled " The Cosmogony of Genesis and its Reconcilers," which appeared 
in the April and July numbers of that quarterly magazine for 1897. Writing in 



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the " Expositor," June, 1898, the Rev. Professor S. R. Driver, D.D., of Oxford, 
refers to this article of President Morton's as follows : 

" But since 1888 times have changed. In the ' Bibliotheca Sacra ' for April and July, 
1897, there appeared two articles by President Henry Morton, of the Stevens Institute of 
Technology, Hoboken, N. J., in which the whole subject was reopened, and the arguments 
of the 'Reconcilers' were subjected to a searching examination, with the result that, in 
substance, precisely the same conclusions are arrived at which were reached by me twelve 
years ago in the ' Expositor.' To this indorsement of my conclusions by a professed man 
of science, who is plainly also well able to appreciate the theological aspects of the ques- 
tion, T naturally attach no small weight. President Morton examines in detail, first the 
reconciliation of Prof. Guyot (pp. 11-39 of the reprint), then more briefly — for this 
theory is in many respects the same as that of Prof. Guyot, so that there is no necessity 
for repeating the same criticisms — that of Prof. Dana (pp. 39-43), then (pp. 43-50) that 
of Sir J. W. Dawson, and lastly that of Mr. Gladstone (pp. 50-57) ; his own view, in stat- 
ing which he refers with warm approval to Prof. Henry Drummond's paper in the ' Nine- 
teenth Century ' for February, 1886, follows, pp. 57-62. I cannot well abridge the trench- 
ant and detailed criticisms by which President Morton exposes, one after another, the un- 
reality of all these schemes of reconciliation; but, speaking generally, the rock upon which 
each in turn is wrecked is the extreme and incredible violence done to the text of Gen- 
esis for the purpose of forcing its statements into harmony with what is taught by science. 

" Prof. Guyot, for instance, finds in the division of the waters below the ' expanse ' 
from those above it (v. 7), the separation of the 'visible lower starry world' from the 
primitive luminous nebula; and in the appearance of the dry land above the water (v. 9) 
the whole history of the earth according to the nebular hypothesis, including a stage in 
which it was a self-luminous sun ! How Prof. Dana understands the apparently simple 
terms ' earth ' and ' water ' has been stated already. Sir J. W.. Dawson, if he treats the 
text of Genesis with less violence than this, nevertheless makes many other wholly un- 
authorized assumptions: he harmonizes the work of the Third Day, for instance, not with 
the history of the earth as attested actually by geology, but with an assumed history, which 
assigns to plants and trees a place in better conformity with the narrative of Genesis 
(p. 47 /.). President Morton expresses frequently his astonishment at these and the other 
extraordinary suppositions, by means of which the cosmogony of Genesis is 'reconciled ' 
with the cosmogony of science; and at the singular paradoxes to which even able men 
will commit themselves when a given opinion has at all hazards to be maintained. His 
general conclusion is stated in these words : 

' " In reading the works of all these writers, the impression is the same. The more we 
admire their ability, learning, and pious enthusiasm, the more clearly do we see that they have 
undertaken an impossible task, and that their failures are in no way due to any deficiencies on 
their part, but only to the insoluble character of the problem they have set themselves to 
elucidate.' 

"And he considers (pp. 57-62) the true solution of the problems presented by the cos- 
mogony of Genesis to have been found by those scholars who read it in the light of the 
age in which it was written, and who, while not forgetful of the spiritual teachings of 
which it is made the vehicle, interpret it, on its material side, in accordance with the place 
which it holds in the history of Semitic cosmological speculation." 

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deep interest in archaeological investigations in the East. His record in this con- 
nection can be best told by some of those who were associated with him in this 
work. Dr. Willis Hatfield Hazard writes: 

" The most significant aspect of President Morton's intellectual power was its ver- 
satility. The capacity to devote himself to wholly dissimilar subjects with equal percep- 
tion and equal sympathy secured for him that poise, many-sidedness, breadth, and inherent 
dignity of mind that marked him as one of the very rarest of men. This genius for ap- 
preciating diverse intellectual interests not only contributed an irresistible charm to his 
personality in every social relationship, but was of supreme use in enabling him to perform 
that remarkable measure of good works which has been universally lauded by all who 
knew him. 

" The most striking illustration of this quality was President Morton's interest in 
archaeology and theology. These lines of work early drew his attention. While still an 
undergraduate at the University of Pennsylvania he made the famous translation of the 
Rosetta Stone which has since been rated as among the rarest books published during the 
century. The illustrations that enliven the text were wholly young Morton's work, and 
proved a strong artistic inheritance from his father, who had an uncommon talent for 
spirited and graceful drawing. This volume was in large part an original contribution to 
the infant science of Egyptology, being the first complete English translation of the Greek, 
demotic, and hieratic scripts. It was the interest thus early aroused that paved the way 
in later years for a delight in archseology most unusual on the part of a physicist. 

" The practical turn came through the allied science of BibHcal Criticism. Presi- 
dent Morton was one of the first laymen to appreciate the significance of the new learn- 
ing. Ten or twelve years ago the scientific difficulties with current interpretations of 
the Bible and Christianity received their first satisfactory solution to his mind through the 
explanations afforded by the Higher Criticism. With the singular mental alertness and 
sympathy that marked his nature he grasped at once the value of these researches. His 
scientific mind was charmed with the clear reasoning and the splendid conquests of the 
secrets of the past that were being made by the new literary and critical studies. For 
him they brushed away hitherto insoluble problems as mist before the sun. 

" This sense of obHgation to the higher critics led to his becoming their frequent 
and valiant champion in the public press. The extraordinary spectacle was presented of 
a physical scientist writing articles for journals, reviews, magazines, and newspapers on 
theological and archaeological questions as a protagonist for the highest technical scholar- 
ship in opposition to the almost universal disdain, not to say contempt, in which the reli- 
gious world held these new theories. 

"A great change has taken place in educated thought in the decade during which 
President Morton wrote for the New York ' Tribune,' ' The Churchman,' ' The Outlook,' 
' Bibliotheca Sacra,' ' The Church Eclectic,' and a host of similar publications. There can 
be no doubt that this change of public opinion, which is still in progress, has been materially 
aided by President Morton's keen logic, sound scientific learning, and philosophical acumen. 

" One result of these studies in Biblical science, during the course of which a theo- 
logical library of large proportions was collected and read, was an appreciation of the im- 
portance of archaeological work in the East. When the present American expedition for 
excavating Ur of the Chaldees and other Babylonian sites was organized some eighteen 
months ago, it found a ready friend in President Morton. His interest in the work was 
deep and vigorous as soon as he was acquainted with its purpose. After the expedition was. 
fully organized, the money yet unsubscribed to the sum which the committee thought requi- 



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site to carry on the work for one year was guaranteed by Dr. Morton personally. This 
generous act not only completed the official equipment of the expedition, and enabled its 
director to start for Constantinople, but it put Dr. Morton virtually at the head of the or- 
ganization, and identified his name permanently with Oriental archaeology as among its 
most enlightened supporters. His sagaciousness and practical advice in the conduct of the 
expedition's affairs was of the highest value — indeed, under the circumstances, his father- 
ing care to the day of his death was an indispensable element in its ultimate success. As 
with many other public interests, the loss to archaeology of this man, who was one of its 
most intelligent patrons, will be irreparable. 

" To illustrate the nature of Dr. Morton's interest in the Ur expedition, it is only 
necessary to refer to the now famous archaeological dinner that he gave last December at 
the Waldorf-Astoria, New York. Although far from well, Dr. Morton devoted himself for 
several days to the designing and constructing of a number of table ornaments. These ex- 
hibited the brilliancy and ingenuity of his mind in precisely the same way that the lectures 
in the Philadelphia Academy of Music had done years before. They embodied that sense 
of congruousness and proportion and fitness in detail that seemed part of the man's mental 
feeling, and that had been vital in his lifelong success as a popularizer of science. The 
ornaments were miniature reproductions of objects of interest to Orientalists and arch- 
seologists. and were prepared with consummate taste and arranged with exceeding clever- 
ness. The obvious meaning of the whole scheme was the surprise and delight of the 
distinguished guests. Thanks largely to these admirable eft'orts, the dinner proved the most 
original and characteristic social gathering of the year. 

" The labors of such a man in the varied fields of thought that interested him could 
not help being of notable value. As a matter of fact, few of his peers have exercised a 
deeper influence on those with whom they came in contact, whether personally or otherwise. 
His monument is far larger than even the institution whose fortunes he guided with such sig- 
nal ability. It is built into the lives of hundreds of men who had the great privilege of prof- 
iting by his companionship and example." 

Dr. James B. Wassoii writes thus of President Morton's interest in archae- 
ological subjects : 

" From his earliest manhood Dr. Morton was not merely an enthusiastic student of 
Oriental languages and of archaeology, but an original investigator in these great depart- 
ments of history. I say history advisedly, because they were so regarded by him. He held 
that the language and the buried remains of an ancient race furnished the only trustwor- 
thy data for understanding it. Yet he realized how easy it was to misinterpret and misun- 
derstand these records of the buried past. His enthusiasm as a student and investigator 
was always held in restraint by his cautious scientific spirit. 

" In spite of his brilliant achievements in so many lines of original investigation, 
Dr. Morton had no pride of opinion. With him truth was supreme, and the words of St. 
Paul, ' Prove all things ; hold fast that which is good,' inspired and guided him in every 
act of his life. 

" Another marked characteristic that distinguished him was his painstaking thor- 
oughness. I recall an incident of the archaeological dinner which he gave last winter at the 
Waldorf-Astoria, that illustrated this trait in his character. He had written the names of 
the guests on the dinner cards in illuminated hieroglyphics, which to some of us — myself 
included — was an unknown tongue. I would therefore have taken my name on the card 
for what it purported to be in complete good faith. But so great was his passion for accu- 



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racy that he called my attention to one or two very slight imperfections in the transcrip- 
tion, due to hurry. He could not endure the thought of even seeming to take advantage of 
my ignorance in a trivial matter like this. It was in such a spirit of absolute and loyal de- 
votion to truth that he did all his work. ' Ye shall know the truth, and the truth shall make 
you free ' always seemed to him the noblest and most inspiring utterance of the Master 
whom he served with such unostentatious devotion through all the years of his life." 

Dr. Cyrus Adler, Librarian of the Smithsonian Listitution, writes : 

" In the midst of a busy life, devoted to the things of to-day, Dr. Morton found 
time to remember the days of old, the peoples of Egypt and Babylon. As a young man, a 




The Living Hand on the Screen^ Shown during the Course of a Lecture 
Delivered by Henry Morton at the Academy of Music, 
New York, February 3, 1871 



student at the University of Pennsylvania, and a member of a committee of three of its 
famous literary society, the Philomathean, he assisted in the preparation of a translation 
of the Rosetta Stone, doing much of it himself, and the hieroglyphic part altogether. He 
had immediate charge of its publication by a lithographic process. The volume had two 
editions, and is one of the most noteworthy publications ever issued by students in the United 
States. 

" More than forty years after this first show of interest in Egypt, Dr. Morton came 
forward as an earnest advocate and ready helper of the proposed expedition to Ur of the 
Chaldees in Babylonia. He was one of the executive committee, and up to the present the 



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most generous contributor to its funds. I met him a number of times on the committee in 
connection with this work and was impressed with his enthusiasm for its objects, his know- 
ledge of the details required in their execution, and his willingness to sacrifice his time and 
his means so that another buried city of ancient Babylon might be made known to men." 

President Morton had been desirous for a year or two of submitting himself 
to an operation in the hope of obtaining rehef from constant pain and weariness. 
But as long as Mrs. Morton was alive, and, as an invalid, demanded his care, 
and while matters in connection with the building and endowment of the Carnegie 
Laboratory required his personal attention, he refused to risk his life in the attempt 
to secure this relief. After Mrs. Morton's death and the completion of the Carnegie 
Laboratory, he then felt warranted in taking this risk. But he was concerned 
about the inability of the director of the Ur expedition to obtain a firman from the 
Porte authorizing the work of excavation. This had been deferred month after 
month. It was therefore a great comfort to him when in the hospital, a few days 
before his death, he received a cable message announcing the fact that the firman 
had been granted. For fear that the work might still ■ further be delayed by lack 
of means, he sat up in bed, weak as he was, and drew his check for an amount 
to cover immediate necessities. 

As President Morton felt his physical infirmity gaining on him, he became 
more and more anxious that the Carnegie Laboratory of Engineering should be fit- 
tingly dedicated, and that Mr. Carnegie himself should be present at the exercises. 
This matter was constantly on his mind for many months. 

In anticipation of the event he designed a number of novel features for the 
banquet table,^ including a perfect facsimile of a modern blast furnace which, Avhen 
" tapped," yielded punch ; a Bessemer converter which during the " blow " gave out 
flames, but when reversed produced cakes ; an open-hearth furnace which yielded 
fried oysters. Items of the menu were contained in ingot-molds, ladles, etc. 

The bread was molded in the form of railroad spikes, as a reminder that 
this was one of the inventions of Robert L. Stevens. President Morton also con- 
ceived the idea of finding and verifying a piece of the first T-rail ever laid, another 
of Robert L. Stevens's inventions. This he succeeded in doing, and under his 
careful supervision a silver box was prepared to receive this T-rail sample for pre- 
sentation to Mr. Carnegie.' 

After a number of disappointments President Morton succeeded in making 
all the arrangements for the dedication, including the attendance of Mr. Carnegie. 
On the evening of February 6, 1902, Mr. Carnegie presented to the Trustees the 
building bearing his name, and President Morton, on behalf of the Alumni Asso- 
ciation, presented to Mr. Carnegie the T-rail in its beautiful casket. 

The result of the evening's exercises was to demonstrate anew President 
Morton's versatility; while the successful issue of the novel features was neces- 

1 See ante, p. 60. ^ For description of this box see ante, p. 57 



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sarily the outcome of careful and artistic supervision, the address by President 
Morton was graceful, witty, and delightful, and served to draw from Mr. Car- 
negie a spontaneous response of the happiest character. 

The record of the exercises and the events leading up thereto were re- 
printed from the " Indicator," enriched with appropriate illustrations, and the final 
directions for the binding of a special copy for presentation to Mr. Carnegie were 
given by President Morton in the hospital, a few days before his death. 

So on his death-bed he provided for the work still remaining to be done. 

Unfortunately the sense of relief so obtained served to confirm him in the 
belief that his work was done, and that he was free to go to join those who had 
gone before. This led him to look bravely forward to the beyond rather than to 
struggle to remain. In answer to our remonstrances he would smile and say he 
was prepared to go or stay. But this very readiness to go made it hard to detain 
him. 

But there was a less serious side to Dr. Morton's life. For recreation he 
wrote verses, and sometimes applied his ability with the pencil and brush in the 
illustration and illumination of these productions. 

Of one phase of this lighter side of his life, his friend, Thos. B. Craig, 
the artist, has this to say : 

" Dr. Morton had that in his nature which, if he had devoted his life to the pur- 
suit of art, would have placed him in the foremost rank of the profession. 

"His eye for form and color, his keen enjoyment from an artist's standpoint, united 
with a true understanding of composition, were gifts such as few enjoy. 

" His work on the illustrations in connection with the text of the Rosetta Stone vol- 
ume, and in various other things which I have had the pleasure of seeing and discussing 
with him, often caused me to think that the world of art had lost a bright star. 

" His judgment of pictures on exhibition was that of one who looked into both sub- 
ject and composition from an artist's point of view, and that of no narrow kind. 

" Together we have visited most of the important exhibitions held during the past 
dozen years, and his remarks on the drawing, qualities of color, and execution of the pic- 
tures of various schools of art, were as instructive as they were interesting. There was 
always that quiet vein of humor, well known to his intimate friends, which made him a 
delightful companion in such jaunts. In a life so full of many interests his love of art 
never flagged. 

" The last evening I spent at his home, his water-colors and brushes were before 
him on his table. He had been working on some designs. We find him thus to the very 
last doing something to gratify his love of art." 

In the same connection Mr. George H. McCord, the artist, writes : 

" I cannot speak with too great warmth of Dr. Morton's appreciation and love of 
art; his knowledge in this direction was almost unlimited, and was based upon an intelli- 
gent discrimination. He found time, in the midst of arduous study and research in mat- 
ters pertaining to electrical and mechanical engineering and archaeology, to keep in touch 
with artists of reputation and their work. 



I90 THE STEVENS INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY 

" All ' brethren of the brush ' were welcome visitors in his beautiful home, and par- 
ticipated frequently in the delightful hospitality extended by himself and Mrs. Morton." 

It yet remains to speak of President Morton as a man of letters, and here 
his friend, Mr. Thomas A. Janvier, the writer, may be quoted : 

" In my twenty years' friendship with Dr. Morton I saw many of his many sides, 
and in all of them there were both edification and charm. But oftenest — because of his 
keenly sympathetic intuitions which made him adapt himself to the mental capacities, and 
even to the mental incapacities, of his friends — our talks were of literary matters, and of 
his own lighter activities (as they were by contrast with the varied very serious activities 
of his highly useful life) in literary ways. 

" His habit, in common with many hard thinkers, was to seek mental relaxation in 
story-reading: a little laughing at his own liking for vivid fiction; but rarely failing to make 
his excursions into romance of value to others by a running fire of commentary in which 
his wit and his critical acuteness had full play. As a critic he was admirable : precisely be- 
cause he had high literary standards, and because he lived up to those standards in his own 
literary work. In literature, as in science, he got his results, by direct experiment ; and the 
soundness of his knowledge and his ability to apply it were shown in the strength and 
clearness of his prose, and still more markedly in his polished, smoothly-flowing verse. 
With him poetry was a natural form of expression. As was to be expected from one of 
his kindly temperament and lively humor, he was pecuHarly happy in his verses of occa- 
sion. But he sounded also a deeper note. In such poems as ' The Discontented Island ' — a 
most dehcate fantasy, treated with serious purpose and a great tenderness — he dealt with 
the deep principles of human nature ; and his work of this order, it is interesting to observe, 
was informed by an imaginative quality that, in a way, was a by-product of the powerful 
imagination which was a necessary part of his equipment as a creative scientist. 

" It is to be regretted that so few of his poems have been published. For himself, 
he was content with the agreeable recreation that he found in writing them; and with the 
further pleasure that he found • — and gave — by printing one now and then in a dainty 
pamphlet, illustrated in accordance with his own suggestions, for circulation among his 
immediate friends. Sometimes, and that was the best of all, he would read one to a few of 
us gathered of an evening in his library — a room so filled with characteristic belongings 
that it absolutely was a part of himself. The reading rarely was of set purpose. Something 
in our casual talk would suggest it ; or there would be on an easel a fresh lot of illustra- 
tions for one of his booklets, and we would ask for the poem to which they belonged. And 
then we would have our reading — the charm of the poem increased by the charm of his 
voice — in quite an accidental way. 

" Indeed, it was because everything went easily and a little by chance in those even- 
ings, that they were so delightful. Their only constant and certain quantities were a great 
friendliness and a flow of brilliant talk, that sometimes held seriously to a single topic the 
whole evening through, and that sometimes played with a dozen topics in an hour. In 
those givings and takings of thought he was equally good as a leader or as a listener, and 
I cannot remember an occasion on which any subject was broached about which he was 
not deeply and accurately informed. At the end of our talks he left us always the better 
for his wisdom or his wit : and yet his method was such that, for the moment, we would have 
the feeling that he was merely refreshing knowledge that we possessed and had suffered to 
grow rusty, or that his keen comments and lively sallies of fancy were what we were 
about to say ourselves. 



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Illustration for a Humorous Poem Entitled "The Damson Tart; or, True Love" 

From a Color Design Painted by Professor Morton in 1S66 



" The charm of those evenings — and it was the same charm that made all who came 
-in touch with him better and happier — was his strong, warm sympathy in the doings and 
in the hopes of his fellow men. His manifestation of that sympathy was not careless or 
fitful. 



192 THE STEVENS INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY 

" The considerate purpose of his Hfe was to add to the happiness of other hves. He 
beHeved, and he realized his belief, that only on the lines of reciprocal helpful kindness 
can the approach to universal happiness be made. Here, in his own words, is the state- 
ment of his creed : 

" ' None are alone. 

Each hand in hand with each 
Is travelling toward the fair sublime unknown. 

Forget thy little self. One moment turn 
■ Thine eyes upon the universe and learn 
That thou, and with thee all created things 

Are fellow architects 

Each one of whom erects 
In part, from out this present heaven and earth, 
New earths, new heavens of surpassing worth 
Lovely beyond thy best imaginings. 

" ' Oh, weary, weeping heart, then turn 

From vain repinings at thy state ! 
With thy vast brotherhood of nature learn 

Ever to work and wait. 
And rest assured of this, oh, soul of mine. 
Thy essence is eternal and divine, 
And shall not share its mortal garment's fate.' " 

Mr. Richard Watson Gilder, the well-known poet and editor, writes : 

" How well I remember the late Henry Morton, who used to come into the office in 
Philadelphia, where I was employed, in the days when he was astonishing the city by his 
ingenious and popular lectures on science, and winning laurels also by his share in the en- 
terprise of translating and representing the Rosetta Stone with its inscriptions. His was 
a singularly handsome and genial presence, and it seemed to me that he never lost his charm 
and look of youth. The making of verses was only one evidence of his many-sided tal- 
ent. His poems seemed to me interesting experiments in verbal form and inventive fancy, 
and were entered upon largely in a spirit of recreation. I thank you for letting me record 
my admiration for this interesting man whose career was so consistent, so honorable, and so 
widely useful." 

Thus reaching out into some of the many fields of his activities, the at- 
tempt has been made to bring together the testimony of some of those who were 
his co-workers. No matter how roughly this testimony has been woven together, 
the facts stand out that Henry Morton was a great scientist, a brilliant demonstra- 
tor of natural phenomena, an able administrator, a practical man of affairs, an ad- 
vanced educator, and a gentle. God-fearing man. 

I have made no special reference to his unostentatious charities. Let the 
following words which he wrote some years ago on the death of a dear friend be 
applied to him as he applied them to his friend: 

" In the vast caravan which o'er the sand 
Of time creeps onward toward the promised land 



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Of human hope and happiness for each, 
Which yet how few of all that host may reach, 
Out-worn, exhausted by the toilsome way. 
Our brother fell, as 't were but yesterday; 
He fell, to rise no more beneath the sky, 
But passed into the perfect life on high. 
Ah, gentle soul, so loving, kind, and true. 
What blessedness was there in store for you. 
Hath He not said, who His own life hath given 
And died in agony to win us Heaven, 
' Blessed and welcome to eternal rest 

Are those through whom their fellow-men are blessed ; 

Who 've soothed with kindly hand another's grief 

And found delight in ministering relief,' 
That ' Even a cup of water given in love 
Might win perennial streams 'mid meadows fair above.' 
What hand so prompt as his for other's aid ? 
What heart so kind has ready hand obeyed? 
No thought of self found harbor in that breast 
Always unbarred to welcome the distressed. 
The kindliest soul that e'er to man was given. 
With him departing, sought its native heaven. 
The blessings that commingled with our tears 
Amid Heaven's harmonies he surely hears ; 
And the fond love his goodness won him here 
Will find its way to him even in that highest sphere. 
For hath it not been said by Him we trust 
Supremely : of the good, the true, the just, 
That : ' From their labors when at last they rest, 
Their works do follow them, and they are blessed.' 
We mourn with bitter tears and heartfelt woe 
The loss we suffer missing him below. 
But for our grief is surely balm in this. 
He enters earlier into endless bliss ; 
There by the shining river's shade-cool shore 
He waits to welcome, having gone before." 




President Alexander C. Humphreys 




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ALEXANDER CROMBIE HUMPHREYS, M.E., Sc.D., LL.D. 

President of Stevens Institnte of Technology 

So CLOSELY were President Morton and Mr. Humphreys linked by friend- 
ship, and by unity of hope, purpose, and endeavor in the interests of Stevens, that 
praise of the elder naturally implies indorsement of the younger as his successor. 

Likewise the remarkable call of Mr. Humphreys to the vacant presidency, 
by the unanimous vote of Trustees, Faculty, Alumni, and Undergraduates of 
Stevens Institute, is additional tribute to the master-mind which conceived this 
system of education, and which hitherto has governed the destinies of Stevens. 

For Mr. Humphreys was not only the choice of Dr. Morton's mind and 
heart, but one of his own graduates whom he had especially helped to perfect. Mr. 
Humphreys was the one man whom he desired as his successor, although Dr. Mor- 
ton's characteristic modesty scarcely entertained that hope. Could he have known 
of Mr. Humphreys' coming succession, it would have cheered his last hours. There- 
fore to understand and appreciate Mr. Humphreys' peculiar fitness for the Presi- 
dency of the Stevens Institute of Technology is a special tribute to the memory 
and influence of Henry Morton. 

In my deliberate opinion ^ Mr. Humphreys" greatest, probably far greatest, 
work is still before him. The loss of his beloved sons, on the Nile, February 12, 
1901, while it laid bare the folly of human vanities, has but increased his human 
interests and sympathies. His one residual ambition is to extend his usefulness, 
to the limit of his energies, in the most practical fields for good works. 

His personality must lend new life to a field unploughed by such forces, for 
not before has technical education been directed by so unicjue a blend of broad 
technical attainment, rare executive ability and experience, and that comprehen- 
sive grasp of practical affairs which alone unites cause and effect with a true sense 
of proportion, and conserves to maximum usefulness the energies within its sphere 
of influence. 

In addition, Mr. Humphreys is a Stevens graduate, and the first father 
of a Stevens graduate — ^who closed his young life with an act glorifying to his 
Alma Mater. Before Mr. Humphreys became President of Stevens, he was a 
Permanent Trustee of the Institute, and was a Past-President of the Alumni Asso- 
ciation. He had founded a scholarship, had initiated the course in Business Meth- 
ods and Bookkeeping, and had lectured to the rnidergraduates and addressed the 
graduating class. As President, therefore, he is an old friend in a new and 
more potent guise, and his heart is in the work. 

' These words, and also a large portion of this biography, ars taken from the sketch of Mr. Humphreys' 
life, written for the " Stevens Institute Indicator" of October, 1902, by his business partner and personal friend, 
Mr. Arthur Graham Glasgow, M.E., '85. 



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Alexander Crombie Humohreys was born in Edinburgh, Scotland, March 
30, 185 1. His father, E. R. Humphreys, M.A., M.D., LL.D., was an English 
classical scholar of profound erudition; a well-known educator. The immediate 
antecedents of his mother, Margaret MacNutt, were from Nova Scotia and Prince 
Edward Island. Dr. Humphreys, with his family, moved from England to the 
United States in 1859, and was domiciled in Boston, where he later took out letters 
of naturalization. His children, being minors, ipso facto became American citizens. 

Mr. Humphreys' early aspirations were maritime. At the age of fourteen 
he received an appointment to the United States Naval Academy and successfully 
passed a special test for entrance. He was, however, much under the regulation 
age, and was consequently debarred by the authorities. He then began work in 
a Boston insurance office, pending the period when he might legally enter the 
Naval Academy. But in 1866 he joined the staff of the Guaranty & Indemnity 
Co., of New York, and. his interest being thus diverted, he remained with that 
company until 1872, rising from junior office-boy to a post of high responsibility. 
On the 30th of April in the latter year he married Eva, daughter of the late Dr. 
Emile Guillaudeu, of Bergen Point, N. J. The directors of the gas company of 
that district, having noted his characteristics, induced him to become secretary, 
and shortly afterward also superintendent, of the Bayonne & Greenville Gas 
Light Co. 

Mr. Humphreys' unparalleled success as a gas engineer and manager has led 
many of his acquaintances to consider that work especially adapted to his talents, 
and to regard his accidental failure to enter the navy as a happy contributory cause 
to his success. To attribute any measure of his success to gas engineering is to 
ascribe to that somewhat restricted industry opportunities greater than those en- 
joyed in other fields of endeavor. On the contrary, it is due to Mr. Humphreys 
himself that he and many who have followed him have found satisfying scope in 
gas-manufacture, for he has given an impetus to the American gas industry which 
is little short of revolutionary. Its stagnant technical condition when he entered 
Stevens Institute is in happy contrast to the occupation it now affords to seventy 
Stevens graduates. 

Nor was Mr. Plumphreys especially fitted for this line of work. On the 
contrary, after toiling for five 3^ears at the underlying drudgery of the business, he 
perceived that he was not justifying the hope of notaljle success in his work. He 
then evidenced, for the first time unmistakably, the fundamental qualities to which 
his success is due. Having convinced himself of what may be fairly called his 
unfitness for his occupation, he did not cast about for more congenial and prom- 
ising employment, but straightway grappled with himself. It was not his work, 
but himself, that aroused his dissatisfaction. He felt the will to wring success 
out of existing circumstances, and looked to increase his forces rather than to 
smooth his path. His deliberate conclusion was that he needed special technical 
education and training in order to raise his work to a satisfying plane. 



THE FACULTY 197 

Having reached his conclusion, as an accountant arrives at his balance, he 
was not long in making new and radical dispositions. He first sought the Presi- 
dent of Stevens Institute, who ultimately agreed to accept him as a special student 
on the understanding that he would attend Institute classes two mornings each 
week. In this way Dr. Morton thought he might, in six years, complete the regu- 
lar four years' course of the Institute, provided his strength and determination 
lasted, — small wonder if Dr. Morton doubted the latter! 

Mr. Humphreys had left school at the age of fourteen, twelve years pre- 
viously. He was without the habit of study, and utterly unqualified to pass the 
entrance examinations of the Institute. He had been a bread-winner during that 
period of irresponsible youth when most of us have stored our potential energy. He 
had assumed responsibilities in his community Avhich he could not relinquish; for 
during his Stevens course he was vestryman and treasurer of Trinity Church and 
superintendent of its Sunday School, member of the Bayonne Board of Education, 
and foreman of the Volunteer Fire Brigade. To crown all, his wife, two young 
children, and himself were wholly dependent upon the modest salary derived from 
his responsible and exacting employment. 

But out of his gravest responsibilities he drew his greatest strength. He 
had found the woman whose price is above rubies, and through her self-sacrificing 
devotion the deficient scholar overtook and mastered one of the most difficult of 
collegiate courses. 

Three children in all were born to Mr. and Mrs. Humphreys, two of whom 
were drowned.^ The remaining one, Eva Margaret, was married to Mr. H. S. 
Loud, M.E., (Stevens, '90), August 3, 1898. 

Mr. Humphreys entered Stevens in 1877, and graduated with his Class in 
1881. He thus compressed into his few " spare moments " the work which nor- 
mal students, fresh from advanced schooling, accomplished only by four years of 
unremitting application. So remarkable an achievement was formally recognized 
by resolutions of commendation and congratulation addressed to Mr. Humphreys, 
adopted by the Faculty of the Institute June 11, 1881. 

Shortly after his graduation Mr. Humphreys became chief engineer of 
the Pintsch Lighting Co., of New York. In this position, which he held for over 
three years, he built many oil-gas works, acquired great experience in the manufac- 
ture and utilization of gases of high illuminating power, and ascertained the 
gas-making values of all kinds of oil, especially with reference to the compression 
and storage of gas for the lighting of railway trains, ferryboats, light-buoys, 
etc. To this end he conducted much experimental and demonstrative work, and 
greatly broadened his previous knowledge of the gas industry. 

In 1885 Mr. Humphreys was appointed superintendent of construction for 
the United Gas Improvement Co., and shortly afterward its general superintend- 
ent, with headquarters in Philadelphia. 

1 See ante, pp. 17, 195. 



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During Mr. Humphreys' decade with the United Gas Improvement Co., 
the increase in his responsibihties more than kept pace with the marvellous 
growth of the company. He was first constructing engineer, next general super- 
intendent, then he annexed the contracting department, then the purchasing 
agent's department, and finally the commercial management of all of the company's 
works. In addition he was acting general manager of the Welsbach Incandescent 
Gas Co. (controlled by the United Gas Improvement Co.) while its independent 
organization was being effected. During this time the gas works comprised in 
the company's system increased from ten to nearly fifty. 

In May, 1892, the firm of Humphreys & Glasgow, of London, was estab- 
lished; and in August, 1894, Mr. Humphre3's retired from his official connection 
with the United Gas Improvement Co. in order to establish the firm of Hum- 
phreys & Glasgow, of New York. 

When Mr. Humphreys announced his resignation at the sixth annual meeting 
of the engineers and superintendents of the United Gas Improvement Co., held in 
Philadelphia, April 21, 1894, the subjoined resolutions were unanimously adopted: 

" Whereas, Alexander C. Humphreys, General Superintendent of the United Gas 
Improvement Co., has, at this meeting of superintendents, engineers, and other employees 
assembled, announced his resignation and withdrawal from the services of the company, 
and — • 

" Whereas, this announcement is received by us with profound and heartfelt regret, 
it is herewith — 

" Resolved, that this occasion be taken to express to Mr. Humphreys our deep re- 
gret at the severance of the present relations; that we herewith convey to him the expression 
of our admiration, esteem, and affection for him as a man; and that we extend to him our 
heartfelt wishes for his success in whatever lines of work he may hereafter engage. 

" To the building up of a business to be carried out on lines that were a departure 
from existing precedents, there was required a man of unusual foresight, ability, and clear- 
ness of purpose. In the development of the United Gas Improvement Co., under Mr. 
Humphreys, we recognize the logical outcome of such ability, and the work of a natural 
leader and of a manager foremost in his profession, and we believe that the working or- 
ganization that he has perfected stands to-day the best and most enduring monument to 
his labors. 

" A conscientious worker, rarely skilled in his profession, indefatigable and earnest 
in purpose — he, more largely than any other one person, has been the factor that has brought 
the United Gas Improvement Co. to its present enviable position in the gas world; to a point 
where its integrity, rank, and purpose are recognized, and where connection with it is an 
honor to every man of us here assembled. 

" But while we recognize, as above, the business ability of Mr. Humphreys, there is 
a deeper and a sweeter attraction that draws us all to him, and that makes the pain of 
losing him the greater, — and that is, his integrity, his individuality, his personality, and his 
magnetism as a man. Rarely, indeed, is seen a man so conscientious in his effort to meet 
his responsibility to his employers ; so keenly appreciative of earnest work ; so impartial in 
his judgment; so constant and so successful in the effort to act with fairness to all. Of no 
man can it be more truly said, he is a man of honor, integrity, and justice. 



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" To the younger men of us his example is one for admiration and inspiration, show- 
ing the possibilities of a man. To the older men here assembled, who have known him 
during years of association and of ever-increasing respect, there is but admiration for his 
unswerving adherence to his principles and belief, for his constant kindliness, his daily liv- 
ing of the Golden Rule. In his new fields of labor the united good wishes of this assembly 
go out to him for his success, joined with the earnest hope for continuance to him of good 
health. 

" Again, in losing him, we express the unanimous, profound, and heartfelt regret of 
every man among us ; for in working with him we have learned to love him." 

To this may be added the following extract from one of the gas journals : 

" Mr. Humphreys has built up the present system of management of controlled com- 
panies which is the admiration of gas men throughout the world, and which enables the 
company's small army of employees to be worked as a unit. In 1885 the company had prac- 
tically no well-defined system of managing its various properties, which at that time num- 
bered less than ten. During the next few years, while the new system was being developed, 
more than twenty works were added to the number. The development of the Humphreys 
system, which is the chief distinguishing work of the author, had to be undertaken without 
any guide in the way of previous experience. 

" An impartial history of the progress of water gas during the past twenty years 
must place in the foremost rank three names : These are Lowe, Granger, and Humphreys. 
To the first belongs the palm of mechanical success ; to the second, that of commercial suc- 
cess ; to the third, that of the perfect development of both of these. If such a history were 
to be confined to a single chapter, the caption of that chapter might well be written : Water 
Gas, Before and After Humphreys." 

Mr. Humphreys was especially responsible for the development of the 
" Lowe " water-gas apparatus into its present form, known as the " double-super- 
heater," and the London firm of Humphreys & Glasgow, of which Mr. Glasgow is 
the active partner, was the first to introduce this type of water-gas apparatus into 
foreign countries. The New York firm confines its business to the management 
of lighting properties and to consulting, Mr. Humphreys' professional advice be- 
ing of special value to bankers in connection with schemes of reorganization and 
consolidation. 

On June 5, 1902, Mr. Humphreys was elected President of Stevens Insti- 
tute of Technology by a unanimous vote of the Board of Trustees, who adopted 
the following resolution : 

" Resolved, that the Trustees of Stevens Institute, feeling assured of the eminent fit- 
ness of Mr. Humphreys to carry on the work so well established by Dr. Henry Morton, and 
rejoicing in the cordial unanimity with which the faculty, students, and alumni indorse his 
nomination, do appoint Mr. Alexander C. Humphreys President of the Stevens Institute of 
Technology." 

In 1903 the degree of Doctor of Science was conferred upon President 
Humphreys by the University of Pennsylvania, and the degree of Doctor of Laws 
by Columbia University. 



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Mr. Humphreys has been the chief executive officer of more than fifty-five 
gas and electric-Hght companies, and was for a time President of the Syracuse 
Gas Co., of Syracuse, N. Y. ; Vice-President of the United Coke & Gas Co., 
of Philadelphia, Pittsburg, and New York ; and President of the City Gas Co., of 
Norfolk, Va. At present Mr. Humphreys is President of the Stevens Institute of 
Technology; senior member of the firm of Humphreys & Glasgow, gas engineers. 
New York and London ; President of the Buffalo Gas Co. ; and President of the 
Manganese Steel Safe Co., of New York; a director of the Taylor Iron & Steel 
Co.; and a director of the Consolidated Gas Co., of Baltimore, Md. 

He is a member of the following technical societies : American Society for 
the Promotion of Engineering Education; New York Section of Society of Chem- 
ical Industry ; Institution of Civil Engineers, Great Britain ; American Society of 
Civil Engineers ; American Society of Mechanical Engineers ; American Institute 
of Mining Engineers ; American Gas Light Association ; Western Gas Association ; 
New England Association of Gas Engineers ; Society of Gas Lighting, New York ; 
Ohio Gas Light Association ; Pacific Coast Gas Association ; The Franklin Insti- 
tute; American Association for the Advancement of Science; British Association 
for the Advancement of Science; American Chemical Society; and the American 
Academy of Political and Social Science ; also of the following societies : Cham- 
ber of Commerce, New York ; American Geographical Society ; New York Botan- 
ical Garden; Metropolitan Museum of Art; Civic Federation, New York; School 
of Applied Design for Women (Director) ; Society of Art Collectors (Director) ; 
Municipal Art Society; Wild Flower Preservation Society of America; Civil Ser- 
vice Reform Association, Philadelphia, and the Delta Tau Delta fraternity ; and an 
honorary member of the Tau Beta Pi fraternity ; and in addition he is a member 
of the Century Association, the University Ckib, Philadelphia, and the Lotos, City, 
Church, Lawyers', Chemists', Buffalo, Parmachinee, St. Maurice Fish and Game, 
Philadelphia Cricket, and Somerset Hills Country clubs ; and the Morris County, 
Nassau Country, Manchester ( England ), West Lancashire (England), and Turn- 
berry (Scotland), golf clubs. He is also connected with about thirty societies en- 
gaged in philanthrophic work, is Junior Warden of St. Paul's Church, Glen Cove, 
N. Y., and treasurer and member of the Vestry of All Angels' Church, New York. 

Mr. Humphreys was President of the American Gas Light Association for 
the year 1 898-1 899. It was through the agency of this Association that Mr. Hum- 
phreys and Mr. Walton Clark — his successor in the United Gas Improvement Co. 
— were instrumental in establishing the Correspondence Class in Gas Engineer- 
ing. This class has been a marked success. 

Mr. Humphreys has contributed a number of valuable papers to technical 
literature. The more important of his writings are included in the following list : 

" Water Gas ; Its Efficiency as Compared with Coal Gas." Prepared as a Graduating 
Thesis, 1881. 



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" Illumination versus Candle Power." Read before the American Gas Light Asso- 
ciation, October,. 1887. 

" Water Gas in the United States." Read before the British Association for the 
Advancement of Science, August, 1899. 

" The Stevens Course in Engineering." Address to the Alumni Association of 
Stevens Institute, January, 1891. 

" Theory versus Practice." Read before the American Gas Light Association, Oc- 
tober, 1892. 

" Address to the Graduating Class of Stevens Institute," 1893. 

"Enrichment of Coal Gas." Progressive Age, August i, 1894. 

" The Question of Economical Gas Enrichment," by A. C. Humphreys and A. G. 
Glasgov^^ Journal of Gas Lighting (English), November 6, 1894. 

" The Commercial Value of Photometry." Read before the American Gas Light 
Association, October 16, 1895. 

" The Alleged Law of Inverse Squares." Written discussion of paper by B. E. 
Chollar under above title, read before the Western Gas Association, May 20, 1896. 

" Self-Education in Gas-Engineering." Read before the Western Gas Association, 
May 20, 1896. 

" Some Experiments in Interior Illumination." Written discussion of paper by C. H. 
Page, Jr., read before the American Gas Light Association, October, 1896. 

" Inclined Retorts up to Date." Written discussion of Fred. Egner's paper on above 
subject, read before the American Gas Light Association, October 28, 1896. 

" Cheap Gas." Consideration of the questions involved in a fair analysis of the 
question of cheap gas at any one locality. Read before the Society of Gas Lighting, New 
York, January, 1897. 

"Is a Knowledge of Business Methods of Importance to the Engineer?" Read be- 
fore the Senior Class of Stevens Institute, March 23, 1897. 

" Correspondence Schools." Read before the New England Association of Gas En- 
gineers, February, 1899. 

" President's Annual Address," delivered before the American Gas Light Associa- 
tion, October, 1899. 

"Recent History of the Hall (Chisholm) Gas Process." Read at the March, 1900, 
meeting of the Society of Gas Lighting, New York. 

" Talk on Business Methods." Read before the students of Stevens Institute, March 
30, 1900. 

" Should the Stevens Curriculum Include Instruction in Bookkeeping and Account- 
ing? " Stevens Institute Indicator, July, 1900. 

" Investigation of Gas Processes." Read before the Pacific Coast Gas Association, 
July, 1900. 

" Obituary, Henry Morton, Ph.D., Sc.D., LL.D." Stevens Institute Indicator, July 
1902. 

" President's Opening Address to the Faculty and Students of Stevens Institute," 
September 24, 1902. 

" Technical Education ; Its Bearing on the Question of Commercial Supremacy." De- 
livered October 15, 1902, before the Newark Wednesday Club. 

" Technical Education." Address to the Alumni of the Massachusetts Institute of 
Technology, Boston, December 26, 1902. 

" Instruction in Business Methods for the Engineer-Student." Cassier's Magazine, 
March, 1903. 



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Inaugural Address, delivered February 5, 1903, upon the occasion of his taking oath 
as President of Stevens Institute of Technology. Stevens Institute Indicator, April, 1903. 

Address to the Alumni of Stevens Institute and their guests at the Inaugural Ban- 
quet, February 5, 1903. Stevens Institute Indicator, April, 1903. 

" The Commercial Value of a College Training." Address before the Alumni of 
Columbia University, June 10, 1903. 

" The College Graduate as an Engineer." Address at the College of the City of 
New York, December 15, 1903. Published in the Stevens Institute Indicator, January, 1904. 

" Our Correspondence School." Read at the October, 1903, meeting of the Ameri- 
can Gas Light Association, at Detroit, Mich. 

" The Claims of Business upon the Engineer." Address to the students of Armour 
Institute, March 23, 1904. 

" The Engineer as a Business Man." Address to the students of the University of 
Wisconsin, March 25, 1904. Published in the Stevens Institute Indicator, July, 1904. 

" The Engineer, to be Practical, Must be Trained in Business Methods." Address 
to the students of Sibley College, Cornell University, April 22, 1904. 

" The Crowding of the Curriculum." Paper presented at the September, 1904, meet- 
ing of the Society for the Promotion of Engineering Education. 

" The School." Address before the American Society of Civil Engineers and visit- 
ing members of the Institution of Civil Engineers, September 16, 1904. Published in the 
Stevens Institute Indicator, October, 1904. 

" Notes on Some of the Business Features of Engineering Practice." Used as a text 
book in the Department of Business Engineering of Stevens Institute, 1904. 



ALFRED MARSHALL MAYER, Ph.D. 

Professor of Physics, i8yi-i8g7 

Alfred M. Mayer was born in Baltimore, Mel, November 13, 1836. He 
was the son of Charles F. Mayer, a disting'uished jurist of the Baltimore bar, and 
nephew of Col. Brantz Mayer, U.S.A., the historian, and founder of the Mary- 
land Historical Society. His grandfather, Christian Mayer, a native of the old 
free imperial city of Ulm, on the Danube, came to this country in 1784 and 
resided during the remainder of his life in Baltimore, where he formed the firm 
of Mayer & Brantz, and engaged in commercial transactions with, and in voyages 
to, Holland, Italy, Denmark, Isle of France, Calcutta,' and Madras. Christian 
Mayer was also consul-general to the kingdom of Wurtemberg. 

Alfred M. Mayer was educated at St. Mary's College, Baltimore, which in- 
stitution he left in 1852 to enter the workshop and draughting-room of a 
mechanical engineer, where he acquired a knowledge of mechanical processes and 
the use of tools, for which he had a natural aptitude. He remained in this place 
for two years and then took up a course of laboratory practice in physics and 
chemistry for two years more, during which period his first contribution to science, 
entitled " A New Apparatus for the Determination of Carbonic Acid," was pub- 
lished both in this country and in Europe. It was at this time that he attracted 




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the attention of Joseph Henry, who was then Secretary of the Smithsonian Insti- 
tution, and who had been for thirty years identified with the advancement of pure 
science. The encouragement which young Alfred Mayer received from this dis- 
tinguished scientist did much to influence him to a hfe devoted to scientific re- 
search. At the remarkably early age of 
twenty years he was made Professor of 
Physics and Chemistry in the University 
of Maryland, and three years later ac- 
cepted a similar position in Westminster 
College, Missouri. He went abroad in 
1863 and entered the University of Paris, 
where he pursued his studies in physics, 
mathematics and physiology. While in 
Paris he was a pupil of the distinguished 
physicist Regnault. On his return to this 
country in 1865 h^ became Professor of 
Physics in Pennsylvania College, Gettys- 
burg, where he remained until 1867, when 
he was called to the Chair of Physics and 
Astronomy in Lehigh University, where 
he designed and equipped an astronomi- 
cal observatory, erected the delicate instru- 
ments and finished the tedious work of ^''°^- ^- ^^- ^^^^^ 
adjusting them, without assistance. A series of systematic observations on Jupi- 
ter were made, the results of which were published on two continents. 

During the summer of 1869 the United States Almanac Office selected Prof. 
Mayer to take charge of one of several parties of astronomers sent out to make ob- 
servations of the total solar eclipse of August 7. At Burlington, Iowa, forty-two 
perfect photographs were taken with exposures of 0.002 seconds each. This 
was in the early days of photography and was accounted an unusual feat; five of 
these photographs being taken during the eighty-three seconds of totality. The re- 
sults given by these Burlington photographs were published in an elaborate paper 
in the " Journal of the Franklin Institute," and in the publication of the Almanac 
Office. While at Lehigh University he published, also, a number of articles on 
physical and astrophysical subjects, and in 1869 read a paper at the Salem meet- 
ing of the Scientific Association on " The Thermodynamics of Waterfalls " based 
on observations made at Trenton Falls and Niagara Falls. 

In 1 87 1 Professor Mayer was called to Stevens Institute of Technology to 
organize and take charge of the Department of Physics. Of his connection with 
Stevens, " Science" of August 20, 1897, says: 

" It is with this institution, therefore, that his name will be chiefly identified, though 
his researches were for the most part in channels somewhat removed from those that are 




204 THE STEVENS INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY 

usually characteristic of an engineering school. Its instrumental equipment was unusually 
good, and proximity to a great metropolis afforded the intellectual stimulus and the prompt 
recognition of merit which are wanting in isolated institutions of learning." 

The same journal also says that — 

— " soon after entering upon his duties at Hoboken, Professor Mayer began the series of in- 
vestigations in acoustics for which he is perhaps l)est known, and which made him decidedly 
the leading authority on this subject in America." 

One of the strong points of Dr. Mayer's character was his great industry 
in his profession, and he has been ahuded to as the " prince of experimenters." 
His labors since 1855 resulted in about one hundred publications, of Avhich six 
are standard books. All of his writings are characterized by a clear and graceful 
style, and embody that personal charm of originality which he alone possessed. 
Acoustics was his favorite field of research, although electricity, electro-magnetic 
phenomena, and optics, especially photometry and color-contrasts, received much 
of his attention. 

The degree of Doctor of Philosophy was conferred upon Prof. Mayer in 
1864 by the Pennsylvania College. In 1872 he was elected a member of the 
National Academy of Sciences, and was connected with many other scientific so- 
cieties, among which may be mentioned the American Philosophical Society, the 
American Academy of Arts and Sciences, the New York Academy of Sciences, 
and the American Meteorological Society. He was a corresponding member of 
the British Association for the Advancement of Science, and a Fellow of the 
American Association of the same name ; he was also a member of the Century 
Club. 

With all the scientific work which Prof. Mayer accomplished in his three- 
score years, he found much time to devote to outdoor recreation. While in youth 
he became an accomplished marksman, and during his entire life was an excep- 
tionally successful sportsman. In 1884 he won the national championship in 
minnow-casting with a rod of his own invention. The columns of the " Century 
Magazine " frecjuently received articles from him on sporting subjects, and in 1883 
he edited and was author of a number of chapters of a superbly illustrated book 
entitled " Sport with Gun and Rod in American Woods and Waters." This book is 
spoken of by the " Scientific American " as " one of the finest books on sports that 
has ever been produced." He also took particular pleasure in the study of archaeol- 
ogy, in which subject he showed an unusual acumen. While in France some years 
ago he secured some remarkable finds of prehistoric handiwork, almost in the identi- 
cal places where Boucher de Perthes carried on his earliest researches more than 
sixty years ago. 

Prof. Mayer married Catherine Duckett Goldsborough in 1865, and they 
had one son, Alfred G. Mayer. He lost his first wife, and in 1869 married Maria 



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Louisa Snowclen. By this marriag-e there were two sons, Brantz and Joseph Henry 
Mayer. 

The following is a list of papers and publications embodying results of 
original researches of Prof. Alfred M. Mayer from 1871 to i8q7 : 

" Acoustical Experiments, Showing that the Translation of a Vibrating Body Causes 
It to Give a Wave-Length Differing 
from that Produced by the Same 
Vibrating Body when Stationary." 
Am. Jour. Sci.\ April, 1872; Phil. 
Mag.\ XLIII, 278; Pogg. Ann:' 
CXLVI; Comptes Rcndus, March, 
1872; Nature, May 9, 1872; Karl 
Rcp.\ VIII, 128. 

" On a New Form of Lan- 
tern Galvanometer." Am. Jour. 
Sci., June, 1872; Phil. Mag., XLIV, 
25; I<:arl Rep., VIII, 133; Jour. 
Frank. Inst.", 1872. 

" On a Precise Method of 
Tracing the Progress and of De- 
termining the Boundary of a Wave 
of Conducted Heat." Am. Jour. 
Sci., July, 1872; Phil. Mag., XLIV, 
257 ; Abstract of the above in the 
Journal de Physique, 1872. 

" Remarks on Dr. R. Radau's 
Paper in Dr. Karl's Repertorinm, 
Entitled, ' Remarks on the Influence 
of a Motion of Translation of a 
Sounding Body on the Pitch of 
the Sound '." Am. Jour. Sci., Sep- 
tember, 1872; K^arl Rep., 1872. 

" Erratum of the Errata ; or, 
A^ew Millions." Nature, Septem- 
ber 5, 1872; Am. Jour. Sci., October, 
1872. 

" On a Method of Detecting 
the Phases of Vibration in the Air 
Surrounding a Sounding Body ; 
and thereby Measuring Directly in 
the Vibrating Air the Length of Its 
Waves and Exploring the Form of 
Its Wave Surface." Am. Jour. Sci., 
CXLVIII, 278. 

" The Manometric Flames of Dr. R. Kon 




Chrohatic Photometer 
Prof. A . M. Mayer 



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Ann. 



November, 1872; Phil. Mag., XLIV, 32 

4mer. Jour. Sci., December, 1872, 



American Journal of Science." ^ " philosophical Magazine." ^ " Poggendorf's Annalen." 

''"Karl's Repertorium." '^"Journal of the Franklin Institute." 



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" On a Simple and Precise Method of Measuring the Wave-Lengths and Velocities 
of Sound in Gases ; and on an Application of the Method in the Invention of an Acoustic 
Pyrometer." Ibid., December, 1872; Phil. Mag., XLV, 18; Pogg. Ann., CXLVIII, 287. 

" On the Experimental Determination of the Relative Intensities of Sound ; and on 
the Measurement of the Powers of Various Substances to Reflect and to Transmit Sonorous 
Vibrations." Am. Jour. Sci., February, 1873; Phil. Mag., XLV, 90; Journal de Physique, 
1873- 

" On the Effects of Magnetization in Changing the Dimensions of Iron, Steel, and 
Bismuth Bars, and in Increasing the Interior Capacity of Hollow Iron Cylinders." Part I. 
Am. -Jour. Sci., March, 1873 ; Phil. Mag. XLV, 350. 

" On a Simple Device for Projecting on a Screen the Deflections of the Needles of 
a" Galvanometer, and thus Obtaining an Instrument Convenient in Research and Suitable for 
Lecture Experiments." Am. Jour. Sci., April, 1873; ^/''^- M<^g-> XLV, 260; Karl Rep., IX, 
65. 

" On the Eft'ects of Magnetization in Changing the Dimensions of Iron, Steel, and 
Bismuth Bars, and in Increasing the Interior Capacity of Hollow Iron Cylinders." Part II. 
Am. Jour. Sci., August, 1873; -P^"^- Mag., XLVI, 177. 

"Researches in Acoustics, Paper No. 5, containing: i. Experimental Confirmation 
of Fourier's Theorem as Applied to the Decomposition of the Vibrations of a Composite 
Sonorous Wave into Its Elementary Pendulum-Vibrations. 2. An Experimental Illustration 
of Helmholtz's Hypothesis of Audition. 3. Experiments on the Supposed Auditory Appa- 
ratus of the Culex Mosquito. 4. Suggestions as to the Function of the Spiral Scalae of the 
Cochlea, Leading to an Hypothesis of the Mechanism of Audition. 5. Seven Experimental 
Methods of Sonorous Analysis Described and Discussed. 6. The Curve of a Musical Note, 
Formed by Combining the Sinusoids of Its First Six Harmonics; and the Curves Formed 
by Combining the Curves Corresponding to Various Consonant Intervals. 7. Experiments 
in Which Are Produced from the Above (sec. 6) Curves the Motions of a Molecule of Air 
when It Is Animated with the Resultant Action of the Six Elementary Vibrations Forming 
a Musical Note; or Is Set in Motion by the Combined Action of Sonorous Vibrations 
Forming Various Consonant Intervals." Am. Jour. Sci., August, 1874; Phil. Mag., XLVIII, 

445- 

"Researches in Acoustics, Paper No. 6, containing: i. The Determination of the 
Law Connecting the Pitch of a Sound with the Duration of Its Residual Sensation. 2. The 
Determination of the Numbers of Beats, throughout the Musical Scale, Which Produce 
the Greatest Dissonances. 3. Application of These Laws (i) and (2) in a New Method 
of Sonorous Analysis, by Means of a Perforated Rotating Disk. 4. Deductions from These 
Laws Leading to New Facts in the Physiology of Audition. 5. Quantitative Applications of 
These Laws to the Fundamental Facts of Musical Harmony." Am. Jour. Sci., October, 1874; 
Phil. Mag., XLIX, 352. 

"Researches in Acoustics, Paper No. 7, containing: Experiments on the Reflection 
of Sound from Flames and Heated Gases." Aui. Jour. Sci., November, 1874; Phil. Mag. 
XLIX, 428. ■ 

" On a New Method of Investigating the Composite Nature of the Electric Dis- 
charge." Am. Jour. Sci., December, 1874; Phil. Mag., XLIX, 47; Journal de Physique, 1875. 

" A Redetermination of the Constants of the Law Connecting the Pitch of a Sound 
with the Duration of Its Residual Sensation." Am. Jour. Sci., April, 1875. 

" The History of Young's Discovery of His Theory of Colors." Ibid., April, 1875 ; 
Phil. Mag., February, 1876. 

" On Proposed Researches in Acoustics." Am. Jour. Sci., April, 1876. 



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" The Discovery of a Method for Obtaining Thermographs of the Isothermal Lines 
of the Solar Disk." Ibid., July, 1875 ; Nahire, August, 1875. 

" Mayer's Method of Obtaining the Isothermals of the Solar Disk." Nature, Octo- 
ber, 1875. 

"Researches in Acoustics, Paper No. 8, containing: i. On the Obhteration of the 
Sensation of One Sound by the Simultaneous Action on the Ear of Another More Intense 
and Lower Sound. 2. On the Discovery of the Fact that a Sound, even when Intense, Can- 
not Obliterate the Sensation of Another Sound Lower than It in Pitch. 3. On a Proposed 
Change in the Usual Method of Conducting Orchestral Music, Indicated by the Above Dis- 
covertes. 4. Applications of the Interferences of Sonorous Sensations to Determinations of 
the Relative Intensities of Sounds." 
Am. Jour. ScL, 1876; Phil. Mag., 
1876; Nature, August 10, 1876. 

" Experiments with Floating 
Magnets ; Showing the Motions and 
Arrangements in a Plane of Freely 
Moving Bodies, Acted on by Forces 
of Attraction and Repulsion; and 
Serving in the Study of the Direc- 
tions and Motions of the Lines of 
Magnetic Force." Am. Jour. Sci.. 
1878; Nature, XVIII, 1878. 

" On the Morphological Laws 
of the Configurations Formed by 
Magnets Floating Vertically and 
Subjected to the Attraction of a 
Supposed Magnet; with Notes on 
Some of the Phenomena in Molecu- 
lar Structure which these Experi- 
ments May Serve to Explain and 
Illustrate." Am. Jour. Sci., Octo- 
ber, 1878. 

" Observations on the Trans- 
it of Mercury of May 6, 1878." 
Sci. Am. Slippy May, 1878. 

" Translation, with Addi- 
tions, of Prof. Dvorak's ' Acoustic 
Repulsion '." Am. Jour. Sci., July, 
1878; Phil. Mag., 1878. 

" Experimental Researches in the Determination of the Forms of Acoustic Wave- 
Surfaces, Leading to the Invention of the Topophone, an Instrument to Determine the Direc- 
tion of a Source of Sound." Am. Jour. Otology, October, 1879. 

"The Velocity of Shot." A.A.A.S.\ 1880. 

" A New Method of Obtaining a Permanent Trace of the Plane of Oscillation of a 
Foucault Pendulum." Ibid., 1880. 

" On a Simple Means of Measuring the Angle of Inclination of the Mirrors Used 
in Fresnel's Experiment on the Interference of Light." Ibid., 1880. 




Acoustic Experiment 

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" Henry as a Discoverer." A Memorial Address, Delivered August 26, 1880, in San- 
ders Theatre, Harvard University, before the American Association for the Advancement 
of Science. 

" On a New Heliostat." Nat. Acad. Sci.\ April, 1882. 

" On a Method of Precisely Measuring the Vibratory Periods of Tuning-Forks, and 
the Determination of the Laws of the Vibrations of Forks; with Special Reference of the 
Facts and Laws to the Action of a Simple Chronoscope." Memoirs, Nat. Acad. Sci., Ill, pt. 
I, 1884. 

" On the Well-Spherometer ; an Instrument that Measures the Radius of Curvature 
of a Lens of any Linear Aperture." Am. Jour. Sci., July, 1886. 

" Experiments with a Pendulum-Electrometer, Illustrating Measurements of Static 
Electricity in Absolute Units." Ibid., May, 1890. 

" On Electric Potential as Measured by Work." Ibid., May, 1890. 

"On a Large Spring-Balance Electrometer for Measuring (Before an Audience) 
Specific Inductive Capacities and Potentials." Ibid., June, 1890. 

" An Experimental Proof of Ohm's Law : Preceded by a Short Account of the Dis- 
covery and Subsequent Verification of the Law." Ibid., July, 1890. 

" On the Determination of the Coefficient of Cubical Expansion of a Solid from the 
Observation of the Temperature at which Water, in a Vessel Made of This SoHd, Has 
the Same Apparent Volume as It Has at 0° C. ; and on the Coefficient of Cubical Expan- 
sion of a Substance Determined by Means of a Hydrometer Made of This Substance." Ibid., 
October, 1890. 

" On the Illuminating Power of Flat Petroleum Flames in Various Azimuths." Ibid., 
January, 1891. 

" On the Physical Properties of Hard Rubber, or Vulcanite." Ibid., January, 1891. 

" On a Method of Transferring Chladno's Acoustic Figures to Paper without Dis- 
tortion." Nat. Acad. Sci., April, 1892. 

" Studies of the Phenomena of Simultaneous Contrast-Color; and on a Photometer 
for Measuring the Intensities of Lights of Different Colors." Am. Jour. Sci., July, 1893; 
Stev. Ind.', X, 326. 

"Researches in Acoustics; Paper No. 9, containing: i. The Law Connecting the 
Pitch of a Sound with the Duration of Its Residual Sensation. 2. The Smallest Consonant 
Interval Among Simple Tones. 3. The Durations of the Residual Sonorous Sensations as 
Dedifced from the Smallest Consonant Intervals Among Simple Tones." Am. Jour. Sci., 
January, 1894. 

"An Apparatus to Show Simultaneously to Several Hearers the Blending of the 
Sensations of Interrupted Tones." Ibid., April, 1894. 

" On the Production of Beats and Beat-Tones by the Co-Vibration of Two Sounds 
so High in Pitch that when Separately Sounded They Are Inaudible." Nat. Acad. Sci., 
April, 1894. 

" On the Production of Beat-Tones from Two Vibrating Bodies Whose Frequencies 
Are so High as To Be Separately Inaudible." Oxford Meeting of the British Association 
for the Advancement of Science, August 13, 1894. 

" On the Berthellot-Mahler Calorimeter for the Determination of the Calorific Power 
of Fuels." Stev. Ind., April, 1895, p. 133. 



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" A Simple Linkage Showing the Laws of the Refraction of Light." Nat. Acad. Sci., 
April, 1895. 

" Note on the Analysis of Contrast-Colors by Viewing through a Reflecting Tube a 
Graded Series of Gray Disks, or Rings, on Colored Surfaces." Am. Jour. Sci., January, 
1896. 

" Researches in Acoustics. Paper No. 10, containing the Variation of the Modulus 
of Elasticity with Change of Temperature as Determined by the Transverse Vibration of 
Bars at Various Temperatures." Read before the British Association for the Advancement 
of Science at Oxford, August, 1894. Ibid., February, 1896; Stev. Ind., XIII, 107. (The 
results contained in these various researches in Acoustics, extending over twenty-four years, 
have been embodied by Lord Rayleigh in his "Theory of Sound," 2 vols., London, 1894-96.) 

"Researches on the Roentgen Rays, containing: i. The Roentgen Rays Cannot 
Be Polarized by Passing through Herapathite. 2. The Density of Herapathite. 3. The 
Formulae of Transmission of the Roentgen Rays through Crown Glass, Aluminum, Plat- 
mum, Green Tourmaline, and Herapathite. 4. The Actinic Action of the Roentgen Rays 
Varies Inversely as the Square of the Distance of the Sensitive Plate from the Source of 
the Rays." Am. Jour. Sci., June, 1896. 

" Malus' Residence in Paris, where He Discovered the Polarization of Light, Located 
by Means of the Angle of Polarization of Light Reflected from the Windows of the Luxem- 
burg Palace." Nat. Acad. Sci., April, 1896. 

" On the Floating of Metals and Glass on Water and Other Liquids." Science, Sep- 
tember 4, 1896; Stev. Ind., October, 1896, p. 400. 

"An Experimental Investigation of the Equilibrium of the Forces Acting in the Flo- 
tation of Disks and Rings of Metal; Leading to Measures of Surface-Tension." Nat. Acad. 
Sci., October, 1896. 

The following books have been written by Prof. Mayer : 

" The Earth a Great Magnet." A lecture delivered before the Yale Scientific Club, 
February 14, 1872. D. Van Nostrand, New York. 

"Lecture Notes on Physics." Jour. Frank. Inst., 1869; "Light." D. Appleton & 
Co., New York, 1877. 

" Sound." D. Appleton & Co., New York, 1878. 

" Sport with Gun and Rod in American Woods and Waters." Illustrated, i vol. 
roy. 8vo. The Century Co., New York, 1888. 

Prof. Mayer has also written articles for cyclopgedias and technical journals 
as follows : 

" Harmony," " Microscope," " Music," " Pyrometer," " Sound," " Spectrum," and 
" Stereoscope," in Appleton's "American Cyclopaedia," 1874-75. 

" Diamagnetism," in "Johnson's Cyclopsedia," 1876 and 1893. 

" Magnetism " and " Radiometer," Ihid., 1877. 

" Edison's Talking-Machine," " Flying-Machines and Penaud's Artificial Birds " 
(translated from the /ottnia/ c?g P/^3;J^gM^), and " Marcy's New Results in Animal Move- 
ments," in the Popular Science Monthly. 

" Minute Measurements of Science," a series of nineteen articles in the Scientific 
American Supplement, 1876-78. 



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ROBERT HENRY THURSTON, Ph.B., C.E., LL.D. 

Professor of Mechanical Engineering 18/1-1883 

Robert Henry Thurston, son of Robert Lawton Thurston., a veteran me- 
chanic and pioneer steam-engine manufacturer of Providence, R. I., was born Oc- 
tober 25, 1839. He was trained in the workshops of his father, and graduated 
at Brown University in 1859 with the degrees of Bachelor of Philosophy and Civil 
Engineer, to which were added Master 
of Arts in 1869, and Doctor of Laws in 
1889. For two years following he was 
engaged with the firm of which his 
father was senior partner. 

In 1 86 1 he entered the navy as 
officer of engineers and served during the 
Civil War on various vessels, being pres- 
ent at the battle of Port Royal and at the 
siege of Charleston. He was attached to 
the North and South Atlantic squadrons 
until the close of 1865, when he was 
detailed to do duty in the Department 
of Natural and Experimental Philosophy 
at the United States Naval Academy at 
Annapolis. Upon the death of the Pro- 
fessor of the Department he was placed 
in charge, ad interim, under Adm. David 
D. Porter, Superintendent of the Acad- 
emy. The late Admiral, then Lieutenant-Commander, Sampson relieved him in 
1870, when he was invited by President Morton to take part in the organization 
of the Stevens Institute of Technology and to occupy the Chair of Mechanical En- 
gineering. 

From the start Prof. Thurston was actively engaged in supplying the tech- 
nical and other journals with such matter as was appropriate to each, and did 
much in that way to secure a constituency and friends for the new institution. 
He secured from the United States Patent Office and from private sources the 
nucleus of a technical collection and some useful tools and machinery. At the 
time of the opening of the Institute in the fall of 1871, Prof. Thurston, who had 
assisted President Morton in the arrangement of the engineering curriculum, or- 
ganized a mechanical laboratory on a small scale. This was the first instance, so 
far as known, in which it had been proposed to combine research, instruction, and 
commercial work as an adjunct to a school of engineering or other institution of 
learninsr. 




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The Mechanical Laboratory promptly took up important tasks and exten- 
sive investigations, many of them incomplete and sometimes crude; for the task 
was that of a pioneer, and the means were not yet obtainable with which to per- 
form ideal work. But the way was broken and the path well cleared for more 
modern methods and apparatus and for better-trained observers, and these trained 
observers often became successful investigators in all branches of engineering and 
applied science. It may be safely asserted that this output of skilled scientific in- 
vestigators is a most important product of the Institute, and perhaps its most val- 
uable contribution to the advancement of the profession of the old empiricism into 
the modern systematic and scientific methods and practice. 

The work performed during that embryonic period included an extensive 
investigation of the effects of time and loading upon the materials of construc- 
tion, and resulted in the discovery, with iron and steel, of " the exaltation of the 
normal series of elastic limits by strain ; " in the distinction of the two classes of 
metals called the " iron class " and the " tin class ;" and their characteristic dif- 
ferences as to the behavior and safety under overstrain; in the discovery and 
the exhibition of the fact that a piece of structural iron always carries in its 
elastic limit a measure of the greatest load which has come upon it in its history 
from the rolling-mill, and of a method of application of this fact to the detection, 
in some cases, of the causes of accidents. It was discovered that it is practically 
possible to test a bar to its elastic limit, and thus to obtain a knowledge, sub- 
stantially accurate, the class of metal being known, of its value under load, and 
then to place the piece in its position in the structure with confidence that it has 
the required strength and resilience; or, rejecting it, and testing it to rupture, to 
prove its imfitness. It was shown that steel was subject to the same effects of 
time and strain as was iron, and the value of cold-rolled steel was revealed and 
proved. 

The relations were traced between the tensional and the torsional resist- 
ances of materials of various classes, and an exact relation was determined for 
steel as a basis for employment of the "Autographic Recording Testing Machine," 
the invention of which, as well as of other apparatus, was compelled by the necessi- 
ties of researches planned at the time. 

In the field of metals of the " tin class," and especially of the alloys of the 
familiar metals, copper, tin, and zinc, extensive researches were conducted, in 
1875 and later, resulting in the exploration of the whole field by a pioneer inves- 
tigation, and the revelation of the composition as well as of the existence of the 
" maximum alloys," the complete exploration of the binary and ternary composi- 
tions, and the publication of results by the United States government as a por- 
tion of the work of the United States board appointed to test iron, steel, and 
other metals, of which Prof. Thurston was secretary. He was also chairman 
of a number of committees and in direct charge of this class of researches, the 
greater part of which were conducted at the Stevens Institute as the only avail- 



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able place at the time for that work. The research was left incomplete by the 
government through refusal of Congress to make appropriations for another year, 
the Ordnance Bureau of the War Department pressing for control, and it was fin- 
ished by the Laboratory. In subsequent years, with larger facilities and a more 
perfect plan, investigation for the " maximum alloy " was repeated, more refined 
work brought still more accurate results, and the composition was very accurately 
determined. 

. The invention of the method of investigation reduced the extent and cost 
of the research enormously, and it was described in various Journals and Trans- 
actions of societies, including the American Association for the Advancement of 
Science from 1877. The later work appeared in the " Transactions of the Ameri- 
can Society of Civil Engineers " and the " Journal of the Franklin Institute." 

Still another field of research entered upon very extensively was that of the 
friction of lubricated surfaces. For this work it also became necessary to invent 
a testing-machine, and this has been in constant use on both sides of the Atlantic 
since, and has performed a great amount of both commercial and research work. 

In the testing of steam engines and boilers, modern methods were brought 
into use, and their standardization and systematic and general employment were 
greatly promoted. The character and method of variation of engine-friction be- 
came generally known through the initiative of the Mechanical Laboratory. The 
first attempt to ascertain with accuracy the precise " quality " of the steam from 
the boiler was made, under its supervision, for a committee of the American In- 
stitute, in 1871, condensing all of the steam supplied from each of several type- 
forms of boiler, — shell and water-tube, — and measuring the total content of 
either moisture or superheat, thus securing a satisfactory check upon the later 
system of testing by sample. The work of the mechanical engineer was in fact sys- 
tematized and perfected in many ways by that bureau Veritas, and its influence 
has been continually greater and greater up to the present time, under the direc- 
tion and by force of the example of the talented men who have had direction of 
its work. 

Prof. Thurston represented the United States — and the Institute • — at the 
International Exposition at Vienna in 1873; was member both of the United 
States Scientific Commission at that Exhibition and of the International Jury; and 
he was fortunate enough to secure for the American exhibitors of machinery a 
very liberal proportion of the awards, including an chren diplom for George H. 
Corliss, the famous inventor, although that builder exhibited no engines of his 
own make. The argument that he was represented by almost every builder in 
Europe and in every section of the Exposition prevailed, and such distinguished 
authorities as M. Tresca, Professors Reuleaux, Hirsch. Dwelshauvers-Dery, and 
M. Schneider, the great French manufacturer, of Creusot, indorsed the claim. He 
was later made editor of the Reports to the U. S. Government on that Exhibition, 
and passed four large volumes through the press in ten months, two years hav- 



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ing- been the common estimate of the time to be required. He also edited the 
reports of the United States board appointed to test iron, steel, and other 
metals, writing a considerable portion of the two large volumes, and describing 
the extensive work of the Mechanical Laboratory in connection therewith. His 
three-volume work on the " Materials of Engineering " also consisted largely of 
matter obtained through researches conducted at the Institute, the detailed work 
being performed mainly by its students and alumni. His " History of the Growth 
of the Steam-Engine " was still another product of his labor during the 
earlier years of the Institute. It was based primarily upon lectures delivered in 
the courses inaugurated by President Morton for a general audience, and which 
in those days were attended by interested auditors from New York and other 
neighboring places. His treatises on the " Stationary Engine for Electric Light- 
ing " and " Friction and Lost Work " appeared while he was still a member of 
the Faculty of the Stevens Institute of Technology. His richest working years 
were those of his connection with the Institute, and their fruits continued to ap- 
pear even after his removal to another field, and his absorption into the later work 
of organization and administration of an offshoot of this pioneer institution com- 
pelled his attention more and more to an entirely different sort of enterprise. 

His service as a member of the United States commission to determine the 
causes of steam-boiler explosions occupied his time during the summer of 1875, ^^^ 
the only published accounts of that work in any detail were from his pen. 

Of some three hundred published papers on scientific and technical subjects, 
a large proportion of the most important and influential were issued in the course 
of the fourteen years of his connection with the Stevens Institute. 

In 1885 Prof. Thurston accepted a call from the Trustees of Cornell Uni- 
versity to organize a course in Mechanical Engineering for the Sibley College of 
Engineering and Mechanic Arts, then established. 

In 1865 he married Miss Susan T. Gladding, of Providence, R. I. She 
died in 1878, and two years later he married Miss Leonora Boughton, of New 
York. Prof. Thurston died suddenly at his home at Ithaca, N. Y., on his birth- 
day, October 25, 1903. 

He was a member and secretary of the New Jersey State commision to 
report a plan for encouragement of manufacturers of ornamental and textile fab- 
rics ; a member of the United States commission on safe and vault construction for 
the United States Treasury; of the New York State commission to report on a 
modern rifle for the National Gviard, and to examine and authorize voting-ma- 
chines. 

He was made Vice-President of the American Institute of Mining Engi- 
neers in 1878; Vice-President of the American Association for the Advancement 
of Science, at Nashville, in 1877, in the absence of Prof. Pickering, elected at 
the preceding meeting; was regularly elected to serve in 1878, at the St. Louis 
meeting of the Association, and in 1884 at Philadelphia, in which year he was 



214 THE STEVENS INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY 

also Honorary Vice-President of the British Association for the Advancement of 
Science. He was the first President of the American Society of Mechanical 
Engineers, 1880. He was a member of International Juries at Vienna, 1873, 
Paris, 1889, and Chicago, 1893. He was Officier de ITnstruction Publique de 
France, etc. ; an editor (for engineering) of " Science," of " Johnson's Cyclopedia," 
and of the " Century Dictionary." He was also connected with the following and 
other societies : The Franklin Institute, of Pennsylvania ; American Institute, of 
New York; American Society of Civil Engineers; Institution of Engineers and 
Shipbuilders of Scotland ; British Institution of Naval Architects ; Royal Institu- 
tion of Great Britain; Societe des Ingenieurs Civils de France; Verein Deutscher 
Ingenieure; Oesterreichische Ingenieur-und-Architekten Verein; United States 
Naval Institute ; Order of the Loyal Legion of the United States ; Naval Order of 
the United States ; Kongl. Svenska Vetenskap-Academien ; Societe Industrielle de 
Mulhouse; Societe d'Encouragement, etc., de France; American Metrological So- 
ciety; American Historical Society; National Geographical Society; Washington 
Academy of Sciences ; International Association for the Advancement of Science, 
Art, and Education ; and of the International Association for Testing Materials of 
Engineering, etc. 

Among his inventions are: the magnesium-ribbon lamp, a magnesium- 
burning naval and army signal apparatus, an autographic recording testing-ma- 
chine, a form of steam-engine governor, an apparatus for determining the value 
of lubricants, etc. 

He edited the following government volumes : 

" Reports of the United States Commissioners to the International Exhibition, Vien- 
na, 1873," and the " Reports of the United States Board Appointed to Test Iron and Steel, 
etc.," 1878-81. 

He was the author of : 

" Report on Manufactures and Machinery at the International Exhibition, Vienna, 
1873." 

" Introduction to the Reports of the United States Commissioners to the Vienna 
International Exhibition, Vienna, 1873." 

" Report to the United States Board on Investigation of the Properties of the Cop- 
per-Tin Alloys," 1879. 

" Treatise on Friction and Lubrication," 1879. 

" Manual of the Steam-Engine," also translated and published in French. 

"Materials of Engineering," comprising: "Part I. The Non-Metallic Materials of 
Engineering and Metallurgy," 1882-99 ;> " Part II. Iron and Steel," 1883-98; " Part III. The 
Alloys and their Constituents," 1884-1900. 

" Materials of Construction," 1884-1900. 

" Stationary Steam-Engines," 1885-89. 

"Treatise on Friction and Lost Work in Machinery and Mill-Work," 1885-98. 

"A Manual of the Steam Boiler: Design, Construction, and Operation," 1888-1901. 



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" A Hand-Book of Engine and Boiler Trials, and the Use of the Indicator and 
Prony Brake," also translated (by Roussel) and published in French. 

" Reflections on the Motive Power of Heat, and on Machines Fitted to Develope 
That Power." From the original French of N. L. S. Carnot, to which is appended Lord 
Kelvin's "Account of Carnot's Theory," 1890. 

" Heat as a Form of Energy," 1890. 

"Life of Robert Fulton," 1891. 

" History of the Steam Engine," 1878-1901, also translated by Hirsch and by Uhland 
and published in French and German respectively. 

The following is a list of some of his papers: 

"A New Marine Signal Light." Jour. Frank. Inst.^, 1866. 

" Losses of Propelling Power in the Paddle- Wheel." Ibid., 1870. 

" H. B. M. Ironclad ' Monarch '." Ibid., 1870. 

" British Iron Manufacturers." Ibid., 1870. 

" Experimental Steam Boiler Explosions." Ibid., 1872., 

" Trial of Steam Traction Engines by the Author." Ibid., 1873. 

" Temperatures, Pressures, and Volumes of Compressed Air." Ibid., 1874. 

" Consulting" Engineer's Report on the Design, Constrviction, and Anticipated Per- 
formance of the Stevens Ironclad." Pamphlet, 8vo. D. Van Nostrand, New York, 
1874. 

" On the Torsional Resistance of Materials, as Determined Experimentally by the 
Autographic Recording Testing Machine." Jour. Frank. Inst., 1873. 

" On a New Apparatus for Testing Lubricants." Railroad Gazette, 1873. 

" On the Effect of a Change of Temperature on the Resistance of Materials." Jour. 
Frank. Inst., 1873. 

" On the Increase of the Resisting Power of Metals under Stress." Ibid., 1873-74. 

" On the Accuracy of Rumford's Determination of the Mechanical Equivalent of 
Heat Energy." Trans. Am. Soc. Civ. Eng.', 1874; Jour. Frank. Inst., 1874. 

" On the Mechanical Properties of the Materials of Construction, and on Various 
Previously Unobserved Phenomena Noticed During Experimental Researches with a New 
Testing Machine Having Automatic Registry." Trans. Am. Soc. Civ. Eng., 1874. 

"Note on the Resistance of Materials" (Announcement of Discovery of Abnormal 
Elevation of Elastic Limit by Intermitted Strain). Ibid., 1875. 

" Note on the Resistance of Materials as Affected by Flow and by Rapidity of Dis- 
tortion." Ibid., 1876. 

" On the Rate of Set of Metals Subjected to Strain for Considerable Periods of 
Time." Ibid., 1876. 

" On the Mechanical Treatment of Metals and Methods of Exalting- the Elastic 
Limit." Metallurgical Rcviezv, 1877. 

"A New Method of Planning and of Representing the Results of Researches In- 
volving Three or More Elements." Trans. Am. Assoc. Adv. Sci^', 1877; Pamphlet, 8vo, 
1877. 

" Strength, Elasticity, Ductility, and Resilience of Cold-Rolled Iron and Steel." 
Pamphlet, 8vo, 1878. 

" On a New Method of Detecting Overstrain in Iron and Other Metals, and on Its 



Journal of the Franklin Institute." •' " Transactions of the American Society of Civil Engineers." 

■'' " Transactions of the American Association for the Advancement of Science." 



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Application in the Investigation of Causes of Accidents to Bridges and Other Structures." 
Trans. Am. Soc. Civ. Eng., 1878. 

" On a Newly Discovered Relation Between the Tenacity of Metals and Their Re- 
sistance to Torsion." Ibid., 1878. 

" Ueber die Natur der Elasticitatsgrenze und die Art Ihrer Veranderungen." Ding- 
ier' s Polytcchnisches Journal, 1877. 

" Plan for the Encouragement of Manufacturers of Ornamental and Textile Fab- 
rics." (Appendix to Report of New Jersey State Commission.) Pamphlet, 8vo, 1878. 

" New Determination of the Coefficients of Friction of Lubricated Surfaces, and 
on the -Laws Governing such Friction." Transactions of the American Institute of Mining 
Engineers, 1878. 

" On the Character of Physical Science, and on the Philosophic Method of Ad- 
vancement of Science." (Vice-President's Address before the American Association for 
the Advancement of Science, 1878.) Trans. Am. Assoc. Adv. Sci., 1878. 

" President's Inaugural Address Before the American Society of Mechanical En- 
gineers, 1880." Trans. Am. Soc. Mcch. Eng}, 1880-81. 

" The Strongest of the Bronzes." Trans. Am. Soc. Civ. Eng., 1881. 

" The Several Steam-Engine Efficiencies." Trans. Am. Soc. Mech. Eng., 1882. 

" Development of Theory of Steam-Engine." Jour. Frank. Inst., 1884. 

" Forms of Ship and Fish." Transactions, British Institution of Naval Architects, 
1887. 

" Friction Waste of Steam-Engines." Trans. Am. Soc. Mech. Eng., 1888. 

" Notes on Technical Education." Academy, 1888-89. 

"Address to British Institution of Civil Engineers in Behalf of Visiting Representa- 
tives of American Societies of Engineers." Trans. Brit. Inst. Civ. Eng.', 1889-90. 

" Effects of Strain in Metals and Their Self-Registration." Trans. Am. Soc. Civ. 
Eng., 1890-91. 

" Problem, of Air Navigation." Forum, 1890. 

" Builders of the Steam-Engine, etc." Patent Centennial Address, Washington, 
1891. 

" Scientific Basis of Belief." N. Am. Rev.\ 1891. 

" Final Improvement of the Steam-Engine." Proceedings of the Naval Institute, 



Reduction des Pertes de Chaleur dans les Machines a Vapeur." Rev. Gen. des Sci.*, 



»i- 



" L'Education Technique aux Etats Unis." Ibid., 1891. 

" Economics of Automatic Engines." lour. Frank. Inst., 1892. 

"' Thermal Analysis of Tandem Compound Engine." Ibid., 1893. 

" Technical Education in United States, Chicago Congress, 1893." Trans. Am. Soc. 
.Mech. Eng., 1893, etc. 

"Trend of Modern Progress." N. Am. Rev., 1895. (Also: "La Marche du Pro- 
gres aux Etats Unis." L' Industrie, 1896.) 

" Superheating Steam." Trans. Am. Soc. Mech. Eng., 1896. (Also: " Avantage de 
la Surchauffe." Bulletin de la Societe d' Encouragement, 1896. 

" Promise and Potency of High-Pressure Steam." Trans. Am. Soc. Mech. Eng., 



' Transactions of the American Society of Mechanical Engineers." 

' Transactions of the British Institute of Civil Engineers." 

' North American Review." * " Revue General des Sciences." 



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" Standards of Efficiency of Steam-Engines." Jour. Frank. Inst., 1896. 

" The Engineer and His War Engine." N. Am. Rev., 1897. 

" Quadruple Expansion Engine at 500 Pounds Pressure." Marine Engineering, 
1897-8. 

" The Animal as a Prime Motor." Smithsonian Report, 1896. 

" The Steam Engine at the End of the Nineteenth Century." Trans. Am. Soc. 
Mech. Eng., 1899. (Also: "La Machine a Vapeur a la Fin du XlXeme Siecle." Revue de 
Mechanique, 1900.) 

"A Century's Progress of the Steam Engine." Smithsonian Report, 1899. 

" The Steam Turbine." Trans. Am. Soc. Mech. Eng., 1900. 

" Recherches sur la Resistance des Materiaux, etc." Congres International des 
Methodes d'Essai, etc., Paris, 1900. 

" La Laboratoire Moderne et Son Evolution en Amerique." Congres International 
de Mechanique Appliquee, 1900. 

" Progress and Tendency of Mechanical Engineering in the United States in the 
Nineteenth Century." (Address before the V'/ashington Academy of Science.) Science, 
1901. 

" Trend of Professional Education." Bulletin, Board of Regents, New York State 
University, 1901. 

" Voting-Machines." Trans. Am. Soc. Mech. Eng., 1901. 

" The Manufacturing Industries." Transactions, Nczv England Cotton Manufactur- 
ers' Association, 1901. 

And many other papers and addresses. 



EDWARD WALL, A.M. 

Professor of English and Logic 

Edward Wall was born in Pictou, N. S., November 4, 1825. His parents, 
Peter and Margaret Barry Wall, were of English and Scotch-Irish lineage. His 
early education was obtained in New York. He was prepared for college by Prof. 
John J. Owen, the editor of school editions of the Greek Classics. In 1845 ^^^ '^^^ 
admitted to the Sophomore class of Princeton College, was graduated in 1848, and 
was the valedictorian of his class. He studied theology at the Seminary in Prince- 
ton, and was graduated in 185 1, in the latter part of which year he entered the min- 
istry of the Presbyterian Church. 

In 1852 he became pastor of a church in the northern part of the State of 
New York. After nearly ten years' service, the severity of the winter climate, and 
exposure incident to his work, caused an affection of the throat which led him to 
resign his charge. 

He was married to Miss Sara Berry, October 21, 1852. They have had 
four children, Eleanor Berry, Edward Barry, Albert Chandler, and George Lloyd 
Wall. Edward Barry died in 1894. 

During the Civil War he served as chaplain of the 3d New York Cavalry, 
and for three years he was pastor of a church in New Jersey. 



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In the beginning of 1870 he was appointed Professor of Belles Lettres in 
the Stevens Institute of Technology. It was a part of the plan of the Trustees 

of Stevens Institute to establish an Acad- 
emy of a high grade, where pupils might 
obtain the rec[uisite preparation for the 
Institute. Accordingly, after an experi- 
ment in developing a local school which 
had shared the benevolence of the 
founder of the Institute, the east wing 
of the Institute was built, and the Ste- 
vens School was organized in September, 
1872. 

Prof. Wall, in addition to his pro- 
fessorship in the Institute, became the 
I 'rincipal of the School ; and with the in- 
crease in the number of students in both 
the Institute and the School he has found 
abundant employment for his time and 
strength. 

From its foundation, the School, 
ROF. EDWARD ALL although It docs not share in the endow- 

ment of the Institute, has been successful. The east wing became inadequate for 
its accommodation, and in 1887-88 the present commodious building on River 
Street was erected. 

The course of instruction in Stevens School from the beginning embraced 
improvements in methods which are now generally recognized, one being the in- 
troduction of some branch of natural science in every class of the school ; ' the 
choice in each case, and the method of instruction, being governed by the grade 
of the pupils. Another feature is the teaching of two mathematical subjects at 
the same time. Thus, before arithmetic is finished, algebra is begun. In like man- 
ner geometry overlaps algebra, and trigonometry overlaps geometry. It is be- 
lieved that in this way progress is more rapid, and comprehension of the subject 
more complete ; that a student's mastery, for instance, of arithmetic is helped by 
his study of algebra. For some time Stevens School, according to the Report of 
the Bureau of Education of the United States, was the only secondary school 
in the country in which instruction in two branches of mathematics at the same 
time M'as practised. And even now it is sometimes difficult conveniently to grade 
students coming to Stevens from other schools, because this improvement has been 
iiitroduced. The good results which have followed the methods used in Stevens 
School, except in the residuum of the incorrigibly lazy and idle, who will not 
work, prove their value. 



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CHARLES WILLIAM MacCORD, A.M., Sc.D. 

Professor of Mechanical Drawing and Designing 

Charles William MacCord is of Scottish origin, being a lineal descend- 
ant of Hamish MacCord (called Sir James by the English), a Highland chieftain 
who fell at the Pass of Killiecrankie in 1689. 

His father, the Rev. W. J. MacCord, was stationed in the township of 
Northeast, Dutchess County, N. Y., where Charles William was born March 18, 
1836. The lad taught himself to read 
while very young, without the knowledge 
of his parents, who thereafter guided his 
early training until he became a student 
in the Amenia Seminary in 1847, where 
he prepared for college. 

Entering Princeton in 1852 as a 
" Sophomore half advanced," he was 
graduated as Bachelor of Arts in 1854, 
receiving in 1857 the degree of Master 
of Arts in course; and in 1881 his Alma 
Mater conferred upon him the degree 
of Doctor of Science. After leaving 
Princeton Mr. MacCord engaged in 
teaching, at first in one of the large edu- 
cational institutions near Schenectady, 
N. Y., and afterward in a private family. 
Having through his own exertions ac- 
quired the art of mechanical drawing, he 
obtained in 1858 a position as assistant draughtsman at the De Lamater Iron 
Works, New York, and while there his work attracted the attention of Capt. John 
Ericsson, who subsequently engaged him as his chief draughtsman. 

Mr. MacCord remained with Capt. Ericsson for nine years, from 1859 to 
1868; during which time he assisted that famous engineer in the construction of 
the Ericsson hot-air engine, of marine steam-engines, of implements of war 
and of apparatus for Ericsson's well-known researches in physics : but above all, 
Mr. MacCord achieved distinction for his work on the plans of the famous tur- 
reted ironclad " Monitor," the details of which were made in Capt. Ericsson's 
office. It was due, in a large measure, to Mr. MacCord's rapid and accurate ex- 
ecution of the working drawings of this vessel, that she was able to appear in 
Hampton Roads on the 9th of March, 1862, and check the victorious and seeming- 
ly invincible career of the " Merrimac," which had almost destroyed the Union 
fleet and was preparing to make a final move on New York. 




Prof.'C. W. MacCord 



220 THE STEVENS INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY 

In 1868 Mr. MacCord was selected as chief draughtsman in the construc- 
tion of the " Stevens Battery," then building at Hoboken, N. J., under the super- 
vision of Gen. George B. McClellan. In 1870 he became chief draughtsman for 
the Department of Docks, New York, of which Gen. McClellan was the chief 
engineer. 

In 1 87 1 Mr. MacCord was called to organize and take charge of the De- 
partment of Mechanical Drawing in the Stevens Institute of Technology. 

During the time that he was with Capt. Ericsson, his life was for the most 
part uneventful : but the monotony was sometimes broken by incidents of stir- 
ring interest. Many of these, naturally, occurred during the construction of the 
famous " Monitor " ; and the most exciting episode of all was that in which he 
was despatched, on a blustering winter morning, to superintend a change in her 
steering-gear. This, under the circumstances, was neither easy nor free from 
danger ; but his successful accomplishment of it was what enabled the " Monitor " 
to seize the golden moment of opportunity, to change the defeat of yesterday into 
the victory of to-day, and to revolutionize the naval warfare of the world. 

Once installed in his chair at the Stevens Institute, his long experience as 
a practical draughtsman amply qualified him for the routine work of giving in- 
struction in mechanical drawing; and he soon began to devote his leisure to the 
advancement of the literature not only of that subject, but of -descriptive geometry 
and kinematics, which also were included in his Department. 

A native inventive faculty, combined with a sense of mechanical propor- 
tion and of mechanical beauty which can be described only as intuitive, led him 
to design many models illustrating different parts of his work. Those shown in 




Adjustable Model Showing Six Geometrical Surfaces 

Piof. C. IV. MacCord 

the accompanying illustrations were originally " Olivier " models from Paris, in 
which the rectilinear elements of ruled surfaces were represented by silk cords kept 
taut by means of weights. The workmanship was excellent, but the proportions 
were very bad; and, as they one by one became unserviceable, Prof. MacCord. 



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with rare skill and patience, replaced them by others in which springs took the 
place of weights ; thus placing the Stevens Institute in possession of a set of mod- 
els, few in number, but absolutely unique in construction and design. 

Prof. MacCord was married, June 23, 1863, to Evelyn Holden. Three 




The Battle Between the " Monitor " and the " IMerrimac " ' 

The IVorkins Drawings for tlie " Monitor" were made by Mr. MacCord 

children were born to them, Katherine Stanley, Harry Holden, and Charles 
William MacCord, Jr. The latter son died in 1898. 

Prof. MacCord is a member of the American Society of Mechanical 
Engineers. He is the author of the following books : 

"Lessons in Mechanical Drawing," 1876-77; "Kinematics, or Practical Mech- 
anism " ; " Practical Hints for Draughtsmen " ; " Progressive Exercises in Mechanical Draw- 
ing " ; " Elements of Descriptive Geometry " ; " Velocity Diagrams, Their Construction and 
Their Uses." 

His contributions to the Scientific American Supplement include the fol- 
lowing : 

A series of five articles on "Teeth of Skew Bevel Wheels," Nos. 174-178; five 
articles on "Planetary Wheel Trains," Nos. 437, 441, 451, 470, 482; "Instruments for 
Drawing Curves," — Hyperbola, No. 530 ; Parabola, No. 535 ; Lemniscate, No. 574 ; Sinusoid, 
No. 703; Roulette Spirals, No. 743; Cycloids and Trochoids, No. 706; Witch of Agnesi, 
No. 730; Cissoid and Associated Curves, No. 758; Quadratrix and Subquadratrix, No. 768; 
Polar Harmonic, No. 796; ElHpse, No. 854. Also papers on " Rolhng Cams," Nos. 509, 
510; "Simultaneous Dead Points," Nos. 614, 617; a series of articles on "Radii of Curva- 
ture Geometrically Determined," — General Principles, Nos. 537, 538; Archimedean Spiral, 

1 Of course numerous so-called representations of this famous conflict were published at the time; but 
that given in the illustration, copied from one in Prof. MacCord's possession, is the only one which bears the 
true stamp of authority, the approval of Capt. Ericsson himself. 



222 THE STEVENS INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY 

No. 557; Cycloid, No. 558; Epicycloid and Epitrochoids, No. 563; Ellipse, 567; Path of 
Point on Connecting-Rod, No. 595; Path of Point on Piston-Rod of Oscillator, No. 678; 
Parabola, No. 680; Lemniscate, No. 681; Hyperbola, No. 709; Helix No. 732; Sinusoid 
No. 772 ; Conchoid No. 884. Also articles on " Point of Contrary Flexure." Conchoid, No. 

900 ; " Elliptical Gearing," No. 2 ; " Shaping- 

Machines — the Slow Advance and Quick 
Return Motion," No. 16; "A Mechanical 
Curiosity — New Form of Differential 
Wheels," No. 134; "Annular Wheels," No. 
291 ; " Equidistant Gear Cutters," No. 333 ; 
"A Novel Propeller Engine," No. 415; 
"Parallel Curves," No. 420; "A New Draw- 
ing Instrument — Villa's Pantagraph," No. 
424; "A New Lunarian," No. 447; "Gra- 
phic Processes Relating to the Logarithmic 
Spiral," No. 554; " Composite Gearing," No. 
695; " Spacing the Frets on a Banjo Neck," 
No. 794; "The Conic Sections," No. 803; 
"Mechanical Equivalents," No. 938; "A 
New Elliptical Lathe; " " A New Machine 
for Cutting out Elliptical Mats." 

The following papers were pub- 
lished by him in the American Artisan: 

" A New Drawing Instrument. The 
Protracting Centrolinead," XVIII, No. 6; 
" Spiral Gearing," XVIII, Nos. 7, 8; "The 
Rolling Hyperboloids," XIX, No. 5 ; " Im- 
agination in Mechanism," XIX, No. 5 ; " A 
New System of Lobed Wheels," XIX, Nos. 
II, 12. 

Prof. MacCord is the author of 
the following papers published in the 
Stevens Institute Indicator : 




Model Showing Intersecting Cones, and Arrange- 
ment OF Springs for Keeping Cords in Tension 
Prof. C. W. MacCord 



" Biographical Sketch of Capt. John Ericsson," VII, 2 ; "A Transparent Device Il- 
lustrating Oldham Coupling and Elliptic Chuck," X, 269 ; " A Curious Mechanical Move- 
ment," XIII, 15; "The Helical Convolute," XIII, 245; "Olivier Models Remodelled," 
XIV, i; series of articles on "Velocity Diagrams, Their Construction and Uses," XV- 
XVIII, subsequently published in book form; "Slow Advance and Quick Return Produced 
by Elliptical Wheels," XIX, 361. 

The following articles relating to Capt. John Ericsson are also from the 
pen of Prof. MacCord : 



"Ericsson's Home," Scientific American, LII, No. 5; "Ericsson and his Monitor," 
North American Review, October, 1889; "Ericsson's Methods of Work," American 
Machinist, XIII, No. 13. 



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223 



ALBERT RIPLEY LEEDS, Ph.D. 



Professor of Chemistry, 1871-1902 



Albert Ripley Leeds was born in Philadelphia June 27, 1843. He came 
of a line of Americans, many of whom were active in engineering and scientific 
pursuits The colonist of his name was 
the Surveyor-General of New Jersey in 
1680. 

After graduating from the Cen- 
tral High School of his native city in 
i860, he passed through the Sophomore 
year at Haverford College and then en- 
tered Harvard in 1861, taking the usual 
academic degree four years later. In 
February, 1865, previous to his gradua- 
tion, he was one of three candidates who 
creditably passed an examination ordered 
by the Board of Education for the Pro- 
fessorship of Physics and Chemistry in 
the Central High School, which was 
made vacant by the resignation of Prof. 
B. Howard Rand. He now became the 
Lecturer on Chemistry in the Franklin 
institute of Pennsylvania, and Professor 

of Chemistry in the Philadelphia Dental College. To these labors were added 
similar duties at Haverford College during the college year of 1868-69, his con- 
nection with the latter institution being marked by the raising of the funds neces- 
sary for the organization and equipment of a laboratory for chemical analysis 
and research. 

Not realizing until too late how great a strain upon health and strength 
the work and study incident to three such laborious positions would be, he was 
compelled to take rest in the autumn of 1869. He spent that year and the one 
following in European travel, and in study at the School of Mines and the Uni- 
versity of Berlin. 

In 1 87 1, when the Stevens Institute was to be opened, he was called to 
the Chair of Chemistry, a position he was destined to occupy for the remainder 
of his life, contributing actively to the success of the graduates by his instruc- 
tion, and inspiring them with his own zeal for original investigation. The same 
year he had married Miss Margaret West, the great-granddaughter of Gen. Reed, 
first President of the State of Pennsylvania. Their home in Hoboken was always 




224 THE STEVENS INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY 

a charming resort for his colleagues as well as for the students, who will ever 
cherish the memory of their genial hospitality. 

Prof. Leeds at once took charge of the installation and equipment of the 
chemical laboratory, and laid out the course of instruction on broad and practi- 
cal lines which have stood the test of time, many of the students having met with 
distinguished success in positions demanding both engineering and chemical know- 
ledge. 

During the earlier years of his connection with the Institute Prof. Leeds 
devoted himself to investigations in mineralogy and analytical chemistry. A 
number of his papers on lithology were published in the " American Journal of 
Science," and about thirty papers on analytical subjects appeared in Fresenius's 
" Zeitschrift," the " Chemical News," and elsewhere. Subsequently he turned his 
attention to general and organic chemistry and investigated more particularly 
the properties of ozone and peroxide of hydrogen, and the action of these bod- 
ies, as well as of chlorine, and the oxides of nitrogen upon the members of the 
benzene and naphthalene groups. Many papers were likewise published upon 
the action of light upon the various haloid compounds of the metals. These led to 
the publication of a method for the measurement of the varying actinism of sun- 
light and other sources of illumination when passing through absorbent media 
like the earth's atmosphere. This method was republished in the English " Phil- 
osophical Magazine." 

In this connection Prof. Leeds made a number of careful analyses of 
the atmosphere, and was thus led into investigations connected with sanitary 
chemistry. In 1881 he was made a member of the newly created State Board of 
Health of New Jersey, in which capacity he continued to the last to investigate 
the adulteration of foods, the purity of waters, the hygienic condition of the 
schools, the disinfection of steamships and railroad cars, etc. He also served con- 
tinuously as chairman of the Board's committee of analysts, and as one of the 
four public analysts of the State. 

In 1873 Prof. Leeds was requested by the authorities of Jersey City to 
report upon its water supply, and somewhat later he was asked by the water depart- 
ments of that city and of Newark to act as their chemist. This led to an exam- 
ination of the water supplies, not only of these two cities, but eventually of most 
of those in the State of New Jersey. 

In the winter of 1881 the water supply of the city of Philadelphia be- 
came unusually foul and offensive. The inquiry into the causes of this condition, 
which was referred to Prof. Leeds for investigation, showed that it was due to 
the presence of volatile products of putrefaction, the oxygen normally present in 
water having largely disappeared and gaseous products of decay having taken 
its place. This inquiry and his subsequent connection with the work during the 
survey for a new water supply (see " Philadelphia Water Reports " 1881-85) led, 
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supplies as a means of aiding or effecting their purification. This method was in- 
troduced into the water-supply systems of Hoboken and surrounding towns in 
1884, since which time there has been no recurrence of the former foul tastes 
and odors due to the excessive multiplication of certain algse. The same system 
was introduced by its author at Brockton, Mass., Norfolk, Va., and many other 
localities, and has become the settled practice in water-supply engineering. 

Prof. Leeds was thus led into connection with public work in many 
cities such as Albany, N. Y., Wilmington, Del., Reading, Pa., New London, 
Conn., Minneapolis, Minn., and into engaging in the incorporation of systems of 
filtration as part of effective water-works management. The last considerable in- 
quiry of this character was into the offensive condition of the water supply of 
Brooklyn. It extended through several years and included hundreds of micro- 
scopical and bacteriological as well as chemical analyses. The trouble was found 
to be due to the enormous multiplication of one species of diatomaceous algae. 

The degree of Doctor of Philosophy, honoris causa, was conferred upon 
Prof. Leeds by the University of New Jersey in 1884. For several years he 
acted as presiding officer of the American Chemical Society, and in 1886 he was 
made a corresponding member of the British Association for the Advancement 
of Science. He was also a member or fellow of the German Chemical Society, 
the Academy of Sciences of Philadelphia, the American Association for the 
Advancement of Science, and of other scientific bodies. 

The loss of his first wife in 1887 was a great blow to Professor Leeds, 
and a great misfortune came upon him in his later years in the form of a grow- 
ing deafness which gradually led to his abandonment of class-room recitations; 
but he continued to deliver his valuable lectures until a few weeks before his 
death, which occurred at his home March 13, 1902. 

In 1 89 1 he married Miss Anne Webb, daughter of William H. Webb, 
secretary of the Reading Railroad, who, with two daughters, survives him. 

The following is a complete list of his scientific memoirs : 

" Spectroscopic Examination of Silicates." Am. Chem^, III, 446. 

" The Volumetric Determination of Chlorine with Standard Silver Solution and 
Potassic Chromate." Ibid., Ill, 290. 

" The Alteration of Albite and Genesis of Deweylite." Ihid., IV, 164. 

"Contributions to Mineralogy, with Analyses of: i. A Hydrous UnisiHcate Ap- 
proaching Pyrosclerite. 2. Talc Pseudomorphous after Pectolite. 3. Leucaugite from Am- 
ity, N. Y. 4. Mineral Associated with Corundum and Approaching Ripidolite. 5. Moonstone 
from Media, Delaware County, Pa. 6. Antholite from the Star Rock, Concord, Delaware 
County, Pa. 7. Wernerite from Van Arsdale's Quarry, Bucks County, Pa." Am. Jour. 
Sci:, 1873. 

" Aventurine Orthoclase." Ihid., 1872. 

" The Dissociation of Certain Compounds at Very Low Temperatures." Ihid., 1874. 

" Magnesia-Iron Tremolite." Ihid., 1875. 

1 "American Chemist." ^ "American Journal of Science." 



226 THE STEVENS INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY 

" Mittheilungen aus dem Chem. Laboratorium des Stevens Institute of Technology. 
Notiz iiber Zinkwasserstoff, Reducirende Wirkungen des Wasserstoffs, speciell auf Silber- 
nitratlosung." Bcrichtc der Deutsch. Chem. Gesell., pie Jahrgang, No. i6; Jour. Chem. 
Soc.\ 1876. 

" Enlarged and Reduced Photographs of Two Hundred Fractures of Alloys of Cop- 
per and Tin, Broken by Transverse, Longitudinal, and Torsional Strains; with Lecture 
Illustrations of the Same Accompanied by Catalogue and Physical Description." For pub- 
Hcation by the United States Board Appointed to Test Iron, Steel, etc. 

" Contributions to the Chemistry of Hydrogen." Am. Chem., 1876. 

" Upon the Reduction of Silver at Ordinary Temperatures in the Presence of Free 
Nitric Acid." Ibid., 1876. 

" Recent Progress in Sanitary Science." Ibid., 1877. 

" A New Test Reaction for Zinc, and Other Laboratory Notes." Ibid., 1877. 

" Neue Methode der Eisenoxydulbestimmung in Silicaten, Welche in den Gewohn- 
lichen Mineralsauren Unloslich Sind." Zcitschrift fiir Anal. Chemie, 1877. 

"Notes upon the Lithology of the Adirondacks." Read December 11, 1876, before 
the New York Academy of Sciences. Am. Chem., 1877; Report of the Regents of the Uni- 
versity of the State of New York, 1877. 

" Determination of Ferrous Oxides in Silicates." Read January 8, 1877, before the 
New York Academy of Sciences. Am. Client., 1877. 

" Analytische Beitrage." Zeitschrift fiir Anal. Chemie, 1878. 

" New Method for the Estimation of Combined Carbon in Iron and Steel." Proc. 
Am. Chem. Soc.', 1878. 

" Constitution of the Atmosphere. Atmospheric Ozone. Collection and Preserva- 
tion of Ozone. Critical Examination of Methods at Present in Use in Ozonometry. New 
Method for the Generation of Ozone. Action of Ozone upon the Coloring Matters of Flow- 
ers." Ann. N. Y. Acad. Sci.", 1878. 

" Discovery of Nitric Acid in Normal Urine, and Upon the Results of Aeration and 
Ozonation." Proc. Am. CJictn. Soc, 1878. 

" The Spectra of Certain Metallic Compounds." Jour. Frank. Inst.*, LX. 

" Contributions from the Laboratory of the Stevens Institute of Technology, i. The 
Alteration of Standard Ammonium Chloride Solution when Kept in the Dark. 2. The 
Titration of Hydrochloric Acid for Chlorine, and of Sulphuric and Nitric Acid for Hy- 
ponitric Acid. 3. The Determination of Nitrates. 4. Action of Potassium Permanganate 
upon Oxalic Acid." Proc. Am. Chem. Soc., 1878. 

" Contributions from the Laboratory of the Stevens Institute of Technology, i. Sol- 
ubility of Ozone in Water. 2. Action of Ozone upon the Coloring Matter of Plants. 
3. Bleaching of Sugar Syrups by Ozone. 4. Reduction of Carbonic Acid by Phosphorus 
at Ordinary Temperatuf-es. 5. Oxidation of Carbonic Oxide by Air over Phosphorus at 
Ordinary Temperature." Jour. Am. Chem. Soc, 1879. 

" Ozone and the Atmosphere." Read before the American Lyceum of Natural His- 
tory, April 9, 1878. 

" Ammonium Nitrite, and the By-Products Obtained in the Ozonation of Air by 
Moist Phosphorus." Ihid., 1879. 

" Some Additional Notes on Ozone, i. Comparative Results Obtained with Pre- 
vious Electrical Ozonisers, with Description of a Modified and Powerful Form. 2. Prep- 
aration of Ozone by Chemical Methods. 3. Hydrogen Peroxide and Sulphuric Acid. 



' Journal of the Chemical Society." ^ " Annals of the New York Academy of Science." 

' Proceedings of the American Chemical Society." * " Journal of the Franklin Institute." 



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4. Non-Production of Ozone in the Crystallization of Iodic Acid. 5. Action of Ozone upon 
Organic Substances. 6. On the Action of Ozone on Carbonic Acid. 7. Reduction of Car- 
bonic Acid by Phosphorus at Ordinary Temperatures — Correction of an Erratum." Ibid., 
1879. 

" Ueber den Einfluss von Volum und Temperatur bei der Darstellung des Ozons mit 
der Beschreibung Eines Neuen Ozonators." Annalcn der Chemie, Band. 198, 26ten Maerz, 
1879. 

" Influence of Light upon the Decomposition of Iodides." Jour. Am. Chem. Soc, 
1879. 

" Ueber die Entdeckung und Bestimmung der Salpetrigen Saure im Trinkwasser, in 
Sauren, etc." i. Mit Metadiamidobenzol. 2. Mit Jodkalium." Zeitschr. fiir Anal. Chemie, 
XVIII. 

" The Production of Peroxide of Hydrogen, as Well as Ozone, by the Action of 
Moist Phosphorus upon the Air." Ann. N. Y. Acad. Sci., II, No. i. 

"Peroxide of Hydrogen and Ozone." Jour. Am. Chem. Sac, 1880. Two papers. 

" The Production of Ozone by Heating Substances Containing Oxygen." Ibid., 
1880. 

"Action of Hyponitric Anhydride on Organic Bodies. i. Action upon Benzene. 
2. Action upon Naphthalene. 3. Action upon Cymene." 

" Laws Governing the Decomposition of Equivalent Solutions of Iodides under the 
Influence of Actinism." Jour. Am. Chem. Soc, 1880. 

" Action of Light on the Soluble Iodides, with the Outlines of a New Method in 
Actinometry." Ibid., 1880. 

" The Compounds of the Aromatic Bases with Metallic Salts, with a Note upon 
Thiocarbanilide. Compounds with Aniline. Compound with Paratoluidine." J our. Am. 
Chem.. Soc, 1881. 

" The Invariable Production, Not Only of Ozone and Llydrogen Peroxide, but also 
of Ammonium Nitrate, in the Ozonation of Purified Air by Moist Phosphorus." Ibid., 1881. 

" The Action of Oxygen, Ozone, and Nascent Oxygen upon Benzene." Ibid., 1882. 

" The Direct Conversion of the Aromatic Amides into Their Corresponding Azo- 
Compounds." Ibid., 1881. 

" The Adulteration of Food, Drink, and Drugs, from the Chemist's Standpoint ; and 
the Attitude of Chemists in the Matter of Appointment of Government Analysts." Ibid., 
1881. 

"A Method for the Analysis of Mustard." Ibid., 1881. 

" Oenantholanilin, Oenantholxylidin, und Oenantholnaphtylamin. Cryptidin. Den 
bei der Distillation von Ricinusol im Vacuum Erhaltenen Unloslichen Riickstand. Acrol- 
einureid mit Bemerkungen zu Hugo Schiff's Mittheilungen iiber Condensirte Ureide." 
Berichte der Deutsch. Chem. GeselL, 1882. 

"The Conversion of Carbon Monoxide to Carbon Dioxide by Active (Nascent) 
Oxygen." Jour. Am. Chem. Soc, 1883. 

" Benzureide." Ibid., 1884. 

" Atomation (2d paper) . Atomation of Oxygen at Elevated Temperatures, and 
the Production of Hydrogen Peroxide and Ammonium Nitrite, and the Non-Isolation of 
Ozone, in the Burning of Purified Hydrogen and Hydro-Carbons in Purified Air." Ibid., 
1884. 

" The Chemistry and Clinical Value of Sterilized Milk." Am. Jour. Med. Sci^, 
June, 1891. 

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228 THE STEVENS INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY 

" Liquid Peptonoids." Medical News, May 30, 1896. 
" Acetic Acid in Vinegar." Jour. Am. Chem. Soc, 1895. 
" Bacteria in Milk Sugar." Ihid., 1896. 

" Standard Prisms in Water Analysis, and the Valuation of Color in Potable Wa- 
ters." Ibid., 1896. 

" Quantitative Estimation of Micro-Organisms." Stevens Indicator, 1897. 

The following is a complete list of his technical papers and reports : 

" Water-Supply of Jersey City." Board of Public Works, 1873. 
■ " Spang Collection of Minerals." Science Monthly, 1874. 
" Water-Supply of Hudson County." New York State Sanitary Association, 1878. 

" Water-Supply of State of New Jersey." Jour. Frank. Inst., 1878. 

" Relative Purity of the City Waters in the United States." Jour. Am. Chem. Soc, 
1879. 

" Adulteration of Food." New York State Board of Health, 1881. 

" Papers upon Industrial Chemistry. Analysis of Soaps." Chemical News, 
XLVIII, 67. 

" Reports on Pollution of Passaic River." Newark Aqueduct Board, 1881, 1882, 1883. 

" Report on Water-Supply of City of Wilmington, Del." 1882. 

" Scientific Examination of Foods." 1882. 

" Investigation of the Schuylkill Water-Supply." Report to Philadelphia City Coun- 
cils, 1883. 

" Physical and Chemical Analysis of Flour." Jour. Am. Chem. Soc, 1883. 

" Infant Foods." Transactions of the College of Physicians of Philadelphia, 1883 ; 
Med. News, 1883. 

" Chemical Investigation of Water-Supply of Philadelphia." Reports to Water De- 
partment, 1883, 1884, 1885. 

" Chemical, Biological, and Experimental Inquiry into the Water-Supply of the 
City of Albany." Jour. Am. Chem. Soc, 1885. 

" Aeration of Water." Transactions of the American Society of Civil Engineers. 
1885. 

" Purification of Water-Supply of Cities." Jour. Frank. Inst., 1886. 

" Origin and History of the Epidemic of Typhoid Fever at Mount Holly, New 
Jersey." Medical News, 1887. 

" Hardness of Waters." American Water Works Association, 1887. 

" Mechanical Aeration of Water." Stevens Indicator, 1892. 

" Water Bacteria." Am. Jour. Med. Sci., 1893. 

" Official Dairy Inspection and Sanitary Milk Control." Annals of Hygiene, 1893. 

" Report to New Jersey Dairy Commission on Milk," 1894. 

" Modified Milk and Sterile Milk." Am. Jour. Med. Sci., 1895. 

" Dangerous Condensed Milk." Ibid., 1895. 



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229 



CHARLES FREDERICK KROEH, A.M. 

Professor of Modern Languages 

Charles Frederick Kroeh, the only child of his parents, Karl August 
and Sophie Katharine (Ossmann) Kroeh, was born in Darmstadt, Germany, 
March 28, 1846. During the revolutionary times of 1848 his parents left Ger- 
many for the United States, settling in Baltimore and afterward in Philadelphia, 
where he received his early education, 
first in German private schools and then 
in the public schools. 

While a student in the Philadel- 
phia Central High School (forty-fourth 
class) his fondness for physics and chem- 
istry brought him to the notice of Prof. 
B. Howard Rand, who encouraged his 
scientific studies by making him his assist- 
ant in the High School laboratory and 
also in preparing his lecture experiments 
in the Franklin Institute and Jefferson 
Medical College. During his last year 
at the High School he employed his 
evenings and vacations in completing a 
course in business at Bryant & Stratton's 
Business College. In 1864 he was grad- 
uated, standing second in his class, and 
delivered the salutatory address in French 
at the Commencement. Shortly afterward he lectured on electricity in Bryant & 
Stratton's College and on chemistry in the Friends' School, Salem, N. J. 

In the fall after his graduation he was appointed assistant to the Profes- 
sor of German at his alma mater, a post which he resigned after one year, in 
order to engage in the manufacture of inks. In September, 1866, he left this 
business to fill the position of assistant editor of the " Philadelphia Demokrat," his 
chief duties being the selection and translation of news from English into 
German. The training in accuracy and rapidity acquired in translating and con- 
densing long Congressional reports and Presidential messages proved invaluable 
afterward. 

In March, 1868, he accepted the instructorship of French and German 
in Lehigh University, South Bethlehem, Pa. His services were also required in 
Bishopthorpe Seminary. At the same time he gained a command of Spanish, 
Portuguese, and Italian, besides continuing his Latin studies and working in the 
chemical laboratory. 




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230 THE STEVENS INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY 

In July, 1 87 1, shortly before the opening of the Stevens Institute of 
Technology, he was appointed Professor of Languages. The departments of Belles 
Lettres and Languages had been included in the course of the new insti- 
tution by President Henry Morton at the suggestion of Mr. S. Bayard Dod. In 
the first announcement (1871) of the Institute he found the following wise words 
which have since been reprinted without material change in each succeeding cat- 
alogue : 

" The French and German languages will be an essential part of the course of in- 
struction, since they are of incalculable value to the engineer and man of science as the 
vehicles of a vast amount of new information in his special subjects, and also afford that 
kind of mental culture which mathematical and physical science, if followed exclusively, 
would fail to supply. . . . This (the Department of Languages) will include a thorough 
course of instruction in the French and German languages, by which the student will be 
enabled to read, write, and speak in both of these, so that every means of acquiring 
information which they can afford will be thrown open to him." 

Prof. Kroeh felt bound to work out a course that would fulfil the require- 
ments of the preceding paragraph, which he regarded as the terms of his com- 
mission. Encouraged by the atmosphere of original research which pervaded the 
new Faculty, and dissatisfied with the text-books (Fasquelle, Otto, Peissner, 
Chapsal, etc.) of those days, he at once set to work to discover better means of 
presenting the various subjects connected with the acquisition of languages, such 
as pronunciation, declensions, verbs, sentence-building, and derivations ; to prepare 
lectures on language and literature ; and to collect material for scientific and tech- 
nological reachng for the higher classes. 

In 1876 he began to manifold his exercises for the different classes, and 
in this way gradually developed methods of instruction and freely tested them by 
experiment in the class-room. In 1882 Prof. Kroeh's treatises on the pronuncia- 
tion of French, the Pronunciation of German, and the French Verb, had assumed 
a permanent form and were then printed for the first time. 

Prof. Kroeh's activities as a teacher may be roughly divided into three 
periods. During the first he was engaged in improving existing methods of 
teaching grammatical subjects, with the view of quickly acquiring a reading 
knowledge. The books already mentioned, as well as his " First German Reader " 
and "Die Anna-Lise," belong to this period. He' realized the desirability of 
teaching students to speak, but did not believe it could be done in class. 

During the second period he proceeded upon the theory that the organs 
of speech should be trained to fluency. He held that students should be enabled 
to understand French and German when they are read aloud to them, and also 
to read these languages with correctness and fluency. To accomplish these results 
in the limited time provided, grammatical study had to be reduced to its lowest 
terms. This method of procedure is fully described in the catalogue of 1876. 

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of the " Leitfaden," by Prof. Gottlieb Heness, which convinced him that speak- 
ing can be taught in the class-room. He immediately began to master the method 
and to construct a course suitable for the Institute. It took about three years of 
steady work to study his languages over again from their simplest beginnings, in 
order to make them self-explanatory to his classes. A full description of this so- 
called " natttral method " is found in a paper read by Prof. Kroeh before the Mod- 
ern Language Association in 1886, which Prof. Heness called the best he had 
ever seen. With a view to further study, he visited the Sauveur Summer School 
of Languages in Oswego in 1887, and the Amherst School in 1888, and taught in 
the Burlington School in the summer of 1889. 

His experience in these schools and in the Institute was that the pupils 
learned better by this than by any other method to understand spoken French, 
German, etc., and to frame answers to some extent; but they did not seem to 
acquire in any sense a command of these languages. Now it happened that while 
he was describing the working of this " natural method " to the Modern Lan- 
guage Association, Prof. Kroeh made a very simple but important discovery as 
applied to the " natural method " of teaching. By this method the teacher handles 
certain objects and performs certain actions, which he describes, say in French. 
The pupils passively associate word and thing, word and action, etc. They learn 
in this way to understand the foreign words without the medium of English, but 
not to use them. The discovery Avas that the pupils themselves ought to perform 
these actions while speaking the sentences which describe them. They should 
convert their passive, listening attitude into an active, speaking one. From the 
time they rise until they retire, they should say the French for all their actions. 
They should live in French. Thus was born the " Living Method for Learning 
How to Think in French," etc. 

Soon after coming to the Institute Prof. Kroeh reached the conclusion 
that it was better to know a few languages thoroughly than many in a superficial 
way. Hence he acquired only one more besides those already mentioned. In 
1877, while engaged in a controversy with his friend J. Mason Child on the 
authenticity of the Fourth Gospel, he reviA'ed the study of Greek, which he had 
begun in his boyhood. 

He never abandoned his interest in his scientific studies. During the 
early years of the Stevens Preparatory School (1876-1892) he not only taught 
French and German there, but frequently supplied the places of instructors in as- 
tronomy, physical geography, etc. 

In 1880 he read an essay on the Structure of Matter before the New York 
Academy of Sciences. In 1881, when he moved to Orange, N. J., he took up the 
subject of mathematics and spent some time in the solution of problems in that 
science. In 1893 his knowledge of chemical manipulations came into play through 
a translation he had made three years before and which was produced in a case 
of patent litigation. His experimental work won the case for his clients. 



232 THE STEVENS INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY 

From 1872 to 1881 he spent his summers on a farm near Pocomoke City, 
Md., where he had abundant opportunity to apply his chemical knowledge to prac- 
tical agriculture. Here he also became interested in scientific bee-keeping which 
he afterward pursued as a recreation from teaching and writing. Beginning with 
a few colonies of bees on his place in Orange in 1882, he had increased them to 
over ninety by 1887, when he was obliged to abandon this fascinating avocation 
owing to the pressure of other work. From 1882 to 1884 he held the office of 
Treasurer of the New Jersey and Eastern Bee Keepers' Association. 

He is a thorough believer in out-door exercise and attributes his ability to 
do a vast amount of literary work to the restorative effects of bicycling. He has 
been a wheelman since 1883. 

Having become interested in the Tonic-Sol-Fa method of teaching the art 
of singing by note when he read Helmholtz's great work on Sound, Prof. Kroeh, 
together with Mr. J. O. Ward, of Orange, succeeded in 1885 in organizing a 
large popular singing class under the leadership of Prof. Theodore F. Seward, 
for the purpose of fostering and improving congregational singing in the churches 
of all denominations. 

During his residence in Hoboken, Prof. Kroeh was a vestryman of Trinity 
Church, and he has held the same office in Grace Church, Orange, since 1886, 
serving for many years as Chairman of the Music Committee. During some of 
his vacations he acted as lay reader in Pocomoke City, Md., and he conducted 
Bible classes for many years in Grace Church Sunday School, Orange, and during 
the summers of 1894 to 1897 at Point o' Woods, Long Island, where he established 
a summer school for the purpose of bringing his methods of language-teaching 
to the knowledge of teachers. 

Although taking no active part in politics, Prof. Kroeh has always rec- 
ognized the claims of civic duty, and has resisted by speech and pen the influ- 
ence of political intrigue in educational matters and the encroachments of trolley 
and other monopolies on the rights of the people. 

He has been corresponding secretary of the Orange branch of the Indian 
Rights Association, and treasurer of the Educational Union. He is a member 
of the Modern Language Association, of the Nationaler Deutsch-Amerikanischer 
Lehrerbund, and of the New England Society of Orange, N. J. He has been the 
secretary of the Stevens Faculty from its first meeting. 

In 1872 Prof. Kroeh married Miss Julia Phillips, of La Porte, Ind., and 
their union has been blessed with one daughter, Jenny Rose, and one son, Karl 
F. Kroeh. 

Prof. Kroeh's writings consist of text-books, memoirs, reports, and liter- 
ary, scientific, and technological translations. The titles of his books follow : 

" The First German Reader." 1875. D. Appleton & Co., New York. 
" Die Anna-Lise German Reader, with Notes." 1882. D. Appleton & Co., New 
York. 



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" The Pronunciation of French." 1884. PubHshed by the Author. 

" The Pronunciation of German." 1884. Pubhshed by the Author. 

"The French Verb." 1885. Published by the Author. 

" The Pronunciation of Spanish." 1888. Published by the author. 

" The Living Method for Learning How to Think in French." 1892. Published 
by the Author. 

" The Living Method for Learning How to Think in German." 1893. Published 
by the Author. 

" The Living Method for Learning How to Think in Spanish." 1894. Published 
by the Author. 

" Descripciones Cientificas." 1893. Published by the Author. 

" Three- Year Preparatory Course in French." 1897-99. Macmillan Co., New York. 

" Syllabi for Courses in French and Spanish." 1902. Home Correspondence School, 
Springfield, Mass. 

Prof. Kroeh is also the author of the following original articles: 

" Lightning Rods." Sci. Am.^ August 16, 1873. 

" Recent Developments in Quantitative Spectrum Analysis." Ibid., November 22, 

1873. 

" Recent Progress in Electromagnetism. The Gramme Machine." Ihid., December, 
6, 1873. 

"Methods of Measuring High Temperatures." American Artisan, January 11, 18, 
25, 1875. 

"A New and Important Mineral (Utah Mineral Wax)." Sci. Am., February 22, 
1879. 

"New Minerals (Huntilite, Animikite)." Sci. Am. Supp.^ March i, 1879. 

" The Dzierzon Theory." Beekeepers' Magazine, New York, April, 1882. 

" Parthenogenesis in Bees." American Bee Journal, Chicago, April 12, 1882. 

" What It Is to Read Music." Sci. Am. Snpp., June 7, 1884. 

" Methods of Teaching Modern Languages." Read before the Modern Language 
Association. Ihid., March 31, 1888. 

"A Spanish Poet (Trueba)." Christian Union, May, 1890. 

" Memorial of Marshall Shepard." New England Society of Orange, N. J., 1896. 

" Memorial of James S. Cox." Ihid., 1901. 

■' Obituary of Albert R. Leeds." Stevens Institute Indicator, 1902. 

Prof. Kroeh's reports and translations of literary, scientific, and technical 
subjects are so numerous that their titles alone would occupy several pages of 
this book. They are published in the " Reports of the Smithsonian Institution," 
Washington; " Poggendorff's Annalen der Physik und Chemie," Berlin; 
" Comptes Rendus de I'Academie des Sciences," Paris ; Liebig's "Annalen der 
Chemie " ; " Moniteur Scientifique " ; " Report of the United States Iron and Steel 
Board " ; " Scientific American " ; "American Artisan " ; " North American 
Review " ; and the literature of patent litigation. 

^ " Scientific American." ^ " Scientific American Supplement." 



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THE STEVENS INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY 



de volson wood, c.e. 



P?'ofessor of Mechanical Engineerings iSS^-iSgy 



De Volson Wood, son of Julius and Amanda (Billings) Wood, was born 
near Smyrna, N. Y., in 1832. His early education was that of the public school, 
with an additional six weeks in a private academy and two terms in Cazenovia 
Seminary. In 1849 he began teaching, with which he was occupied until his 

death, his subsequent education being re- 
ceived while he was himself instructing. 
Mr. Wood's first charge was at 
Smyrna, his native town, where he taught 
for three terms. Desiring to continue 
his education, he then went to the Al- 
bany State Normal School, continuing, 
however, his work as instructor, and 
graduated thence in 1853. He then ob- 
tained his first position as principal, in the 
Napanoch School, Ulster County, N. Y., 
and there commenced teaching one 
week after his graduation. Returning 
to the closing exercises of the Albany 
Normal School during a week of vaca- 
tion, the first he had had since beginning 
to teach in 1849, Mr. Wood was greeted 
by the principal with the ofifer of an 
assistant professorship in mathematics. 
This offer he accepted, and at the beginning of the next scholastic year Prof. Wood 
(as he now became) was a member of the Faculty of the school from which he 
had graduated one year before. 

Still being desirous of extending his studies, after a year at the Albany 
Normal School he went to the Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, Troy, in 1855, en- 
tering the Junior class, but still did not give up teaching, as the Preparatory De- 
partment of the Institute was being organized at that' time, and he was asked to 
take charge of the mathematical studies of the Preparatory students. He was 
thus enabled to pay for his entire educati'on by the proceeds of his teaching. On 
graduating at Troy with the degree of Civil Engineer, Prof. Wood went West, 
although in rather troublous times, with introductions from the principals of the 
Albany and Troy schools, hoping to obtain a position in Chicago. Advised by a 
friend to go by way of the Lakes instead of by rail, he stopped for a few days 
at Detroit, and went to see the University of Michigan buildings at Ann Arbor. 
After hearing President Tappan, of that University, lecture, Prof. Wood intro- 




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duced himself, and Avas told of the nonappearance of a recently appointed Profes- 
sor of Civil Engineering. He consented to take the Professor's place for a few 
days and remained there fifteen years, receiAn'ng during that time the honor- 
ary degrees of A.M. and M.Sc. from Hamilton College and the University of 
Michigan respectively. During this time he organized the Department of Civil 
Engineering at Ann Arbor, which is still a noted one and retains evidences of his 
work, and among the since prominent men then under him were Brush of electric 
fame and Prof. Webb of the Stevens Institute. A record of Prof. Wood's journey 
westward, the queer chance which led to the obtaining of his University of Mich- 
igan professorship, and his trials, financial and otherwise, in his early work there 
before he attained his status as a professor, would form an interesting history. 

At about the time when the original building of this Institute was 
completed, Prof. Wood, by invitation of President Morton, came down to look 
over the prospects of the new venture. Shortly after his return to Ann Arbor he 
received an offer of a professorship of Mathematics and Mechanics, and a desire 
to return East made him at once accept. The Faculty of the University of Michi- 
gan, however, on hearing of his acceptance, at once increased his salary by $500 
and personally escorted him to a telegraph office that he might telegraph a recall 
of his acceptance. Events in the ensuing year, however, caused Prof. Wood to 
resolve that a repetition of such an offer should not be passed over so lightly, 
so a second offer from the Stevens' Trustees one year later caused his ad- 
vent in 1872 to this Institute, where he faithfully labored until his death, June 
2^, 1897. 

Possibly the greatest satisfaction to Prof. W^ood was the success he had 
in the class-room. Many of his pupils returned, 3rears after graduation, to compli- 
ment him on his success. Mr. Brush, the electrician, has said : " Prof. De Vol- 
son Wood got more genuine study out of me than any other teacher I ever was 
under." The "American Mathematical Monthly " said : 

" The civil, mechanical, and electrical engineers, architects, railroad managers and 
presidents, college professors and presidents, etc., who formerly were Prof. Wood's stu- 
dents, and who now are scattered over the whole world, would, if simultaneously rounded 
up, form the most intelligent army that ever moved on the face of this mundane sphere." 

Some years ago Prof. Wood went on a trip through New Mexico and Col- 
orado, and in the whole course of his journey he found that he only stopped at 
one place where he could not have been immediately identified at a bank by one 
of his former pupils. 

Prof. Wood was married in September, 1859, to Cordera E. Crane, who 
died in June, 1866. One child was born to them. In August, 1868, he married 
Fannie M. Hartson, by whom he had six children. 

Prof. Wood was a member of the American Society of Civil Engineers 
from 1 87 1 to 1885, '^"d a member of the American Association for the Advance- 



236 THE STEVENS INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY 

ment of Science from 1879 to his death. He was the vice-president of this latter 
Association in 1885. He was a member of the American Mathematical Society, 
and an honorary member of the American Society of Architects. He was also a 
member of the American Society of Mechanical Engineers; the first president of 
the Society for the Promotion of Engineering Education; and was the engineer 
of the Ore-Dock, Marquette, Michigan, in 1864. He was the inventor of " Wood's 
Steam Rock-Drill," 1866 and later; and he was also the inventor of other ma- 
chinery. Comparatively late in life, he took up the subject of thermodynamics, 
upon which he wrote a standard book. 

The following text-books and articles in encyclopsedias were written by 
Prof. Wood: 

" Trussed Bridges and Roofs." 250 pp. New York, 1872. 

Revision^ of " Mahan's Civil Engineering." 589 pp. New York, 1873. 

American edition^ of "Magnus's Lessons on Elementary Mechanics." 312 pp. Lon- 
don and New York, 1876. 

" A Treatise on the Resistance of Materials." 314 pp. New York and London. 
3d edition, 1877. 

" Elements of Analytical Mechanics." New York. 1876. Revised edition. New York, 
1877. 

" Elements of Co-ordinate Geometry, Including Quaternions." 329 pp. New York, 
1879. 

" Foundations." Johnson's Encyclopaedia. New York, 1875. 

"Dynamics." Appleton's Cyclopaedia of Applied Mechanics. New York, 1879. 

" Key and Supplement to Elements of Mechanics," and " Key and Supplement to 
the Mechanics of Fluids," 1884; "Trigonometry," 1885; "Thermodynamics," 1887, enlarged. 
1889; "Turbines," 1895. 

" Technical Education in America." American Supplement to Encyclopaedia Bri- 
tannica, 1897. 

The many papers and articles written by Prof. Wood are listed as follows : 

" New Method of Alligation Alternate." New York Teacher, 1855. 
" The Coursing Joint Curve of an Oblique Arch in the French System." Mathemat- 
ical Monthly, I, 208, 279. February, 1859. 

" Triangular Beams." Jour. Frank. Inst./ XLI, 198. 1861. 

" Momentum and Vis Viva." Ibid., XLIV, 351. 1862. 

"Problems of Open-Built Beams." Ibid., XLIV, 385. 1862. 

"Problems of Beams." Ibid., XLV, 256. 1863. 

" Beams of Uniform Strength." Ibid., XLVII, 28. 1864. 

" Work, Vis Viva, and Momentum." Ibid., XLVII, 84. 1864. 

" Resistance of SoHd Bodies." Ibid., XLVII, 100. 1864. 

"Omissions in a Closed Survey." Ibid., XLVII, 159. 1864. 

" Trussed Arch." Ibid., XLVII, 223. 1864. 

"Hydrostatic Trough." Ibid., XLVII, 289. 1864. 



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"General Problem of Trussed Girders." Ibid., XLVIII, 1864. XLIX, 97, 308. 
1865. L., 3. 1865. 

" Work and Vis Viva." Ibid., XLIX, 27, 385. 1865. L, 177. 1865. 

" Moment of Inertia of Surfaces." Ibid., LI, 91. 1866. 

" Cambered Bridge versus the Arch." Ibid., LII, 15. 1866. 

" Drilling-Machines at the Hoosac Tunnel." Ibid., LIV, 83. 1867. 

" Friction Grip." Ibid., LIV, loi. 1867. 

" Strains on Trussed Bridges." Railway Times, XXI, 1-4, April 17, 1869. 

" Problem of the Rafters." Jour. Frank. Inst., LXIII, 100. 1872. Van N. Ec. Eng. 
Mag^, VI, 223. 1872. 

" Neutral Axis in Deflected Beams." Ibid. 1873. 

" Backwater Caused by Dams in Streams." Trans. A. S. C. E?, July, 1873. 

" Bridge Pins." Van N. Ec. Eng. Mag., IX, 504. 1873. 

" On Courses of Instruction in Civil Engineering." Ibid. 1874. 

" On the Position of the Neutral Axis in Deflected Beams." Ibid., XII, 365. 1875. 

" Force." Ibid., XVI, 28, 420. 1877. 

" Beams of Uniform Strength." Ibid., XVI, 564. 1877. 

"Solutions to Problems." Mathematical Visitor, 1877-1881. Nos. 14, 15, 59, 60, 62, 
75, 78, 84, 87, III, 113, 116, 117, 120, 131, 133, 136, 139, 145, 147, 175, 176, 183, 184, 188, 192. 

" Momentum and Vis Viva." Van N. Ec. Eng. Mag., XVIII, 33, 241. 1878. 

" Stresses in Eye Bars." Trans. A. S. C. E., pp. 189-192. 1878. 

" Flow of Water in Rivers — -The Tortuous Path of a Particle." Ibid., July, 1879. 

" Theory of Transverse Strength of Beams." Ibid. 1879. 

"Absolute Zero of Temperature." Van N. Ec. Eng. Mag., XXII, 168. 1880. 

" Second Law of Thermodynamics." Jour. Frank. Inst., LXXXV, 347. 1883. 
LXXXVII, 228. 1884. American Engineer, April 6, 1883. 

" Cheapest Point of Cut-Off." Jour. Frank. Inst., LXXXVII, 5, 321. 1884. 

"Turbines." Ibid., LXXXVII, 412. 1884. 

" Luminiferous ^ther." Ibid., XCII. 1886. 

" A Deduction from the Principle, ' The Moment of the Momentum,' in the Case of 
Turbines." Ibid., XCIII, 21, 128, 196. 1887. 

" Thermodynamics." Ibid., XCIX, 128, 196, 298. 1887. 

" An Authority." Stev. Ind.\ IV, 21. 1887. 

" The Strength of Iron as Affected by Tensile Stress while Hot." (Abstract of Pa- 
per read before the American Association for the Advancement of Science, August, 1887.) 
Ibid., IV, 207. 1887. 

"The Mechanical Equivalent of Heat." (Reprinted from the Railroad and Engineer- 
ing Journal, February, 1888.) Ibid., V. 1888. 

" Efficiency." Ibid., VI, 272. 1889. 

" Expansion of Timber Due to the Absorption of Water." Trans. A. S. M. E., X, 
539- 



Some Properties of Ammonia." Ibid., X, 627. 1888-89. 

Some Properties of Vapor and Vapor Engines." Ibid., X, 648. 1888-89. 

Formulas for Saturated and Superheated Vapors." Ibid., 670. 1888-89. 

Test of a Refrigerating Plant." Ibid., XI, 830. 1889-90. 

The Graphic Representation of Thermal Quantities." Ibid., XI, 997. 1889-90. 

^ " Van Nostrand's Eclectic Engineering Magazine." 

' " Transactions of the American Society of Civil Engineers." 

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238 THE STEVENS INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY 

" Chimney Draught." Ihid., XI, 974. 1899-90. 

"Some Properties of Ammonia" (Second Paper). Ibid., XII, 133. 1890-91. 

"Mechanical and Physical Properties of Sulphur Dioxide (SO2)." Ihid., XII, 137. 
1890-91. 

"Theoretical Investigation of the Efficiency of Vapor Engines." Ibid., XII, 155. 
1890-91. 

"The Flexure of Thin Elastic Rings." Ibid., XII, 911. 1890-91. Stev. Ind., VIII, 
13. 1891. 

"Effect of Machinery upon Labor." Mcch. V.^ March 15, 1891. 

"Rotation of the Earth on Its Axis." Ibid., 285, September i, 1891. 

"A Pine Stick and the Sun's Density." Ibid., XXII, 387, November i, 1892. 

"Test of a Pulsometer." Trans. A.S. M. E., XIII, 211. 1891-92. 

" Properties of the Saturated Vapor of Ammonia." Stcv. Ind., IX, 140. 1892. 

" Examinations." Ibid., IX, 150. 1892. 

" Negative Specific Heat." Trans. A. S. M. E., XIV, 75. 1892-93. 

" Hydraulic Reaction Motors." Ibid., XIV, 266. 1892-93. 

" Engineering Education." Railroad Gazette, XXVI, 577, August 24, 1894. 

" Flotation versus Aviation." Aeronautics, I, 161, September, 1894. 

" Analysis of the Tremont Turbine." Trans. A. S. M. E., XVI, 707. 1894-95. 

" The Strength of Iron as Affected by Tensile Stress while Hot." Ibid., XVI, 739. 
1894-95. 

" Universities." Stcv. Ind., XII, 51. 1895. 

" The Turbine of the Niagara Pov^'er Company." Ibid., XIII, i. 1896. 

" Address to the Senior Class at the Opening of the Term, September 23." Ibid., 
XIII, 405. 1896. 



WILLIAM ERNEST GEYER 

Professor of Physics 

William E. Geyer ^Yas born in 1848 at Naumberg, in the northern part 
of New York State. In 1858 the family removed to New Brunswick, N. J., 
where young Geyer had the advantage of excellent schoohng. In the higher 
classes he was impressed by a course in elementary physics and chemistry. His 
spare time and money, which before had been largely devoted to water-wheels, 
windmills, and the like, were now given to making simple philosophical appara- 
tus. Erom 1864 to 1869 he attended the College of the City of New York. 
Although giving most attention to his favorite studies, other subjects were not 
neglected, so that he graduated with the highest honors and was at once offered a 
position as assistant in chemistry at Bellevue Hospital Medical College. 

The surroundings and atmosphere of a medical college were, however, not 
to his liking. In 1870, when the Stevens School was established, he applied for 
and obtained the position of Instructor in Mathematics and Natural Science. 
President Morton, perceiving Prof. Geyer's devotion to science, at once invited 

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him to spend his spare time at the Institute building, which was at that time near- 
ly completed. As the apparatus for the new Institute gradually arrived, and as 
new forms of it were developed, there began for him a great era of experimen- 
tation and investigation, which has been continued with but slight interruptions to 
the present day. Very little of this work 
has been published, however, for, tui- 
fortunately, perhaps, as far as popular 
reputation is concerned, the results of 
these numerous and various investigations 
were embodied in reports to corporations 
and courts in patent litigations. Many 
original observations and discoveries could 
not be made public until the cases were 
decided, and on account of the slow course 
of the law this was generally too late for 
publication. 

In connection with another class 
of patent litigation Dr. Geyer was called 
upon to follow up the subject of chemical 
synthesis as involved in the manufac- 
ture of artificial dye-stuffs. In a few 
years he made himself conversant with 
the theory and practice of this difficult 
subject, so that he ranks to-day among the best-informed color chemists of this 
countr}^ A few years ago one of his clients, the representative in this country of 
the largest aniline color works in the world, arranged to have Dr. Geyer spend 
some time in the " research laboratories " of their factory on the Rhine. On his 
return a letter was received from the Director of this laboratory, one of the first 
chemists of the time, saying that he had found Dr. Geyer already so proficient m 
the general subject that there had been little or nothing for them to teach him. 

Largely as a recognition of his necessarily unpublished investigations, 
the Institute in 1880 conferred upon him the degree of Doctor of Philosophy. 

When, in the early 'eighties, electricity suddenly sprang into prominence, 
the Stevens Institute became a Mecca for inventors who had ideas to develop, and 
for capitalists who wanted inventions tested. In all these tests Dr. Geyer took a 
prominent part, so that in 1884, when it was considered desirable to establish 
a separate Chair of Applied Electricity, he was deemed the fitting occupant. 

When the Department of Applied Electricity was first established, the 
time allotted to it was very moderate. But Prof. Geyer, creating more work for 
himself year by year, and surrounding himself with assistants equally enthusiastic 
and industrious, gradually pushed the Department to a point of prominence and 
to a degree of efficiency second to none in the Institute course. 




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240 THE STEVENS INSTITUTE' OF TECHNOLOGY 

Shortly after the death of Prof. Mayer in 1897, Dr. Geyer was asked to 
take charge of the Department of General Physics, his work in the Department 
of Applied Electricity being somewhat moderated by his assistants, so that his title 
became Professor of General Physics and Applied Electricity. 

On the death of President Morton in 1902, the lectures which he had deliv- 
ered naturally fell to Dr. Geyer, as did also a physical laboratory course which 
it was considered desirable to give our students earlier than it had been done here- 
tofore. . The burden thus becoming too great. Dr. Geyer, at his request, was relieved 
from work in the Department of Applied Electricity, so that now his title is Pro- 
fessor of Physics. 

Dr. Geyer married Miss Emilia K. Sauer, June 7, 1901. 



JAMES EDGAR DENTON 

Professor of Engineering Practice 

James Edgar Denton was born of New England parents, in 1855, at 
Piermont, New York, which was then the eastern terminus of the Erie Railroad, 
his father being employed as master blacksmith by the above-named company. 

In 1858 the family moved to New England, to enable the father to enter 
the millwrighting business in Cambridgeport, Mass. At the opening of the Civil 
War the father joined the Blacksmith Corps at the Watertown Arsenal, and was 
soon appointed to the charge of the large smithshops built there for the manu- 
facture of gun-carriages. The family therefore settled in Brighton, Mass., in 
whose public schools the son received his education up to about twelve years of 
age. He was then withdrawn from school for a time, and worked for a year 
in a sewing-machine repair-shop in Boston until the family removed to Jersey City 
to enable the father to return to the service of the Erie Railroad Company, to 
take charge of one of their shops. 

After a couple of years spent in a Jersey City public school, young Denton 
attended the Bryant & Stratton Business College in New York, as a preparation 
for some college course of study. His parents had always desired him to follow 
the engineering profession, and about this time the prospectus of the Stevens In- 
stitute attracted their attention. Accordingly the son. was entered there as a mem- 
ber of its first regular class in 187 1. He passed through the regular four-year 
course, graduating in 1875. 

During his college career he was always an ambitious and fairly success- 
ful student, but found time to take a prominent part in all the kinds of athletics 
then in vogue, serving as captain of the football and baseball teams, and as a 
member of the college crew in its six-oar shell races. 

After graduation he entered the personal service of Prof. Thurston, then 
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of the testing work carried on by Prof. Thurston as a separate department 
known as the Mechanical Laboratory. To this work he added, in 1878, the instruc- 
tion in mathematics at the High School. 

In 1879, during about a year's illness of Prof. Thurston, he took tempo- 
rary charge of the Engineering Department, and organized a systematic course 
of shop practice, which developed the in- 
sufficiency of the Institute's shop facilities 
and induced Dr. Morton to donate to the 
Institute the means for equipping the 
workshops with most of their present ap- 
pliances, and to provide a regular corps 
of shop instructors. 

In 1880 Mr. Denton laid before 
Dr. Morton a plan for supplementing the 
theoretical instruction in engineering by 
a series of experimental exercises de- 
signed to give the student an opportunity 
of testing for himself the truth of the 
principles and formulae which the text- 
books represent as governing the design 
and operation of practical machinery. 
This led to the organization of the course 
of experimental exercises given to the 
Senior students in the Summer, or Prelim- ^°^' ^ ' 

inary Term of the Institute, which was commenced w ith the Class of 1881 in the 
summer of 1880, and was the first systematic effort to provide a course of in- 
struction of this kind, aiming to cover examples of all the principal applications 
of the theoretical matter covered in mechanical engineering courses. 




of rock-drilling machinery, and was finally thereby led to engage in the construc- 
tion of the new Croton Aqueduct tunnel, about three miles of which were con- 
structed under his direction and with drills of his own construction, which secured 
a record for the most rapid rate of excavation ^ reached during the construction 
of the new Aqueduct. During this period he divided his time between his 
engineering business and the supervision of the workshop and experimental 
instruction of the Institute. 

In 1886, having acquired a considerable experience in practical engineer- 
ing, Mr. Denton commenced a series of lectures to the Senior classes, designed 
to illustrate the value of the theoretical laws of mechanics in engineering prac- 
tice by means of actual instances where theory had been importantly applied; 



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242 THE STEVENS INSTITUTE OE TECHNOLOGY 

and this work, together with the direction of the workshop and experimental in- 
struction, was made to constitute the Department of Experimental Mechanics, the 
professorship of which was at this time awarded to him. 

In the management of this Department Prof. D. S. Jacobus became asso- 
ciated with him, and they developed its resources together until 1898, when Prof. 
Denton succeeded Prof. Wood in the Chair of Mechanical Engineering. 

As the occupant of these chairs of the Faculty, Prof. Denton made many 
experimental in\'estigations, which have furnished new data regarding the physics 
of engineering, and at the same time have contributed important facts to engi- 
neering practice. 

He has also carried on a large amount of technical work for the general 
public Avho apply to the Institute, as a seat of authority, for expert service and in- 
formation, which has enhanced its reputation and enabled his instruction to keep 
in touch with practice. 

Professor Denton is a member of the American Society of Mechanical En- 
gineers; American Society of Civil Engineers; American Institute of Mining 
Engineers; American Institute of Electrical Engineers; American Association 
for the Advancement of Science; Society for the Promotion of Engineering 
Education; Society of Naval Architects and Marine Engineers; New England 
Water Works Association; Engineers' Club of New York; Delta Tau Delta 
fraternity; Baltusrol, Morris County, and Madison golf clubs. He was also 
a member of the World's Fair Commission on the Jury of Awards in Engi- 
neering at Chicago in 1893, and at St. Louis in 1904. 

Important examples of his public work are as follows : 

A complete test of the performance of absorption refrigerating machines, which, 
until his investigation was published, were not considered capable of competing with the 
more modern type of compression refrigerating machines. 

A complete test of the economy of the famous Pawtucket pumping-engine, whose per- 
formance marked an era in the use of compound steam-engines for mill purposes in this 
country. 

An extensive set of experiments ' on the effect of speed upon the economy of steam- 
engines of moderate speed; which furnishes important data regarding the laws of cylinder 
condensation. 

A series of tests of the economy and capacity of an ammonia refrigerating ma- 
chine of the compression type, in which the amount of anhydrous ammonia circulated was 
measured, thereby exposing for the first time the important effect of the use of the am- 
monia cylinder in reducing the amount of fluid circulated below that due to the theoreti- 
cal displacement of the piston. 

Experiments with an ammonia absorption machine to verify the conclusions of 
theory regarding the superior economy of this type of machine for producing very low 
temperatures. 

Investigation to determine the possibilities of the Patten sulphuric-acid absorption- 
system for making ice in a vacuum. 

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THE FACULTY 243 

Test of the Holden system for making ice by freezing it in thin fihns, and compres- 
sing the latter into cakes. 

Lecture on refrigeration before the Massachusetts Society of Arts. 

A series of investigations of the mechanical properties of lubricants by laboratory 
tests with special apparatus, supplemented by the observance of the behavior of lubricants 
in practice on many kinds of machinery, leading to the determination of the limit of pres- 
sure to which oil can be subjected, and the discovery of an important principle regard- 
ing the cause of the relative value of pure mineral oil, and mixtures of mineral and animal 
oils, in practice, and to the establishment of the practical value of the element of viscosity 
in lubricants. 

Measurement of the friction of pistons of steam-engines as a means of testing 
cyhnder lubricants. 

Principle of action of cooling compounds, sulphur, or emery, when appHed to cure 
the overheating of journals. 

Vice-President's address to the American Association for the Advancement of Sci- 
ence, on the " History of Attempts to Determine the Relative Value of Lubricants by Me- 
chanical Tests." 

Photographic study of jets of steam as a means of judging the amount of moisture 
by their appearance to the eye. 

Determination of the primary cause of the erratic behavior of throttling calori- 
meters. 

Test of the Laketon pumping-engine with and without jackets, resulting in a meth- 
od of analyzing the various elements of loss in multiple-expansion steam-engines. 

Analysis of the performance of four leading types of pumping-engines. 

A series of experiments with ferryboats propelled by double screws, leading to a 
method of calculating the loss of efficiency due to the use of a bow screw. 

Investigation to determine the cause of an abnormal amount of condensation in one 
cylinder of a quadruple-expansion marine engine. 

Tests of two Staten Island ferryboats with radial and feathering paddles, to com- 
pare their performance with that of double-screw ferryboats. 

Progressive trials of the yacht " Sovereign." 

Complete test of the performance of the twin-screw steamer " City of Lowell." 

Investigation to determine the cause of the wreckage of the low cylinder of a com- 
pound engine, resulting in the exposure of a peculiar action of water lodged in an un- 
jacketed receiver. 

Tests to determine the cause of increase of economy of boiler furnaces by admit- 
ting heated air above the fire. 

Tests to determine the liability of gasoline vapor to ignite at considerable distances 
from an open fire. 

Verification of the German experiments on the economy of the Diesel motor. 

Investigation of the relative value of Texas oil and various coals as fuel, and of 
the danger attending the use of the oil in power plants. 

Specifications for the direct-current versus alternating systems of electric lighting 
for the New York City Insane Asylum at Central Islip, N. Y. 

Specifications for rewiring the New York City Insane Asylum at Ward's Island. 

Investigation of the cause of the explosion of the receiver of an air-compressor. 

Report^ on the strength and merits of the Brown wire-wound five-inch gun. 

Theory of the hquefaction of air. 

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244 THE STEVENS INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY 

Tests of the Curtis steam turbine to determine its economy at various stages of its 
development by a new principle for absorbing-dynamometers invented by Prof. Webb. 

Test of the performance of the steam-turbine yacht " Revolution," by a new princi- 
ple of transmitting dynamometry invented by Prof. Webb. 

Tests of steam turbines to obtain data for determining their applicability to ocean 
liners. 

Lecture on the construction of the New York Aqueduct before the New Eng- 
land Water Works Association at Providence, Altoona Lyceum, and the Franklin In- 
stitute. 

Lecture on the improvement of the economy of steam-engines between 1840 and 
1895, before the New England Water Works Association at Fall River and the Brooklyn 
Lyceum. (Published in the "Engineering News.") 

Report to Providence Electric Power Co. on the profit available by abandoning the 
use of the condensers of their multiple-expansion engines, in order to devote the exhaust 
steam to the heating of the business buildings of Providence. (" Engineering Record.") 

Comparative tests of the efficiency of chain versus chainless bicycles. 

Tests of strength of frozen silt, and estimate of cost of freezing a section of the 
bed of the Hudson River for the purpose of tunnelling it. 



JOHN BURKITT WEBB, C.E. 

Professor of Mathematics and Mechanics 

J. BuRKiTT Webb, son of Charles Roe and Eliza Ann (Greaves) Webb, 
was born in Philadelphia, November 22, 1841, of English parents, who settled 
in America about 1820. He entered the Philadelphia high school at the age of 
thirteen; and developed a talent for mathematics, penmanship, and drawing, and 
a strong taste for the study of natural philosophy. 

His father was an amateur machinist and inventor, working among 
steam-engines, pumps, windmills, etc., and young Webb, although kept at work 
in a store for some years after leaving school, was always in pursuit of mechan- 
ical and physical problems. He fixed up a small workshop in the loft of the store, 
and spent his spare daytime in it, and his evenings with a melodeon, which he 
taught himself to operate with some skill. Various constructions were under- 
taken with fair success in his amateur shop, such as a steam-engine, a machine 
for winding copper wire with silk, an air-pump, windmill, etc. 

His father having patented a windmill, he set himself at the problem of 
determining the speed and angle of sails giving the maximum efficiency, and 
thereby was led to study Hutton's Mathematics, Loomis's Calculus, and other 
works on higher mathematics. 

Finally he left the store and went to Bridgeton, N. J., where, with Mr. 
Oberlin Smith, now President of the Ferracute Machine Co., he formed a small 
company to make an electro-magnetic apparatus for playing organs automatically. 
The enterprise proved too great, however, for the means at hand, notwithstanding 
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Mr. Webb then went to work in a pipe-mill, and built a trip-hammer which 
ran many years and greatly expedited a part of the manufacture. The war then 
broke out, and business at Bridgeton became so dull that he sought employment 
for a year and a half with a medical journal in Philadelphia, meanwhile studying 

in the evening at the Franklin Institute 

Drawing School. 

In the summer of 1863 Mr. Webb 
again started in business at Bridgeton in 
partnership with Mr. Smith, building- 
special machine tools. He also taught 
music and drawing at the Church School, 
and acted as organist in churches at 
Bridgeton and Vineland. 

The tool business at Bridgeton 
continued to grow, and has since been 
absorbed by the Ferracute Machine Co. ; 
but about 1869, being in ill health from 
the climate, Mr. Webb felt the need of 
a change and decided to attempt a good 
scientific education. He accordingly en- 
tered the University of Michigan in Feb- 
ruary, made up entrance conditions in a 
few months, and became so strong a stu- 
dent of mathematics as to be credited with assistance by Prof. Olney in the preface 
to the latter's work on the Calculus. He skipped a class by extra work, and after 
graduation was engaged as assistant in the civil engineering department, then un- 
der charge of Prof. De Volson Wood. 

In 1871, at the solicitation of the former Assistant Professor, S. W. Rob- 
inson, who then occupied the Chair of Mechanical Engineering at the Illinois 
State University, Prof. Webb accepted the charge of the Civil Engineering School, 
newly established in that institution, which school soon became one of the most 
prosperous and best-attended departments of the university. He held this posi- 
tion eight years, during which time he made a trip to Europe for the inspection 
of scientific schools and for the purchase of apparatus, started a small astronomi- 
cal and meteorological observatory for the school, delivered several courses of 
original lectures, partially developed his method of treating bridge stresses, and 
constructed various pieces of apparatus. 

On April 19, 1876, he married Mary Emeline Gregory, eldest daughter of 
Hon. John M. Gregory, the president of the university, a lady of high scholarly 
attainments and literary tastes. Six children, all now living, were born to them; 
their names are, Margaret, Gregory Burkitt, Dudley Lankester, Hubert Greaves, 
Harold Worthington, and Carolus Roe Webb. 




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246 THE STEVENS INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY 

In 1879, after spending a year in Europe with his family on leave of ab- 
sence, he resigned his professorship to pursue a course of advanced scientific 
study abroad, and spent over two years longer attending lectures on pure math- 
ematics, mathematical physics, logic, etc., and in experimental work in physical 
laboratories at Heidelberg, Gottingen, Berlin, and Paris, making the acquaintance 
of Professors Quincke, Schering, Schwarz, Listing, Riecke, Lotze, Clausius, Kirch- 
hoff, Helmholtz, Tresca, Jamin, and others. A year was spent in Helmholtz's 
laboratory constructing apparatus for, and working at, the then undeveloped ac- 
tion of an oscillating current through coils of wire and electrolytic solutions, with 
which considerable progress was made. His skill with tools secured him the priv- 
ilege of using the apparatus in the instrument-maker's shop of the University, 
and before leaving Berlin he was made a member of its Mathematical Society. 
Nearly a year was spent in Paris attending lectures at the Sorbonne and Col- 
lege de France, and in examining technical schools, collections and methods 
there and in other parts of France, preparatory to assuming the duties of a new 
professorship. 

Hon. Andrew D. White was then United States Minister to Germany, and 
president of Cornell University, and Prof. Webb was through him appointed in 
1880 to a new Chair of Applied Mathematics at Cornell University, the active 
duties of which he assumed in the fall of 1881. During his occupancy of this 
Chair Prof. Webb delivered original courses of lectures on thermodynamics, 
mechanism, drawing, and drawing instruments; acted as judge at the International 
Electrical Exhibition of 1884; invented a draught gauge which was officially used 
at this exhibition, and an inertialess steam-engine indicator which excited much 
attention at the American Association meeting at Montreal, and published an ex- 
haustive article on " Belting to Connect Shafts Which Are Not Parallel and Do 
Not Intersect." This paper attracted the favorable notice of Prof. Reuleaux, of 
Berlin, the leading modern authority on pure mechanism, who caused it to be 
translated and published in Germany. 

Prof. Webb was called to his present position in 1886, to succeed Prof. 
Wood, who then assumed the Chair of Engineering vacated by Prof. Thurston. 
He is a member of the American Association for the Advancement of Science, 
American Society of Mechanical Engineers, American Mathematical Society, Con- 
gregational Club of New York, University of Michigan Round Table, and Point 
o' Woods Yacht Club. 

In 1888 Prof. Webb originated his " Floating Dynamometer " (patent- 
ed), which is a most convenient and perfect device for measuring the power given 
out or absorbed by motors, dynamos, and other machines. In 1892 he invented 
the " Viscous Dynamometer " (patented), which is an absorption dynamometer de- 
pending on fluid friction, or viscosity, between rapidly moving surfaces. It is es- 
pecially adapted for use with high speeds and is remarkably simple, convenient, 
and compact. In 1900 he invented the " Dynamophone " (to be patented), 



THE FACULTY 247 

which is a transmission dynamometer measuring the twist of a shaft carrying 
power, by a simple telephonic method of great accuracy and reliability. 

Prof. Webb has written numerous technical papers, many of them at the 
request of advanced students of mechanics, who have felt that his rare powers of 
analysis were needed to clear up or advance the subjects treated. The principle 
of determining bridge stresses and strains, originating with Prof. Webb, and given 
in a course of lectures to each Senior class, is a very general method of truss anal- 
ysis. The paper on " ' Overhauling ' of a Mechanical Power " exposed the fallacy 
of an important practical law regarding hoisting-tackle which had been announced 
by one of the best British authorities on mechanics. The lectures on mechanical 
paradoxes involved the use of much new and ingenious apparatus, designed (and 
in some cases made) by Prof. Webb for the purpose, including a large-sized self- 
acting gyroscope. 

A complete record of the subjects of papers and lectures by Prof. Webb 
is given in the subjoined list: 

" Belting to Connect Shafts Which Are Not Parallel and Do Not Intersect." Trans. 
A. S. M. E}, III, 22; IV, 165; American Machinist^ August 12, 1882. 

" Method of Eliminating the Personal Equation in Transit Observations." Proc. 
A. A. A. S.\ XXXI, 118. 

" Method of Cutting Screws of Increasing Pitch." Ibid., XXXI, 314. 

" Indicator Attachment for High Speeds." Ibid., XXXI, 316. 

"Ueber Riemenleitung auf geschrankten Achsen." Verhandlungen des Vereins zur 
Beforderung des GewerbUeisses, Mai, 1885. 

" Descriptive Geometrical Treatment of Surfaces of the Second Degree." Proc. A. 
A.A.S., XXXII, 93. 

" Conic Sections in Descriptive Geometry." Ibid., XXXII, 93. , 

" Regularity of Flow in Double-Cylinder Rotary Pumps." Ibid., XXXII, 173. 

" Improvements in Shaping-Machines." Ibid., XXXII, 173. 

" New Form of Steam-Engine Indicator." Trans. A. S. M. E., IV, 182. 

" Reuleaux's Kinematic Models." Ibid., IV, 367. 

"Rules for Conducting Boiler Tests" (Discussion). Ibid., V, 277. 

" Second Law of Thermodynamics." Vice-Presidential Address before Section D of 
the American Association for the Advancement of Science. Proc. A. A. A. S., XXXIV, 
143- 

" Proceedings of the Section of Mechanical Science." Section D of the American 
Association for the Advancement of Science, Philadelphia Meeting. Science, September, 
26, 1884. 

"Economy of Accurate Standards." Proc. A.A.A.S., XXXIV, 158. 

" Entropy." Ibid., XXXIV, 86. 

"The Lathe as an Instrument of Precision." Ibid., XXXIV, 156. 

" The Life of the Universe." Ibid., XXXIV, 86. 

" Polar versus Other Co-ordinates." Ibid., XXXIV, 51. 

1 " Transactions of the American Society of Mechanical Engineers." 

* " Proceedings of the American Association for the Advancement of Science." 



248 THE STEVENS INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY 

" Report on Steam Boiler Trials " (Discussion). Trans. A. S. M. E., VI, 322. 

"Technical Training" (Discussion). Ibid., VI, 525. 

" A Simple Form of. Draught Gauge." Officially adopted at the International Elec- 
trical Exhibition at Philadelphia, Pa., 1884, and pubHshed in its Report and in the Frank- 
lin Institute Journal, June, 1885. 

" Entropy as a Physical Quantity." Proc. A. A. A. S., XXXV, 105. 
."Maximum Stresses on Bridge IncHnes." Ibid., XXXV, 183. 

" Rankine's Thermodynamic Function*." /&iaf., XXXV, 107. 

" Second Differentials and Equicrescent Variables." Ibid., XXXV, 69. 

" A New Dynamometer, with Working Model." Ibid., XXXVI, 90. 

"A- New High-Speed Steam Engine Indicator." Ihid., XXXVI, 163. 

" Moment of Inertia." Ibid., XXXVI, 65. 

" Experimental Determination of the Reaction of a Liquid Jet." Ihid., XXXVI, 100. 

" A New Viscosimeter." Ibid., XXXVI, 100. 

" Piston Packing Rings " (Discussion). Trans. A. S. M. E., VIII, 452. 

" Economical Electrical Distribution." Electrical World, June 18, 1887. 

" The Spool Paradox." Letter to the Editor of the Manufacturer and Builder, No- 
vember, 1887. 

" The Reaction of a Liquid Jet." Journal of the Franklin Institute, August, 1887. 

" A New Dynamometer." Electrical World, September 10, 17, 1887. 

"Floating Dynamometer." Proc. A. A. A. S., XXXVII, 87. 

" Impact in the Injector." Ibid., XXXVII, 88. 

" ' Overhauhng ' of a Mechanical Power." Ihid., XXXVII, 88. 

"A Persistent Form of Gear Tooth." Trans. A.S.M.E., IX, 398. 

" Friction in Toothed Gearing " (Discussion). Ibid., IX, 206. 

"Effect of Friction at Connecting-Rod Bearings on the Forces Transmitted" (in 
conjunction with Prof. D. S. Jacobus). Annals of Mathematics, December, 1888. 

"The Centrifugal Catenary." Proc. A. A. A. S., XXXVIII, 76. 

" The Polar Tractrix." Ibid., XXXVIII, 74- 

" A Precession Model." Ibid., XXXVIII, 75. 

"Determination of the Pulsation Period in a Jena Glass Thermometer" (in con- 
junction with Prof. Wm. A. Rodgers). Ihid., XXXVIII, 140. 

"Error in the 'Encyclopedia Britannica.' " Trans. A. S.M.E., X, 778. 

"'Overhauling' of a Mechanical Power.'' Ibid., X, 402; Stev. Ind^, VI, 131. 

"Note on the Steam Turbine." Ibid., X, 680; Stcv. hid., VI, 288. 

"The Mechanics of the Injector." Trans. A. S.M.E., X, 339; Stcv. Ind., VI, 192; 
American Journal of Railway Appliances, December, 1888. 

"Standards" (Discussion). Trans. A. S. M. E., X, 572. 

" Effect of Friction at Connecting-Rod Bearings on the Force Transmitted." Ibid., 
XI, 1 134. 

" Length of an Indicator Card." Ibid., XI, 941. 

" Peclet's Treatment of Chimney Draught." Ibid., XI, 762. 

"The Comparison of Indicators." Ibid., XI, 311; Pozver, January and February, 



[890. 



" The Mechanical Theory of Chimney Draught." Trans. A. S. M. E., XI, yy2. 
"Steam Jackets on the Pawtucket Pumping Engine " (Discussion). /&fcf., XI, 363. 
"Performance of a Double-Screw Ferryboat" (Discussion). Ibid., XI, 446. 



Stevens Indicator." 



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"Theory and Design of Chimneys" (Discussion). Trans. A. S. M. E., XI, 477. 

" The Determination of Stresses in a Truss." Engineering News, April 12, 1890. 

" Note on Rankine's Treatment of Chimney Draught." Stev. Ind., VII, 50. 

"Jet Propulsion." Trans. A.S.M.E., XII, 904. 

"Performance of a Steam Reaction Wheel." Ibid.,^ll,S%%; Stev. Ind., Ylll, 2%y. 

"Chimney Draught: Facts and Theories" (Discussion). Trans. A. S. M. E., XII, 



119. 



" Bending Tests of Timber." Proc. A. A. A. S., XLI, 139; Stev. Ind., IX, 365. 

" Economical Steam Compression." Proc. A. A. A. S., XLII, 119. 

"Theory of Shaft Governors" (Discussion). Trans. A. S. M. E.j'K.'V, gs6. 

"Maxwell's Demons" (Letter to President Morton — see his letter on "Conservation 
of Energy"). Engineering (London), May 17, 1895, 648. 

"Mechanical Integrators." Stev. Ind., January and April, 1895; April and July, 
1896. 

" Polar Tractrix." Stev. Ind., April, 1895 ; April and July, 1896. 

" Note on Strength of Wheel Rims " (Discussion). Trans. A. S. M. E., XX, 134, 

"Possible New Law in the Theory of Elasticity." Proc. A. A. A.S., LI, 328. 

" Displacement Polygons." Ihid., LI, 329. 

" On the Accuracy of the Zero in the Dynamophone." Ihid., LI, 358. 

" The Dynamophone, a New Dynamometer." Ihid., LI, 394. 

" The Deflection of a Complete Quadrilateral." Ibid., LI, 394. 

"Second Law of Thermodynamics," "The Metrical System," and "Stress" (Papers 
read before the -American Association for the Advancement of Science, at the Washington 
meeting, 1903). 



COLEMAN SELLERS, E.D., Sc.D. 

Professor of Engineering Practice i88/-i8p^ 

Coleman Sellers was born in Philadelphia January 28, 1827. His 
father's family were among the earliest Quaker settlers of Pennsylvania, and his 
immediate ancestors were men of mechanical pursuits and respected and influen- 
tial citizens. His mother was a daughter of Charles Willson Peale, best known 
for his portraits of Washington and other officers of the Revolution, but also 
remarkable for the versatility of his talents, his mechanical skill, and his 
ingenuity. 

Dr. Sellers began his education in private schools in Philadelphia, and in 
1838 entered the academy of Anthony Bolmar at West Chester, Pa., where he 
remained until his seventeenth year, distinguishing himself for his scholarship, 
especially in mathematics and the natural sciences, which had for him a marked 
attraction. 

It was his mother's wish that he should follow agriculture, and upon leav- 
ing school he spent two years as a farmer's apprentice. In his nineteenth year 
an opportunity was offered him in the Globe Rolling Mill in Cincinnati, then 



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THE STEVENS INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY 



operated by his elder brothers, Charles and Escol. It was arranged that he should 
be the draughtsman for the rolling-mill, and his first work was in that line. He 
found his new business congenial, and he applied himself with ardor to mastering 
its details and with such success that we find him, before his twenty-first birth- 
day, acting as superintendent of the plant, 
with entire control of its operation. The 
mills made wire rods, merchant bar, and 
flat rails such as were then in use, and 
also drew iron telegraph wire. 

His brothers sold out their inter- 
ests in the business, and in 1850 he was 
persuaded to join his brother Escol in 
building his patent hill-climbing locomo- 
tives and his " orograph," a mechanical 
surveying-machine for plotting contours ; 
it was also a part of the scheme that they 
should instruct young men in the me- 
chanic arts. Three locomotives were built 
for the Panama Railroad and did good 
service there, although the third-rail grip 
— the hill-climbing feature — was not 
used. A few other locomotives were con- 
structed, but the enterprise failed, and 
Coleman Sellers accepted a position in the Niles Locomotive Works in Cincinnati 
and soon became foreman. He reorganized the shop, subdivided the work, intro- 
duced an effective piece-work system, and radically changed the methods of man- 
ufacture, purchased and installed new machinery, and recorded in his diary that 
he was prepared to complete two engines a week. 

These strenuous years of his young manhood were formative in a great 
degree in determining the bent of his mind and in giving him a fund of experience 
and a diversified practice which has been of great value to him in his subsequent 
career. They were years of hard mental and manual work, often with primitive 
and inefficient appliances ; but they developed his ingenuity and resourcefulness. 

He read with interest the published accounts of electrical discoveries as 
they were from time to time announced by Faraday and others, and made for 
his own use the apparatus necessary to repeat many of the experiments for the 
benefit of his friends. Much of this apparatus is still in existence, and its 
marked excellence speaks well for his neatness and skill. He botanized, collected 
fossils and fresh-water shells, and in the latter pursuit his zeal and success were 
recognized by the distinguished conchologist, Mr. Isaac Lea, who named a new 
species from his cabinet Melania Sellersiana in his honor. 

In 1850 he married the daughter of Horace Wells, of Cincinnati, a man of 




Prof. Coleman 



THE FACULTY 251 

advanced mechanical ideas, who was first attracted to his future son-in-law by a 
lecture he delivered on " Scientific Fallacies," in which he demonstrated the con- 
servation of energy and assailed, among others, a perpetual-motion scheme then 
very alluring to many otherwise sane persons. 

In 1856 he removed to Philadelphia and entered the establishment of Wil- 
liam Sellers & Co. as chief draughtsman and engineer. He applied himself with 
zeal to the duties of his new position, which afforded him ample scope for his 
marked inventive ability. His thoroughness, h'is originality, and sound mechanical 
ideas, as illustrated in the productions of his firm and demonstrated in his pub- 
lished writings and his lectures, soon earned for him a distinguished position in 
the engineering world. As in Cincinnati he had identified himself with the Ohio 
Mechanics' Institute, so in Philadelphia he soon applied himself to the work of 
the Franklin Institute, and in a great measure helped, by his papers, lectures, and 
committee work, to instil a new measure of vitality into that venerable society. 

Dr. Sellers early. took up photograph}^, first as an adjunct to his business, 
then as a pastime, and found in it a new outlet for his vigorous mental activity. 
He attained considerable proficiency and contributed many useful papers to the 
photographic press. He was for several years the American correspondent of 
the " British Journal of Photography," then the leading exponent of the art. 

Dr. Sellers was admitted to partnership in the firm of Wm. Sellers & Co. 
about 1870, and upon its incorporation in 1885 was elected to the office of engi- 
neer. He remained with the house for over 30 years, retiring in 1887 to take up 
an independent practice as a consulting engineer. He has been granted more than 
thirty patents of utility and value, and the science of engineering is largely in- 
debted to him for the great progress it has made during the last half-century in 
the direction of increase of efficiency of machinery and mechanical appliances. 

The versatility of Dr. Sellers has already been referred to. As additional 
evidence of this, and also of the practicality which marked his original work in 
whatever line, may be mentioned the use of absorbent cotton for surgical opera- 
tions, which was first thought of and recommended by him in his contributions to 
scientific journals as early as 1861. He also proposed the employment of glyc- 
erine for the purpose of keeping photographic plates moist; and it is interesting 
to note, in connection with his experiments in the early days of photography, that 
in the year 1861 Dr. Sellers invented and patented an apparatus in which figures 
in stereoscopic photographs could be seen as if in motion. Dr. Sellers's uncle, 
the late Franklin Peale, suggested the name " kinomatoscope " for this apparatus, 
which therefore, both in name and purpose, may be truly accepted as the parent 
of the " kinetoscope " of to-day, that has since been made possible by instanta- 
neous photography and subsequent improvements in electrical appliances. 

When Dr. Sellers retired from his position as chief engineer with William 
Sellers & Co. in 1887, President Morton secured his services as a non-resident 
member of the Faculty of the Stevens Institute as Professor of Engineering Prac- 



252 THE STEVENS INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY 

tice, with the intent of his giving such time as he could spare from his practice as 
consulting engineer to deliver lectures on the actual practice of engineering: first, 
as an encouragement to students, in illustrating the needs of precise methods; 
second, to point out the utility of the course pursued in imparting instruction 
to engineers; and mainly to bring the students into close relationship with a wide 
range of engineering practice. 

Dr. Coleman Sellers, in a letter to President Morton, said : 

" In 1887, when you solicited my aid as a lecturer in Engineering Practice, I was 
deeply interested in your good work and felt that through you, first, and later through the 
members of the Faculty of the Stevens Institute, I was indebted for much of the scientific 
knowledge I have gained during that time, and which I have been able to use to advantage 
in engineering work quite out of the line of my earlier experience. 

" I beg leave to call attention to one important fact bearing upon the utility of 
technical instruction in harmony with practice. When students from technical schools be- 
gan to seek employment in workshops, it was found that with the exception of those edu- 
cated at the Stevens Institute those admitted to drawing-room practice lost much valuable 
time in acquiring the methods of presenting the several views of machinery according to 
the mode in universal shop practice and in getting their minds rid of what they had been 
taught at school. This suggested an address in favor of the common-sense system of me- 
chanical drawing practised in the shops and as taught in the Franklin Institute and in the 
Drawing School of the Stevens Institute. 

" In arranging the course of studies in the first college devoted to teaching me- 
chanical engineering, I am aware that your intercourse with practical engineers while in 
Philadelphia fitted you to present a plan of instruction in harmony with the confirmed 
practice of the engineering profession. The methods pursued from the start in your school 
in so important a branch as mechanical drawing shows your full knowledge of the wants 
of engineers when you were entrusted with the organization of the Institution." 

Following his appointment as a non-resident member of the Faculty of 
Stevens Institute, Professor Sellers continued his work in this capacity, giving a 
valuable series of practical lectures each year for a number of years. Some of the 
subjects covered by Dr. Sellers in these lectures included " Drawing-Room Prac- 
tice " ; " The Machine-Shop " ; " Notes on Steam Hammer and Hydraulic Forging 
and Riveting " ; " Transmission of Motion " ; " Water- Wheels " ; " Transmission 
of Power "; " Mechanical Integrator"; and " Rules, Tables, and Notes on Engi- 
neering Practice," which included a wide range of topics. These lectures, based 
on the wide and successful experience of Dr. Sellers, are a valuable contribution 
to the work of the Institute, recorded as they are, for reference and utility in the 
work of instruction for the present and future time, in the pages of the college 
publication, the " Stevens Institute Indicator." It is to be regretted that the stu- 
. dents could not continue indefinitely to have the benefit of listening to Dr. Sellers 
personally in the delivery of these lectures. Since 1894 he has been unable to 
give his time to this work. In 1887 he received from the Stevens Institute the 
honorary degree of Doctor of Engineering. 



THE FACULTY 253 

The value and importance of the unrivalled work accomplished by Dr. 
Sellers in advancing the cause of engineering through the contribution of his num- 
erous useful mechanical devices, as mentioned in this sketch, is paralleled by his 
own achievements in later years in connection with his work on the development 
of the mechanical features of the great power plant at Niagara Falls. Numer- 
ous letters written by him in response to the solicitations of President Morton in- 
dicate conclusively the vast amount of engineering detail for which there was 
no precedent or guide, and which he was called upon to devise. A brief outline 
of Dr. Sellers's work is given by Mr. Frederick A. Riehle in the " Digest of Phys- 
ical Tests " for October, 1897. From this we quote: 

" In 1889 Dr. Sellers was called upon by capitalists to consider the practicability of 
the development and utilization of the hydraulic power of Niagara Falls. He was subse- 
quently appointed to represent America in the International Niagara Commission of five 
members, with Lord Kelvin as chairman, which in 1890 was established in London to con- 
sider various methods of utilizing the power of the Falls, and since that time he has been 
the active engineering head of the work, both as consulting engineer of the Cataract Con- 
struction Company, and president and chief engineer of the Niagara Falls Power Company. 
The important mechanical design of the large dynamos for the plant was the invention of 
Dr. Sellers, and was built under his patents by the Westinghouse Electric & Manufactur- 
ing Company. Under his advice and directions important improvements have been made 
in the hydraulic machinery, and to his mechanical ability, sound judgment, and experience 
is largely due the success of the entire equipment and its freedom from costly methods so 
often met with in undertakings of this magnitude. 

" Besides directing this important work at Niagara Falls, Dr. Sellers is actively 
engaged in his private practice of consulting engineer. In 1881 he was appointed to the hon- 
orary Chair of Professor of Mechanics in the Franklin Institute of the State of Pennsyl- 
vania. 

" He is a member of the American Society of Naval Architects and Marine Engi- 
neers; member and past president of the Franklin Institute of the State of Pennsylvania; 
member and past president of the American Society of Mechanical Engineers; member of 
the American Society of Civil Engineers and of the American Philosophical Society; also 
of the Institution of Civil Engineers and the Institution of Mechanical Engineers, both of 
Great Britain; and corresponding member of the Society of Arts of Geneva, Switzerland. 

" In 1887 the Royal Norwegian Order of St. Olaf was conferred upon him by the 
king of Sweden in recognition of his valued services in his profession. He was one of 
the founders and for a time president of the Photographic Society of Philadelphia, and also 
of the Pennsylvania Museum and School of Industrial Art of Philadelphia. He was a 
member of the Seybert Commission of the University of Pennsylvania for the investigation 
of the claims of Spiritualism, being chosen in consequence of his active and clear percep- 
tion of the laws governing cause and effect, and his knowledge of sleight-of-hand, in which 
art, as a pastime, he has been an expert since boyhood." 

In 1899 the University of Pennsylvania conferred upon him the honorary 
degree of Doctor of Science, and his diploma makes special and just reference to 
his interest in education and his readiness at all times to impart to others the re- 
sults of his studies and experience. 



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THE STEVENS INSTITUTE OF TECEINOLOGY 



THOMAS B. STILLMAN, M.Sc, Ph.D. 



Professor of Engineering Chemistry 



Thomas B. Stillman, son of Charles H. and Mary E. (Starr) Stillman, 
was born at Plainfield, N. J., May 24, 1852. Elis early education was received in 
Dr. Bigelow's school, and in the schools of Plainfield ; afterward he became a stu- 
dent at the grammar school of Madison University, Hamilton, N. Y., and Al- 
fred University, Alfred, N. Y., and in 
1870 entered Rutgers College, New 
Brunswick, N. J., graduating- in June, 
1873, I'eceiving the degree of Bachelor of 
Science, and membership in Phi Beta 
Kappa. His graduating thesis on " The 
Composition of the Ashes of Plants" was 
awarded the second thesis prize. He also 
received the mineralogical prize. 

While pursuing a postgraduate 
course in chemistry at the New Jersey 
State Scientific School, he was also con- 
nected with the New Jersey State Geo- 
logic Survey, with practical surveying 
work at the zinc mines of Sussex Coun- 
ty. In 1874 he received his appointment 
as private assistant to Prof. Albert R. 
Leeds, of Stevens Institute, which he re- 
PROP. T. B. STILLMAN ^^j^^^^ ^^^-j Qctobcr, 1 876. In the latter 

year he received the degree of Master in Science from Rutgers College and in 
November entered the chemical laboratory of Dr. R. Fresenius, of Wiesbaden, 
Germany, as a student of chemical research. For some investigations upon salts of 
uranium in this laboratory Dr. Stillman was elected a foreign corresponding mem- 
ber of the Edinburgh Society of Arts and Sciences. 

In 1879 he opened an office in New York city for the practice of analyti- 
cal chemistry. In connection with his professional work he was chemist to the 
Sawyer-Mann Electric Light Co. ; associate editor in the science department of 
the " Scientific American " ; and manager of the assay department of the " Min- 
ing Record." This gave him a practical acquaintance with the chemical industries 
of the time, and his services have often been required since as an expert in his 
specialties. In 1881 Dr. Stillman again became connected with the Institute in 
the Department of Chemistry; in 1886 was elected to the Chair of Analytical 
Chemistry; and in 1902, upon the death of Prof. Leeds, took charge of the en- 




THE FACULTY 255 

tire chemical work in the Institute course under the title of Professor of Engineer- 
ing Chemistry. In 1883 the Stevens Institute conferred upon him the degree of 
Doctor of Philosophy. 

Dr. Stillman's membership in scientific societies includes the Chemical So- 
ciety of London, Eng. ; the Society of Chemical Industry, London, Eng. ; the 
American Institute of Mining Engineers; the American Chemical Society; 
the American Section of the International Association for Testing Materials of 
Construction ; the American Electro-Chemical Society ; the Deutsche Chemische 
Gesellschaft, Berlin, Germany; the Societe Chimique de Paris; and the Edinburgh 
Society of Arts and Sciences. 

He married Emma L. Pomplitz, of Baltimore, Md. They have three chil- 
dren, yVlbert Leeds, Anita May, and Thomas B., Jr., Stillman. Mrs. Stillman, 
since her residence in Hoboken, has taken much interest in the social affairs of the 
Institute, endeavoring to relieve the monotony of college life by entertaining the 
students at receptions and participating in their various social functions. 

Dr. Stillman is an enthusiastic student of genealogical matters, and has 
devoted much attention to genealogical research. In 1889 he became a member 
of the Sons of the Revolution; he is also a member of the Mayflow^er Society as 
a direct descendant of Elder William Brewster, of the " Mayflower." He is en- 
titled to membership in the Society of Colonial Wars, as a descendant of Gov- 
ernor Arnold, the first governor of Rhode Island in 1665. 

Dr. Stillman has been granted seven patents,- — two on the manufacture of 
nitrogen gas, and the others as follows: Apparatus for charging electric lamps 
with nitrogen gas; Treatment of phosphates of iron and alumina; Treating in- 
soluble phosphates for fertilizer; Apparatus for manufacturing illuminating 
gas; and' Process for the manufacture of water gas. 

Some attention has also been given to the publication of his investigations 
in chemical work, as the following list of subjects will indicate : 

" Composition of the Ashes of Plants." Report of the State Geologist of New Jersey, 

^873- 

" A New Salt of Uranium." Trans. Edin. Soc. Arts and Sci.\ Edinburgh, 1877. 

" Bismuth, A Comparison of the Methods of the Quantitative Determination of Bis- 
muth." Sci. Am. Supp.-, May 18, 1878. 

- "The Adulteration of Olive Oil." Jour. An. Chem.', Ill, 365; Stcv. Ind.\ VI, 202. 

"The Composition of Boiler Scale." Jour. An. Chem., IV., 24; Chem. News," LXI, 
258; CIiei)i. Cent. Bl.% LXI, 174; Jahresb. Wag.\ XXXVI, 578; Journal London Chemical So- 
ciety, LVIII, 944; Ding. Poly. Jour.\ CCLXXXI, 24; Sci. Am. Supp., XXX, 12,181 ; Reperto- 
rium der Technischen Journal — Literature, 189I) P- 243. 

' "Transactions of the Edinburgh Society of Arts and Sciences." 
2 "Scientific American Supplement." s " Chemical News.' 

^'■"Journal of Analytical Chemistry." « " Chemisches Central Blatt." 

■"" Stevens Institute Indicator." ?" Wagner's Jahresbericht der Chemischen Technologic." 

8 " Dingler's Polytechnisches Journal." 



256 THE STEVENS INSTITUTE OE TECHNOLOGY 

"The Examination of Lubricating Oils." Stcv. Ind., VII, 211; Chem. Tr. Jour.\ 
(London), July, 1890. 

"The Analysis of Water for Boiler Use." Jour. An. Chem., IV, 446, 450- Chem 
News, LXII, 299, 311; Stev. Ind., VII, 317; Ding. Poly. Jour., CCLXXX, 297; Zeitschr. 
Aug. Ch.\ 1891, 251; Chem. Cent. BL, LX, 292; Phillips's Engineering Chemistry London 
1893- 

" Animal, Marine, and Vegetable Oils ; Their Chemical Reactions, and Methods of 
Detection in Mixtures." Jour. An. and Ap. Ch.\ V, 206, 314, 695; Zeitschr. Ang. Ch., 
1892, p. 286; Stev. Ind., VIII, 99, 202, 318; Chem. Tr. Jour. (London), 1892; Jahresb.' Wag. 
XXXVIII, 1,038; Chemische Technische Repertorium, XCIII, 343. 

"Water Analysis": Table for Converting Milligrams per Litre to Grams per 
Gallon." Jour. An. and Ap. Ch., VI, 372; Stev. Ind., IX, 149. 

" The Chemical and Physical Examination of Portland Cement." Jour. Am. Chem. 
Soc.*,XV, 182, XVI, 160, 283, 323, 374; C/ir;». Cciif. BL, LXV, 847, 1,067; ^our. Soc. Ch. 
Ind.', XIII, 278, 637; Ding. Poly. lour., CCLX, 90, 94; Bidl. Soc. Chim. Paris' (3), XII, 
1,069, 1. 156; Jahrcsh. Wag., XXXIX, 740; Stev. Ind., X, 137, 287; Chemische Technische 
Repertorium, XCIV, 3. 

"The Determination of Carbon in Iron and Steel." Stev. Ind., XI, 306. 
"The Analysis of CyHnder Deposits." Jour. Am. Chem. Soc, VI, 321; Stev. Ind., 
IX, 360; Chem. Cent. BL, LXIII, 639; Cassier's Magazine, VI. 

" Sodium Cyanide as an Aduherant of Potassium Cyanide." Jour. An. and Ap. Ch., 
VI, 467; Jonr. Soc. Ch. Ind., XII, 41; Zeitschr. Ang. Ch., XXXIII, 594; Chem. Cent Bl' 
LX, 822. 

" The Analysis of Lubricating Oils Containing Blown Rapeseed Oils and Blown 
Cottonseed Oils." Jour. Soc. Ch. Ind., XV, 265; XLII, 286; Transactions of the American 
Association for the Advancement of Science, yj_^ll^ 206; Bull. Soc. Chim. Paris (3), XII, 
112. 

" The Chemical and Physical Examination of Paper." Stev. Ind., XII, 169, 282, 389. 
" Scheme for the Analysis of White Paint Ground in Oil." Quart. Dig. Phys. 
Tests,' 1, 263. 

" References to the Literature of Portland Cement." 1892-1896. Stcv. Ind., XIII, 433. 
" Note on the Solubility of Bismuth Sulphide in Alkaline Sulphides, with Special 
Reference to the Determination of Bismuth in Metal-Bearing Alloys." lour. Am. Chem. 
Soc, XVIII, 683; Chem. News, LXXIV, 196; Chem. Cent. Bl, LXVII, 687. 

" Paint Analysis." Quart. Dig. Phys. Tests, II ; Stev. Ind., XIV ; Drugs, Oils, and 
Paints, XIII, 320. 

" The Action of Nitric Acid upon Aluminum, and the Formation of Aluminum Ni- 
trate." Jour. Am. Chem. Soc.,yil'K, 712-717; Chem. Cent. Bl, LXVIII, 888; Stev. Ind., 
XIV; Rev. Am. Chem. Res.', XIX, 4; Jahrbuch der Chemie (R. Meyer), 1897, 82. 

" Engineering Chemistry, A Manual of Quantitative Chemical Analysis for Students, 
Chemists, and Engineers." Pp. 523, 820. Chemical Pub. Co., Easton, Pa., 1897. (3d ed.) 
" The Adulteration of Paris Green, with a Scheme for Analysis." Stev. Ind., July, 
1898; Paints, Oils, and Drugs, 1898, 172. 

" A Scheme for the Rapid Analysis of Boiler Water." Stev. Ind., October, 1898. 
" The Determination of Alkalies in Portland and Natural Cements." Stev. Ind., Oc- 
tober, 1901. 

1" Chemical Trade Journal." s" journal of Society of Chemical Industry." 

2 " Zeitschrift f ijr Angewandte Chemie." " 'Bulletin de la Societe Chimique de Paris." 

3 " Journal of Analytical and Apphed Chemistry." '"Quarterly Digest of Physical Tests." 

* •'Journal of American Chemical Society." «" Review of American Chemical Research." 



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DAVID SCHENCK JACOBUS, M.E. 

Professor of Experimental Engineering 

David S. Jacobus was born in Ridgefield, Bergen County, N. J., January 20, 
1862. His father, Nicholas Jacobus, for forty years a resident of Ridgefield, was 
the junior member of the firm of D. Jacobus & Son, manufacturers of sashes, doors, 
and blinds, Wooster Street, New York. 

Young Jacobus received his early 
education at a private school conducted 
by the Rev. A. B. Taylor, a venerable 
country pastor who for many years pre- 
sided over the old Dutch Reformed 
Church at Ridgefield, — a man whose pre- 
cept in all things was, " Be sure of your 
foundation," and whose painstaking and 
kindly instruction was ever given with 
this in mind. He afterwa,rd entered the 
Junior class of the Stevens High School 
at Hoboken, N. J., and won, by competi- 
tive examination, a free scholarship in the 
Institute. He graduated with the degree 
of Mechanical Engineer in the Class of 
1884, and was appointed Instructor in 
the Department of Experimental Mechan- 
ics. He served as such and as Assist- 
ant Professor for thirteen years until 1897, when he was advanced to a full pro- 
fessorship and placed in charge of the Department of Experimental Mechanics 
and Engineering Physics. On April 5, 1899, he married Laura Dinkel, of Jer- 
sey City, N. J. They have two children, David Dinkel and Laura Jacobus. 

Prof. Jacobus acted as an assistant to Prof. Denton in the Department of 
Experimental Mechanics and Shop Work for fifteen years, starting this work even 
before the time of his graduation. Believing that members of the Faculty should 
keep in close touch with the engineering world. President Morton arranged mat- 
ters so that much time could be spent by Professors Denton and Jacobus in the 
practical field and on original experiments, and by his kindly advice and encour- 
agement aided them greatly in their researches. His youthful ambition changed 
night into day, and he then obtained a broad experience in practical experimental 
engineering work, in which field he is now an acknowledged authority. The work 
of Prof. Jacobus has been so closely associated with that of Prof. Denton that to 
speak of one is to speak of the other; and Prof. Jacobus attributes his success 
to the inspiration and assistance received from him. 




258 THE STEVENS INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY 

In connection with his work in experimental engineering he has developed 
original apparatus for the illustration of physical laws and for testing various 
mechanical devices. These investigations have formed the basis of a large num- 
ber of papers presented before engineering and scientific societies. 

He is a member of the following associations : the American Society of 
Mechanical Engineers; the Society of Naval Architects and Marine Engineers; 
the American Institute of Mining Engineers; the American Society of Refriger- 
ating Engineers ; the American Mathematical Society ; the Society for the Promo- 
tion of Engineering Education ; the American Association for the Advancement of 
Science; the Franklin Institute of Philadelphia; and an associate member of the 
American Institute of Electrical Engineers. He is also a member of the Engineers' 
Club ; the Holland Society of New York ; and the New York Railroad Club. 

In 1898 he was recommended by the Council of the American Society of 
Mechanical Engineers and appointed by their President on a committee of five 
to report upon the subject of " Codifying and Standardizing the Methods of Mak- 
ing Engine Tests." As secretary of this committee he expended much time 
preparing the report, which was accepted by the Society. He was elected a mana- 
ger of the American Society of Mechanical Engineers in December, 1900, and 
also served for some time as a member of the Publication Committee and the 
Committee on Admissions. In December, 1903, he was elected a vice-president of 
this society. 

Professors Denton and Jacobus worked together in developing the course 
of Experimental Mechanics, a line of work which had been inaugurated by Prof. 
Denton, in order that the work of the class-room might be supplemented with 
practical experiments made by the students. For many years they hoped that 
it might be possible to secure a Ijuilding in which the machines and apparatus 
used in their department could be so placed as to form an attractive laboratory, 
and which should give facilities for the further development of the educational 
features which they had made a part of the course. Their desire was gratified 
when Mr. Andrew Carnegie donated the funds required to huWd the Carnegie 
Laboratory of Engineering, and the building was planned and constructed to em- 
body their joint ideas. Later, Mr. Carnegie gave a generous endowment fund for 
the maintenance of the building. 

The following is a list of the scientific papers of which Pruf. Jacobus is 
the author : 

" Error of Approximate Calculations of the Effect of the Inertia of the Moving 
Parts of a Steam-Engine." Proc. A.A.A.S.\ XXXVI, 166, 1887; Stcv. Indr, V, 198, 1888. 
" Special Lectures in Applied Mechanics." Stev. Ind., V, 21. 
"Comparative Efficiency of the Injector and Steam Pump." Ibid., Y, 112, 1888. 



' " Proceedings of the American Association for the Advancement of Science." 
2 " Stevens Institute Indicator." 



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" Effect of Friction at the Connecting-Rod Bearings on the Forces Transmitted " 
(with Prof. J. B. Webb). Proc. A. A. A. S., XXXVII, 153, 1888; Ann. Math.\ IV, 169; 
Trans A. S. M. E:, XI, 1134. 

" Efficiency of Vapor-Engines." Stev. Ind., V, 249, 1888. 

" Efficiency of a Steam Boiler Using the Waste Gas of a Blast Furnace as FueL" 
Trans. A. I. M. E.\ XVII, 50, 1888; Stev. Ind., V, 238, 1888. 

"Water Gas as a Steam-Boiler Fuel." Trans. A. I. M. E., XVII, 300, 1889. 

" Friction of a Small Vertical Engine." Stev. Ind., VI, 102, 1889. 

"Steam Consumption of Engines at Various Speeds" (with Prof. J. E. Denton). 
Trans. A.S.M. E., X, 722, 1889. 

" Experimental Mechanics as Developed in Foreign Technical Schools." Stcz'. Ind., 

VI, 257, 1889. 

"An Interesting Exercise in Applied Mechanics." Stev. Ind., VI, 275, 1889. 

" General Solution of Transmission of Force in a Steam Engine, as Influenced by 
the Action of Friction, Acceleration and Gravity." Trans. A. S. M. E., XI, 492, 1890; Ann. 
Math., February, 1890. 

"An Improved Form of Closed Circuit Burglar Alarm." Stev. Ind., VII, 39, 1890. 

" Two Instruments for Illustrating the Action of the Polar Planimeter." Ibid., 

VII, 130, 1890. 

" Appendix to General Solution of the Transmission of Force in a Steam-Engine." 
Trans. A.S.M.E., XI, 1,116, 1890. 

"The Effective Area of Screws." Ibid., XI, 1,028, 1890; Proc. Inst. Civ. Eng. Gt. 
Brit.*, CIV, 391. 

" Influence of Steam-jackets of the Pawtucket Pumping Engine." Trans. A. S. M. 
E., XI, 1,038, 1890. 

" Determination of the Sensitiveness of Automatic Sprinklers" (Discussion). Ibid., 
XI, 709, 1890. 

"An Open Mercury Column for High Pressures" (Discussion). Ibid., XI, 893, 
1890. 

"Latest Developments in Compressed-Air Motors for Tramways." Trans. A. I. M. E., 
XIX, 553, 1890; Stev. Ind., VIII, 17, 1891. 

" Ledoux's Equations for the Latent Heat of Ammonia and Sulphur Dioxide " 
(with Prof. A. Riesenberger). Stev. Ind., VII, 334, 1890. 

" Experimental Determination of the Latent Heat of Ammonia and Sulphur Diox- 
ide." Trans. A. S. M. E., XII, 307, 1890. 

" Influence of Receiver Jacket on Indicator Cards of a Compound Engine." Stev. 
Ind., VIII, 131, 1891. 

" Report on Duty Trials of Pumping-Engines; Comparison of Various Steam Tables " 
(Discussion). Trans. A. S. M. E., XII, 590, 1891. 

" Comparison of the Economy of Compound and Single-Cylinder Corliss Condensing 
Engines, Each Expanding about Sixteen Times." Ibid., XII, 943, 1891. 

" Relative Value of Carbonic Acid as the Working Fluid in Refrigerating Ma- 
chines." Proc. A. A. A. S-, XL, 214, 1891 ; Am. Mach.^, December 10, 1891. 

" Maximum Error Due to Neglecting the Radiation Correction of a Barrus Uni- 
versal Calorimeter." Proc. A. A. A. S., XL, 214; Am. Mach., December 17, 1891. 



" Annals of Mathematics." - " Transactions of the American Society of Mechanical Engineers. 

^ " Transactions of the American Institute of Mining Engineers." 
" Proceedings of the institute of Civil Engineers of Great Britain." ^ " American Machinist, 



26o THE STEVENS INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY 

" Relative Merits of Various Steam Tables." Stev. Ind., VIII, 314, 1891. 

"Influence of the Steam Jackets of the Pawtucket Pumping-Engine " (Discussion). 
Trans. A. S. M. E., XIII, 190, 1892. 

" Economy of the Pawtucket Pumping-Engine With and Without Superheating." 
'Stev. Ind., IX, 40, 1892. 

" On the Heat of Dissociation of Ammonia in Refrigerating Machines of the Ab- 
sorption Type" (with Prof. J. E. Denton). Stev. Ind., IX, 23, 129, 1892. 

" Summary of Results of Principal Experimental Measurements of Performance of 
Refrigerating Machines" (with Prof. J. E. Denton). Trans. A. S. M. E., XIII, 507, 1892. 

" Two-Cylinder versus Multi-Cylinder Engines " (Discussion). Ibid., XIII, 660, 
1892. 

" Steam Economy of the Engines of the Screw Ferryboat ' Bremen ' " (with Prof. J. 
E. Denton). Proc. A.A.A.S., XLI, 135, 1892. 

" Use of Anemometers for Measuring the Velocity of Air in Flumes." Ibid., XLI, 
137, 1892. 

" Measurements of the Total Heats of Combustion." Ibid., XLI, 136, 1892. 

" Calculation of the Heat of Combustion of an Illuminating Oil Gas, and Compari- 
son With the Heat Determined by Experiment." Stev. Ind., IX, 351, 1892. 

" Experimental Determination of the Heat Generated per Candle-Power by Oil and 
Gas Lamps." Trans. A. S. M. E., XIV, 331. 

" Ice-Making Machines," by M. Ledoux. Revision and Transformation into Eng- 
lish Units (with Prof. J. E. Denton and Prof. A. Riesenberger). Van Nostrand's "Sci- 
ence Series," No. 46, 1893. 

" Comparison of the Power Obtainable from Liquefied Carbonic Acid Gas and Com- 
pressed Air." Stev. Ind., X, 130, 1893. 

"Tests of Automatic Fire Sprinklers." Proc. A. A. A. S., XLII, 123, 1893; ^"^• 
Mach., January, 1894. 

"An Accurate Method of Measuring Heavy Liquid Pressures." Proc. A. A. A. S., 
XLII, 123, 1893. 

" Experimental Determination of the Quickness of Action of a Shaft Governor." 
Ibid., XLII, 124, 1893. 

" A Comparison of the Mean Effective Pressure of Simultaneous Cards Taken with 
Different Indicators." Trans. A. S. M. E., XV, 277, 1894. 

" Ice-Making." Johnson's Universal Cyclopedia, .IV, 478. 

" Errors of Measurements of Power by the Steam-Engine Indicator." Stev. Ind., 
XI, 65, 1894. 

"An Improvement in the Planimeter." Trans. A.S.M. E., XV, 635, 1894. 

" Results of Measurements of the Water Consumption of an Unjacketed 1,600 Horse- 
Power Compound Harris-Corliss Engine" (with Prof. J. E, Denton and R. H. Rice). Ibid., 
XV, 882, 1894. 

" Results of Experiments with a 50 Horse-Power Single, Non-Condensing Ball & 
Wood Engine, to Determine the Influence of Compression on the Water Consumption." 
Ibid., XV, 915, 1894. 

" Notes on the Theory of Shaft Governors " (Discussion). Ibid., XV, 950, 1894. 

" On the Precautions Necessary in the Use of Mercurial Thermometers in Deter- 
mining the Amount of Superheat in Steam." Proc. A. A. A. S., XLIII, 191, 1894. In- 
cluded in the general article on " Measurements of Temperature of Steam." Stev. Ind., 
XIII, 43, 1896. 



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" Improvements in Method of Testing Automatic Fire Sprinkler Heads." Proc. A. A. 
A. S., XLIII, 193; Stev. Ind., XI, 159, 1894, 

" Preliminary Experiments on a New Air Pyrometer for Measuring Temperatures 
as High as the Melting-Point of Steel." Proc. A. A. A. S., XLIII, 192, 1894. 

"A Dynamic Steam-Engine Indicator Tester " (Discussion). Transactions of the 
Society of Naval Architects and Marine Engineers, II, 156, 1894. 

" Experimental Determination of the Quickness of Action of a Shaft Governor, and 
Theoretical Consideration of the Influence of an Inertia Weight." Stev. Ind., XI, 323, 1894. 

" Results of Measurements to Test the Accuracy of Small Throttling Calorimeters." 
Trans. A.S.M.E., XVI, 448, 1894; Stev. Ind., XII, 177. 

" Refrigerating Processes." lohnson's Universal Cyclopedia, VII, 39. 

"Tests of Automatic Fire Sprinkler Heads." Stev. Ind., XI, 159, 1894; XII, 45, 1895. 

" New Forms of Friction Brakes " (Discussion). Trans. A. S. M. E., XVI, 819, 1895. 

" Tests to Show the Distribution of Moisture in Steam when Flowing through a Hor- 
izontal Pipe." Ibid., XVI, 1,017, i^QS- 

"Some Experiments with Throttling Calorimeters " (Discussion). Ibid., XVII, 
162, 1895. 

" Experimental Methods of Determining the Effective Centre of the Light Emitted 
from a Standard Photometric Burner." Ibid., XVII, 212, 1895. 

" Correspondence on Thermal Efficiency of Steam Engine : Uses of the Diagram. 
Necessity of a Standard, Taking into Account the Conditions under which an Engine Works. 
Measurements of the Efficiency of the Distributions of Steam in Compound Engines." Proc. 
Inst. Civ. Eng. Gt. Brit., CXXV, 226. 

" Measurement of Temperature of Steam." Stev. Ind., XIII, 43, 1896. 

" An Apparatus for Exhibiting the Distribution of Moisture in a Steam Main." Proc. 
A.A.A.S., XLV, 97, 1896. 

" An Apparatus for Accurately Measuring Pressures of Two Thousand Pounds per 
Square Inch and Over." Ibid., XLV, 97, 1896. 

" An Apparatus for Tracing a Curve Representing the Force Required to Over- 
come the Inertia of the Reciprocating Parts of a Steam Engine." Ibid., XLV, 97, 1896. 

" Values of Heat of Combustion of Various Gases per Cubic Foot for Use in Cal- 
culating the Heating Power from the Analysis of a Gas. Ibid., XLV, 97, 1896. 

"Artificial Lighting; Modern Methods Compared, — Electric-Incandescent, Welsbach, 
Acetylene." lottr. Frank. Inst., CXLIII, 364, 1897. 

" Tests to Show the Influence of Moisture in Steam on the Economy of a Steam 
Turbine." Trans. A. S. M. E., XVIII, 699, 1897. 

" An Apparatus for Accurately Measuring Pressures of Ten Thousand Pounds per 
Square Inch and Over." Ibid., XVIII, 1,041. 1897. 

" Flue Gas Analysis in Boiler Tests." Trans. A. A. A. S., XLVI, 180, 1897. 

"On Determining the Moisture in Steam." Stev. Ind., XIV, 395, 1897. 

" Correspondence on Condensation of Steam ; Determination of the Factor of Con- 
densation." Proc. Inst. Civ. Eng. Gt. Brit., CXXXI, 245, 1897-98. 

" Experimental Mechanics ; Methods of Calculating and Recording the Results of 
Experiments Made at the Stevens Institute During the Supplementary Term." Stev. Ind., 
XV, 175, 255, 388, 1898. 

" Methods of Testing Indicators." Trans. A.S.M. E., XX, 404, 1898. 

" Correspondence on High-Speed Engines ; Employment of a Vibratory Tachometer 
to Determine Instantaneous Variations of Speed of the Governor." Proc. Inst. Civ. Eng. 
Gt. Brit., CXXXVI, 130, 1898-99. 



262 THE STEVENS INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY 

" Determination of the Moisture in Steam Flowing Through a Horizontal Pipe." 
(contributed to "Code for Conducting Steam Boiler Trials"). Trans. A. S. M. E., XXI, 
1 06, 1899. 

"Test of Pumping Engines" (Matter in regard to the calibration of indicators) 
(Discussion). Ihid., XXI, 345, 1899. 

" Testing Indicator Springs." Stev. Ind., XVI, 397, 1899. 

" New Form of Pressure Gauge " (Discussion). Trans. A. S. M. E., XXI, 447, 1899. 

" A Le Chatelier Pyrometer in Which any Error Due to Variations in the Resistance 
of the Platinum and Platinum-Rhodium Elements is Eliminated." Trans. A. A. A. S., XLIX, 
151, 1900. 

"Education of Machinists and Mechanical Engineers" (Discussion). Trans. A. S. 
M. E., XXI, 739, 1900. 

"Testing Steam-Engine Indicators " (Discussion). Ibid., XXII, 121, 1901. 

"Tests of Non-Conductive Coverings for Steam Pipes." Stev. Ind., XVIII, 240, 1901. 

" A Comparison of Pipe-Covering Tests." Ibid., XIX, 12, 1902. 

"Tests of Steam-Pipe Coverings" (Discussion). Trans. A. S. M. E., XXIII, 838, 
1902. 

" Water and Heat Consumption of a Compound Engine at Various Powers." Ibid., 
XXIV, 1,274, 1903. 

" Tests of a Compound Engine Using Superheated Steam." Ibid., XXV, 1904. 



ADAM RIESENBERGER, M.E. 

Professor of jMcclianical Drawing; Registrar and Assistant Treasurer 

Adam Riesenberger was born in Whiteport, Ulster County, N. Y., Feb- 
ruary 9, 1857, and when he was three years old the family moved to Hudson 
County, N. J. His parents, Nicholas and Catherine Riesenberger, were natives 
of Bavaria, Germany, and came to this country about 1847. At the age of eight 
years he entered the Hoboken Academy, and attended this school until 1872, com- 
pleting the course in his sixteenth year. He was admitted as a student of the Ste- 
vens Institute in the same year, and was graduated with the degree of Mechanical 
Engineer in 1876. 

During his college course he took an active part in athletics and played 
upon the regular 'Varsity baseball and football teams. After graduation from the 
Institute he served a short apprenticeship in a general machine-shop, and was then 
appointed an assistant in the Mechanical Laboratory of the Stevens Institute, 
which was at that time under the directorship of Prof. R. H. Thurston. His 
duties included the testing of materials of construction and the computation of the 
results of tests. In conjunction with his work he also had charge, for one year, of 
a class in the Stevens High School. 

In 1 88 1 he was appointed Instructor in the Department of Mechanical 
Drawing, was advanced to Assistant Professor in 1887, and to Professor in 1899. 
Until 1892 he assisted Prof. MacCord in the four classes. Then, owing to the 



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large number of students in attendance, Prof. MacCord confined his instruction 
to the Senior and Junior classes, and to Prof. Riesenberger was given the full 
charge of the Sophomore and Freshman classes. 

In 1884 he succeeded Mr. William A. Macy as Treasurer of the Institute. 
The accounts, which previous to that time had been kept at the office of the 
Hoboken Land & Improvement Company 
in Newark Street, Hoboken, were then 
transferred to the Institute Building. He 
was treasurer to the Board of Trustees 
until 1892; since the latter year Col. 
E. A. ■ Stevens has been the Treasurer, 
and Prof. Riesenberger Assistant Treas- 
urer. During the years 1881 to 1892 he 
acted as Librarian. For a number of 
years he has also performed duties 
usually devolving upon the registrar of a 
college, and in 1902, when the office of 
Registrar was formally established, he 
was appointed to fill it. 

With the many routine office duties 
devolving upon him he has still found 
time for some literary work, and accepted 
the editorship of the " Stevens Indica- 
tor " in 1890, three years after it had been 
changed to a quarterly magazine ; continued in charge of the editorial management 
until 1893 ; and in 1896 resumed the editorship, jointly with Dr. Thos. B. Still- 
man, for a year and a half. As a member of the Publication Committee of the 
Twenty-fifth Anniversary of the Stevens Institute (to which was originally as- 
signed the publication of a volume commemorating the occasion), he compiled, in 
1897 and 1898, a record of the work done and positions held by the Alumni of 
Stevens from the time of graduation to and including the year 1896. In 1889 
Professors Denton, Jacobus, and Riesenberger made a revision and transformed 
the units of Ledoux's treatise on Ice-Making Machines. 

He has been an active member of the Stevens Institute Alumni Associa- 
tion since its organization, was its Treasurer from 1879 to 1889, a Director for 
several terms, and Vice-President in 1894. In 1892, when the Alumni Associa- 
tion decided to raise a fund for the erection of an Alumni Building, Prof. Riesen- 
berger was made custodian, and later, with President Morton, a trustee of the fund. 
He served in this capacity until 1900, when the securities comprising the fund were 
transferred to the Trustees of the Institute. 

He has been a member of the American Society of Mechanical Engineers 
since 1890. He is a member of the Beta Theta Pi and Tau Beta Pi fraternities. 




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When his present term as member of the Board of Education of the Town of 
Union, N. J., expires, he will have served twelve years in that office. He was one 
of the incorporators, and a director for ten years, of the Hudson Trust & Savings 
Institution (now the Hudson Trust Co.) of Hudson County; is vice-president of 
the Hoboken Trust Company ; has been a director of the Hoboken Building & 
Loan Association for fourteen years ; and was for several years vice-president of 
the Town of Union Building & Loan Association. He is also a trustee of the Old 
People's Home Bene^'olent iVssociation of North Hudson County. When the 
Library Association of the Town of Union was organized, he was elected a trus- 
tee and was its first secretary. The Free Library then established was supported 
with funds raised by private subscriptions until, by a legislative enactment, it 
could be supported by the taxpayers of the town. 

In 1878 Professor Riesenberger married Antoinette Schlemm, who died 
June 27, 1880. This union was blessed with one daughter, Antoinette. On De- 
cember 18, 1 88 1, he married Sophie Werner, and to them have been born six 
children, Kate, Florence, Edwin Adam, Otto John, Elsie, and Frank Riesen- 
berger. 



LT.-COM. CLARENCE ALFRED CARR, U.S.N. 

Professor of Marine Engineering, i8S^-i886 

Clarence A. Carr, Lieutenant-Commander, United States Navy, was born 
July 26, 1856, in Crawford County, Pennsylvania. He was educated at a pub- 
lic school in the country until, after a 
competitive examination, he entered the 
United States Naval Academy as a cadet 
engineer in September, 1875. After grad- 
uating at the Academy in June, 1879, he 
served in the junior grades of the engi- 
neer corps of the navy, doing duty at sea 
on the " Kearsarge," " Omaha," " Mo- 
nocacy," " Marion," and " Marblehead." 
In the intervals between cruises he did 
duty on shore as Professor of Marine 
Engineering and Instructor in Mathemat- 
ics at the Stevens Institute of Technology 
(1883-1886), at the Bureau of Steam 
Engineering, at the New York Navy 
Yard, and as inspector of machinery build- 
ing for the navy in New York city, South 
Prof. c. A. Carr Boston, Mass., and Newport News, Va. 




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At the beginning of the Spanish-American war he had charge of the work 
on machinery necessary to fit for service the auxihary cruisers " Panther," " Bad- 
ger," " Resolute," and " Gloucester," and later served as chief engineer of the 
ammunition and ordnance transport "Armeria." 

The Personnel Bill, which united the line and the engineer corps of the 
navy, gave him the rank of lieutenant (for engineering duty) from March 3, 1899. 
Since that time he has served at sea, in China and the Philippines, on the " Monad- 
nock," the " Bennington," and the " Solace," and ashore at the Cavite naval sta- 
tion and as inspector of repairs and supplies for the navy at Hongkong. He was 
commissioned lieutenant-commander September 28, 1901. 



WILLIAM HENRY BRISTOL, M.E. 



Professor of Mathematics 



WiLiJAM H. Bristol, son of Benjamin H. and Pauline (Phelps) Bristol, 
both of English descent, was born in Waterbury, Conn., July 5, 1859. He stud- 
ied at the public schools at Naugatuck, 
Conn., until 1876, when he became clerk 
in a general store at that place, in which 
position he remained until 1880. In the 
fall of that year he entered the Stevens 
Institute with the Class of 1884. Dur- 
ing his Junior year he organized the man- 
ual-instruction department in the Work- 
ingman's School, New York, and began 
teaching there, at the same time contin- 
uing his course of study at the Institute, 
from which he was graduated in 1884 
with the degree of Mechanical Engineer. 
He continued to teach at the Working- 
man's School until 1886, when he re- 
signed this position to accept that of 
Instructor in Mathematics at the Ste- 
vens Institute of Technology, and two 
years later he became Assistant Profes- 
sor in that department. He was appointed Professor of Mathematics in 1899. 

In 1885 Professor Bristol married J. Louise Wright, who died three years 
later. On June 28, 1899, he married Elise H. Myers. 

He is a member of the American Society of Alechanical Engineers and a 
Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science. 

In addition to carrying on his instruction in the Department of Mathe- 




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Fig. I. — Recording Pressure 
Gauge 



Fig. 2. — Inierior of Recording 
Pressure Gauge 



matics at the Institute he has, during the past fourteen years, devoted considerable 
attention to inventing, experimentally perfecting, and manufacturing a series of 

recording instruments 
adapted to make con- 
tinuous records of 
pressure, temperature, 
and electricity. As 
indicating the charac- 
ter of Prof. Bristol's 
work in this direction 
we give a brief illus- 
trated description of 
several of the more 
important instruments. 
The recording 
pressure gauge, as 
shown in the accom- 
panying illustration, 
Eig. I, is complete and ready for use. In the second illustration, the front 
of the case has been removed to show the operative portions of the instrument. 
It will be seen that the design is such that no multiplying devices are necessary 
to secure sufficient movement of the pen for making the record. The pressure to 
be recorded acts directly upon a helical tube of flattened cross-section. The pen- 
arm is fastened to the free end of this tube, and is turned with it through angles 
corresponding to the changes of pressure. The pen makes a record with ink upon 
a circular chart which is revolved by a clock movement. The charts are gradu- 
ated by concentric circles representing various ranges of pressure, and by radial 
arcs corresponding to the time of day. This type of gauge is regularly manufac- 
tured for all ranges of pressure between 12 pounds and 10,000 pounds per square 
inch. Eor extremely low ranges of pressure, where the total scales are between 
one ounce and ten pounds per square inch, the helical tube is replaced by a sys- 
tem of corrugated diaphragms which offer a greater area for the low pressure to 
act upon. Gauges of this class are employed for recording the distributing pres- 
sures of illuminating gas. 

Prof. Bristol's recording thermometers involve an application of the work- 
ing principle described in the above-mentioned pressure gauges. Three types of 
recording thermometers are made, as follows : 

I. Those for atmospheric ranges of temperature in which the helical tube 
of the pressure gauge is completely filled with a liquid such as alcohol, and the 
operation depends upon the direct expansion of the liquid enclosed to produce a 
pressure which is recorded upon a chart having graduations representing degrees 
of temperature. This type of thermometer is made in two forms, — one in which 



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the helical tube is enclosed within the case of the recorder, and the other where the 
sensitive bulb portion is connected by a capillary tube so that the recorder may be 
located within doors for recording outside temperature, as illustrated in Fig. 3. 

II. Those for ranges of temperature between 150° and 500° Fahrenheit, 
in which the bulb is connected with the recorder by a capillary tube of the desired 
length, and in which the operation depends upon the pressure of the vapor of a 
liquid enclosed within the bulb, which is exposed to the temperature to be record- 
ed. This type is illustrated in Fig. 4, from which it will be seen that the bulb 
may readily be caused to record temperatures of liquids flowing in pipes, or of 
gases in closed spaces. The records made by this type of thermometer are abso- 
lutely independent of changes of temperature at the recorder, or at points be- 
tween the recorder and the bulb, since the pressure communicated to the recorder 
depends entirely upon the pressure of the vapor within the heated bulb. 

III. Recording thermometers adapted for ranges from 0° to 800° Fahren- 
heit, which are an application of the working principle of the recording pressure 
gauge, where the operative force is the expansion of an inert gas which is en- 
closed within a bulb and connected to the recorder by a capillary tube of conve- 
nient length. 




Fig. 3.— Recording Thermometer for Atmospheric Ranges of Temperature 



The electrical recorders include volt, ampere, and watt meters for both al- 
ternating and direct currents. Fig. 6 represents the recording voltmeter complete, 
with the case removed in order to show the principle of its operation. A solenoid 
is supported by knife-edge springs, and is free to move toward a stationary sole- 
noid when they are mutually attracted to each other by a current of electricity of 
which the voltage is to be measured. The recording pen is secured directly to 
the end of one of the supporting knife-edge springs, and partakes of its angular 



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motion, carrying the pen over the entire scale of the chart without other multi- 
plying devices. The recording ampere meters are made with a stationary solenoid 




Fig. 4.— Recording Thermometer for Closed Spaces 



-Interior of Recording 

Thermometer 



as in the voltmeter, but a very light iron armature is substituted for the movable 
solenoid. The movable armature is of special design to produce a scale which is 
nearly uniformly divided. The pen is carried by one of the supporting knife-edge 

springs, such as are used in the recording 
voltmeters. Recording wattmeters are 
made by replacing the stationary solenoid 
of the recording voltmeter with one 
having the proper winding to carry 
the entire current to be measured. The 
mutual attraction of the volt and am- 
pere coils gives a deflection of the pen- 
arm proportional to the watts of the 
circuit. 

Up to the present time Prof. Bris- 
tol has developed over four hundred dif- 
ferent varieties of the above-mentioned 
instruments, to meet almost every indus- 
trial requirement, and additions are con- 
tinually being made. Thousands of the 
instruments have been sold and are in 
daily use. 
Illustrated descriptions of the above and other inventions of Prof. Bris- 
tol may be found in the following publications: 




-Interior of Recording 
Voltmeter 



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A New Recording Pressure Gauge. Trans. A. S. M. E-^, XI, 225, 1890. 

A New Recording Pressure Gauge for Extremely Low Ranges of Temperature. 
Ibid., XIV, 325, 1893. 

A New Recording Pressure Gauge for Extremely High Ranges of Temperature. 
Ibid., XV, 1,119, 1894. 

A Recording Voltmeter. El. Eng.', Oct. 11, 1893. 

A Recording Wattmeter. Ibid., June 6, 1894. 

A Recording Ampere Meter. Ibid., March 20, 1895. 

A Recording Thermometer for Closed Spaces. Sci. Am.''. September i, 1894. 

A Recording Thermometer for Atmospheric Ranges of Temperature. Ibid., March 
7, 1896. 

New Atmospheric Range Recording Thermometer for Closed Spaces. El. Eng., 
July 29, 1897. 

A New Recording Air Pyrometer. Trans. A. S. M. E., XXIII, 143, 1902. 

Bristol's Patent Belt-Lacing (illustrated descriptions). Sci. Am., August 24, 1889; 
April 14, 1894. 

In the year 1889 he organized The Bristol Company for the purpose of 
manufacturing his inventions. At the World's Columbian Exposition in Chicago 
in 1893 his company was awarded a medal and diploma for the recording instru- 
ments and steel belt-lacing exhibited. 

On March 5, 1890, the Committee on Sciences and Arts of the Franklin 
Institute, of Philadelphia, awarded him the John Scott Legacy medal and pre- 
mium for his sinuous-tube recording pressure gauge, and on January 3, 1894, the 
Franklin Institute also awarded him the Edward Longstreth medal of merit for 
his diaphragm gauge for extremely low ranges of pressure. Prof. Bristol's in- 
struments were exhibited by the Bristol Company at the Paris Exposition in 
1900, and were awarded a silver medal. 

The following United States patents have been granted to Prof. Bristol : 

Expansion Device for Galvanometers, 1888 Recording Ampere Meter, 1895 

Pressure Indicator and Recorder, 1888 Electrical Measuring Instrument, 1895 

Belt-Fastener, 1889 Recording Thermometer, 1896 

Pressure Indicator and Recorder, 1890 Steel Belt-Lacing, 1898 

Photographic Camera, 1890 Multiplying Device for Recording Instruments, 

Electric Meter, 1890 1899 

Pen, 1891 Method of Manufacturing Steel Belt-Lacing, 

Photographic Camera, 1892 1899 

Camera Shutter (two patents), 1892 Design for Recording-Instrument Case, 1899 

Recording Voltmeter, 1893 Damping Device for Electrical Recorders, 

Pressure Gauge, 1894 1900 

Pressure Gauge, 1894 Recording Air Pyrometer (with E. H. Bris- 

Recording Pressure Gauge (with E. H. tol), 1900 

Bristol), 1894 Thermometer-Thermostat (with E. H. Bris- 
Temperature Compensating Device, 1894 tol), 1903 

Record Sheet for Recording Instruments, 1904 

1 " Transactions of the American Society of Mechanical Engineers." 
- " Electrical Engineer." ^ " Scientific American." 



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ALBERT FREDERICK GANZ, M.E. 

Professor of Electrical Engineering 

Albert F. Ganz, son of Albert and Helen T. Ganz, was born in Elber- 
feld, Germany, April 25, 1872, and came to this country with his parents in 1881, 
settling in New York city. After attending private and public schools he entered 
the College- of the City of New York in 1886, and completed the first year's work 

in the mechanical course. He then de- 
termined to become an electrical engineer, 
and, in order to learn the practical side, 
entered the electrical works of Berginann 
& Co., New York, as an apprentice. Af- 
ter three years in the shops he was made 
assistant electrician, working in the test- 
ing and designing departments. He re- 
mained with the firm in this capacity until 
its absorption by the Edison Genera] Elec- 
tric Co., of Schenectady, and held the 
same position with that company until 
1892. While with Bergmann & Co. he 
attended the Cooper Union Night School 
for four years, taking courses in mechan- 
ical drawing, mathematics, and physics. 
Feeling the need of a thorough 
technical training he left the Edison Gen- 
eral Electric Co. in the summer of 1892 
to prepare for the course of study at Stevens Institute; in the fall of that year 
he entered the Sophomore class and graduated in 1895 with the degree of Mechan- 
ical Engineer. Dtn-ing the summer of the latter year he taught mathematics in the 
Long Island Chautauqua Summer School at Point o' Woods, under Professor 
Webb, whom he also assisted in resurveying the grounds. 

In the fall of 1895 he was appointed Instructor in Applied Electricity in 
Stevens Institute, and immediately began to work with Dr. Geyer in developing 
the electrical course so as to keep it abreast with the rapid progress in this science. 
After the death of Prof. Mayer in 1897 President Morton and Dr. Geyer took 
up the class-room work in physics, and Prof. Ganz was called upon to assist in 
this work in addition to his duties in the Electrical Department. His title was 
at this time changed to Assistant Professor of General Physics and Applied 
Electricity. He continued his work in the two departments until December, 
1902, when Applied Electricity was separated from Physics and he was promot- 
ed to Professor of Applied Electricity and placed in charge of the Department, 




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the name of which was changed to the Department of Electrical Engineering in 
1903. Being relieved of the work of Physics, he devoted himself entirely 
to Electrical Engineering and began a systematic revision of the Laboratory 
equipment, installing two new slate switchboards, completely rewiring the lab- 
oratories, and installing a large amount of new apparatus to supplement and 
partly take the place of some of the older types. He was greatly assisted in this 
work by the generous donations made to the Department by a number of gradu- 
ating classes, and also by some of the leading electrical manufacturers. He also 
developed a series of lecture and laboratory notes which are used by the Junior 
and Senior classes. 

In addition to his work of instruction and of developing the electrical 
course, he has been frequently engaged by both private parties and public bodies 
to make commercial and scientific tests, to examine and report on new electrical 
devices,, and to give expert testimony in lawsuits involving electrical problems. 
He has also given a number of popular lectures on " Wireless Telegraphy," " The 
Nernst Lamp," " History and Development of Electric Lighting," " Color," etc. 
He has made trips to Europe on several occasions, visiting the leading electrical 
works and technical schools, and has made a detailed study of their equipments 
and methods. He has also contributed several articles to the " Stevens Institute 
Indicator." 

Prof. Ganz is a member of the American Institute of Electrical Engi- 
neers; the American association for the Advancement of Science; the Society 
for the Promotion of Engineering Education; the New York Electrical Society; 
and the Tau Beta Pi fraternity. From 1899 to 1902 he was Treasurer of the 
Stevens Alumni Association. 

He married Antonia Christina Stursberg, June 21, 1902. They have one 
son. Albert Gustav Ganz. 



FRANKLIN DeRONDE FURMAN, M.E. 

Professor of Mechanical Drawing and Designing 

Franklin DeR. Furman, son of John Lewis and Adelia Catherine (De 
Ronde) Furman, was born in Ridgely, Caroline County, Md., August 30, 1870. 
His parents were respectively of Holland and of French descent, and on both sides 
the families were among the early settlers in the southeast section of New York 
State. After a short residence in Maryland the family removed to Monsey, Rock- 
land County, N. Y., and later, in 1881, settled in Jersey City, N. J. Franklin, the 
eldest son, received his early schooling at Monsey, and in the public grammar 
schools of Jersey City. He then attended Hasbrouck Institute, Jersey City, for 
three years, and upon graduation, in 1888, entered business in New York, where 
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In the fall of 1889 he entered Stevens Institute, and was graduated with 
his Class in 1893, receiving the degree of Mechanical Engineer. He was one of 
the organizers of the " Stevens Life " in his Freshman year, and continued as its 
business manager for three years, during which time he was actively engaged on 
the " Link " and in various college enterprises. He was president of his Class during 

the Junior year, and at the graduating ex- 
ercises he delivered the valedictory ad- 
dress. Previous to his graduation he 
accepted a temporary position in the De- 
partment of Drawing in the Stevens In- 
stitute, and later, during the summer, was 
asked to return as an assistant in the same 
department, instructing in the Freshman 
and Sophomore classes. In addition to 
his duties in the Drawing Department he 
assisted in the surveying work of the De- 
partment of Mathematics for two years, 
and had charge of the Department of Me- 
chanical Drawing in the Stevens School 
from 1894 to 1900. During the year 
1894-95 he organized and established the 
elementary course in mechanical drawing 
which has since been pursued in the 
School, and has been adopted in other 
preparatory institutions. During the abo\'e period he also arranged an advanced 
course in draughting for a number of special students who subsequently obtained 
responsible positions. 

In May, 1897, he accepted the position of managing editor of the " Ste- 
vens Institute Indicator," a quarterly magazine, and the official organ of the 
Stevens Institute. He held this office, in addition to his Institute work, for five 
years, during which time the " Indicator " continued its prestige as a high-class 
technical college journal, each one of the twenty issues appearing regularly with 
original technical articles which were largely reprinted in prominent engineer- 
ing papers at home and abroad. During this period the " Indicator " also pros- 
pered financially, earning sufficient to pay off an old indebtedness amounting to 
over $1,000, and accvmutlating, in addition, a cash surplus of over $1,500. 

Prof. Furman was appointed, in the fall of 1899, to assist Prof. MacCord 
in the work of the Jimior and Senior classes in addition to his other duties. The 
following year he was relieved of the work of the lower classes and of the prepara- 
tory school, and his entire time was given to the development of the Junior and 
Senior work in drawing, and to his editorial duties. 

He was assigned the work of instruction in Valves, Valve Diagrams, and 




Prof. F. DeR. Furman 



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Valve Gears in 1901. Since then he has prepared and issued a complete set 
of notes for this course in the class-room work, including governors for steam- 
engines; and has also made an extensive revision of the notes for the designing 
work in this subject in the draughting-room. 

In the spring of 1902 Prof. Furman's position was advanced from As- 
sistant Professor of Mechanical Drawing to Associate Professor of Mechanical 
Drawing and Designing, and again in 1904 to the full professorship in these 
subjects. 

He resigned the editorship of the " Indicator " in the summer of 1902 to 
devote more time to the development of the Department of Mechanical Draw- 
ing and Designing, the scope of which had just previously been largely in- 
creased. During the collegiate year 1902-03 he prepared and issued a set of 
notes for a complete engine design. Several new exercises were also introduced, 
including the study of actual working blue-prints until a proficiency in reading 
them is demonstrated by ,the ability of the student to make free-hand isometric 
working drawings or pictures from the views given in the blue-print. During 
1903-04 he issued a set of notes for the Senior Class, giving the elementary prin- 
ciples involved in the calculations for columns, girders, beams, etc., and general 
directions with practical data for laying out foundations, and superstructures for 
buildings, towers, bridges, etc. 

For a number of years Prof. Furman has given much time to visiting, and 
studying the methods pursued and the practices followed in, the draughting-rooms 
and shops of the most prominent manufacturers in the East. During the summer 
of 1902 he visited several of the European countries. One of the concrete results 
of his observations is a tabulated review of standard draughting-room methods 
for reference in the Institute work. 

During the winter of 1900-01 President Morton called upon Prof. Fur- 
man to assist in the work of issuing the " Twenty-fifth Anniversary Volume," 
which had been in preparation for several years. He began by compiling the data 
for, and editing a chapter on the engineering work of the Stevens Family. He 
then devoted much time to the history of the Institute which was largely condensed 
from a very complete work that was done by him at the time of the Twenty-fifth 
Anniversary in 1897. Finally he completed the technical records of the alumni. 
Upon the death of President Morton in the spring of 1902, the responsible work 
of completing many unfinished items, the editing and the raising of funds for 
publishing the book, fell entirely to him. Early in 1903 Prof. Furman proposed 
that the book be changed from a " Twenty-fifth Anniversary Volume " to the " Mor- 
ton Memorial Volume " although such proposed departure from the original plan 
involved a radical change in the arrangement and size of the book, and in the char- 
acter of the subject-matter. This proposed change of plan was favored by all who 
were closely interested in the book. The revision of the text was begun in the 
spring of 1903, and in the fall of the same year the contract for printing was placed. 



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Prof. Furman gave his entire spare time to this work from 1900 to the day of the 
issue of the book. 

Prof. Furman is a member of the American Society of Mechanical Engi- 
neers, the Tau Beta Pi fraternity, and the Roseville Golf Club. From 1895 to 
1898 he was Corresponding Secretary of the Alumni Association of Stevens In- 
stitute of Technology, and then Director of the same for two years. 

On November 3, 1894, he married Minnie Adelaide Thompson, daughter 
of the late Col. William H. Thompson, of Brooklyn, N. Y. 



SAMUEL DAYTON GRAYDON, M.E. 

Assistant Professor of Mcclianical Draiving 

Samuel D. Graydon, son of Samuel and Ida (Dayton) Graydon, was born 
in New York city August 13, 1852. His paternal grandfather, John Graydon, 
was born in the north of Ireland, whither his ancestors had gone from the north 
of England at the time of Cromwell's invasion. John Graydon married Mary 

Whitley, and to them were born five sons 
and four daughters, all of whom came 
with their father to New York about 
1826. The sons established themselves 
in the dry-goods importing and jobbing 
trade, Samuel, John W., and Joseph in 
the firm of Graydon, Swanwick, & Co., 
and William and James in the firm of 
Graydon, McCreery, & Co. . 

Prof. Graydon's preparatory edu- 
cation was completed in 1868 at the Col- 
legiate Institute, New York. The fol- 
lowing year he went to Colorado with a 
view to prepare for the study of mining 
engineering; -but the death of his father 
in September, 1869, necessitated his re- 
turn home to care for the family. 

Entering Stevens Institute in Janu- 
asst.-prof. s. d. (;K^^„..N ^^.^^ ^g^^, he took the full course of study 

with the Class of 1875. Before graduating he was compelled to go west on 
business relating to his father's estate. In 1878 he entered the employ of Charles 
Vogt, in New York, with whom he remained till 1882, when he joined in organ- 
izing the Graydon & Denton Manufacturing Co., for the manufacture and sale 
of rock-drills and other machinery. From 1886 he was for several years connected 




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with the Harrison Safety Boiler Works, and in September, 1892, he received 
the appointment of Assistant Professor of Mechanical Drawing at Stevens 
Institute. 

In 1878 he married May Field, who died in 1886, leaving one son, Samuel, 
and three daughters, Winifred, Linda, and Fdith. In 1890 he married Mary A. 
MacDonald, and five children have been born to them, Whitley, Mary Constance, 
MacDonald, Kenneth, and Margaret Graydon. 



FREDERICK LINCOLN PRYOR, M.E. 

Assistant Professor of Experimental Engineering 

Frederick L. Pryor, son of Robert W. and Rachel A. (Walsh) Pryor, 
was born in Newark, N. J., April 6, 1875. He attended successively the primary, 
grammar, and high schools of that city. Before graduating from the high school 
he decided to enter the Stevens Institute in the approaching fall. In order to pre- 
pare himself more fully for the task of 
passing the entrance examinations, he 
left the public school and enrolled at the 
Stevens School for five months. With 
this preparatory education he entered the 
Institute with the Class of 1897. 

After completing the college course 
he was engaged as an Instructor in the 
Department of Mathematics, and a year 
later was transferred to the Department 
of Experimental Mechanics and Engi- 
neering Physics. Besides being an In- 
structor in this Department he became an 
Assistant in the Department of Tests. Fie 
was prominently identified in the super- 
vision of the construction of the Carnegie 
Laboratory of Engineering, and also had 
charge of the work of equipping the me- 
chanical department of the Laboratory. In 
the spring of 1901 he was appointed Assistant Professor of Experimental Mechan- 
ics and Engineering Physics, and when the Department of Buildings and Grounds, 
in conjunction with a Purchasing Department, was inaugurated at the Institute, 
he was appointed Assistant Superintendent. At the beginning of the year 1903 
he assumed charge of the course in Shop Work, and during the college year 1903- 
04 he carried on the work of the Department of Engineering Practice in the ab- 
sence of Prof. Denton. 




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For six months of the year 1902 he was at Buffalo, organizing an ex- 
perimental department for the American Radiator Co., returning to reassume his 
duties at the Institute at the beginning of the college year 1902-03. 

He is a member of the American Society of Mechanical Engineers, and 
was for two years Recording Secretary of the Alumni Association of the Stevens 
Institute. He is also a member of the Tau Beta Pi fraternity. 



FRANK LOUIS SEVENOAK, A.M., M.D. 

Assistant Professor of English and Logic 

Frank L. Sevenoak, son of Francis Giles and Evelina Bloodgood (De 
Witt) Sevenoak, was born in Sterling, N. Y., October 8, 1858. He was graduated 

from Princeton University in 1879, and 
from the College of Physicians and Sur- 
geons, New York, in May, 1883, taking 
one of the Harsen prizes for proficiency. 
He came to the Stevens School as Instruc- 
tor in 1883, and in 1887 was made As- 
sistant Principal, which office he still 
holds. In 1902 the position of As- 
sistant Professor of English and Logic 
was created in the Institute course, and 
he was selected to take up this work. 

Dr. Sevenoak has prepared, for 
use in American colleges and schools, edi- 
tions of the Hall and Knight " Algebras," 
and the Schultze and Sevenoak " Geom- 
etry." He also prepared the Seven- 
oak " Logarithmic Tables." All of these 
works are published by the Macmillan 
Company of New York, 
in December, 1886. He is a member of 
the Princeton Club, and of the Psi Upsilon fraternity. 




ASRT.-I'ROP. V. L. Sf.venoak 

He married Emily Van Zandt 



EDWIN ROE KNAPP, M.E. 

Assistant Professor of Mechanical Drawing 

Edwin R. Knapp, son of William H. and Mary I. (Hammond) Knapp, 
was born in Jersey City, N. J., March 21, 1871. He is descended from Anglo- 
Saxon ancestors who settled in New England in 1630. His early education was 



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received in the public schools of Newark and Red Bank, N. J., and he was gradu- 
ated from the high school at Red Bank in 1887. 

With the intention of entering college the following year, he took a position 
as grocery clerk with his father; but a serious injury to his knee, received while 
at work six months later, prevented the 
carrying out of his plan. The next five 
years were chiefly occupied with efforts 
toward recovery. In January, 1890, how- 
ever, he became the representative of the 
American Biscuit & Manufacturing Co., 
to their New Jersey seashore trade, and 
later took charge of the dry-goods branch 
of his father's business. 

In 1892 he decided to carry out 
his original plan, and entered Stevens 
School to prepare for Stevens Institute. 
In 1893 he entered the Institute, and 
was graduated with his Class in 1897. 
During his college course he was presi- 
dent of the Engineering Society for one 
year, and, upon election to the Tau Beta 
Pi honorary fraternity, was made the sec- 
ond president of the chapter. At the close 
of his Junior year he was offered and accepted a position, for the summer vacation, 
with the Shore Electric Co., at Red Bank, N. J., as operating engineer in charge of 
plant. The station was equipped with direct and alternating- current dynamos and 
supplied current for trolley purposes and for commercial and mvinicipal lighting. 

In June, 1897, following his graduation, he secured an engagement at the 
then new 2,500-horse-power electric light and power plant at Orange, N. J., where 
he had been making a test for thesis purposes. His duties included the supervi- 
sion of alterations in the electrical equipment, and the installation of new machines, 
in addition to the testing and repairing of several hundred meters and arc lamps. 
This plant, in conjunction with those in Newark and Jersey City, was owned and 
operated by the People's Light & Power Co., and about March i, 1898, he was 
transferred to the position of second assistant to the general superintendent in the 
main offices of the company at Newark, N. J. 

In December, 1898, he became superintendent of construction to the Law- 
rence Gas Co., at Lawrence, Mass., which owned and operated both the gas and 
electric-light plants of the city. While with this company he designed a new 
power house equipped with four water turbines aggregating 1,700-horse-power 
capacity, with a reserve of 750 steam horse-power to be used in the emergency of 
low water-supply. 




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2 78 THE STEVENS INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY 

In June, 1900, he was app(iinted Instructor in the Department of Mechan- 
ical Drawing- at Stevens Institute. This appointment included also that of In- 
structor in Mechanical Drawing at the Stevens School. In September, 1902, he 
resigned the latter position in the School to accept that of Instructor in Calcula- 
tions of Tests in the Department of Experimental Engineering in the Institute. 
In December, 1902, he was advanced to the rank of Assistant Professor of Me- 
chanical Drawing, retaining also the post of Instructor in Calculations of Tests 
in Experimental Engineering. At the close of the college year 1902-03 he re- 
signed from the Department of Experimental Engineering to devote his entire 
time to the Freshman-Sophomore work in the Department of Mechanical Draw- 
ing and Designing, added responsibilities and duties having devolved upon him 
through the appointment of Prof. Riesenberger to the additional office of Regis- 
trar of the Institute. 

Professor Knapp is Treasurer of the Alumni Association of the Stevens 
Institute of Technology, to which office he was elected in June, 1902. He is also 
a member of the Roseville Golf Club. 

Upon his appointment to the Institute in 1900 he took up his residence in 
Hoboken, N. J., and became a member, l)y letter, of the First Methodist Episcopal 
Church. He was made a member of its official board in January, 1902, and was 
elected a steward in January, 1904, at the close of his second term of office as pres- 
ident of Chapter 18 of the Epworth League, the local chapter of the young people's 
organization of the Metliodist Episcopal Church. He is also a teacher in the home 
and mission Sunday Schools of tlie church, and a member of the executive commit- 
tee on deaconess work in Hoboken, Jersey City, and the surrounding district. 



WILLIAM J. MOORE, M.E. 

Assistant Professor of Electrical Engineering 

William J. Moore, son of Francis A. and Mary P. Moore, was born in 
Metuchen, N. J., September 19, 1878. On his mother's side he is a descendant, in 
the eighth generation, of Roger Williams, founder of Rhode Island. His grand- 
father was an English clergyman. He attended the public schools at Metuchen 
until his twelfth year, when he entered the Rutgers College Preparatory School at 
New Brunswick. After two years" study at this place his parents moved to 
Brooklyn, N. Y., where he continued his preparatory education. In the fall of 
1896 he entered Stevens Institute. 

Upon receiving the degree of Mechanical Engineer in 1900 he took a posi- 
tion in the Belleville Copper Rolling Mills at Soho, N. J., where he was engaged 
as assistant to the superintendent of machinery, being employed upon the designs 
for the plate-rolling mill and for general construction work ; he also assisted in 
the installation of a boiler and engine plant at the company's works. He had been 



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Asst.-Prof. W. J. Moore 



in this position a short time when called 
to become an Instructor during the Sup- 
plementary Term work at the Stevens In- 
stitute. At the end of the term he was 
offered the position of Instructor in the 
Department of General Physics and 
Applied Electricity. He has been en- 
gaged in electrical testing work and has 
assisted in conducting investigations of 
an original character. In December, 
1902, he was advanced to his present po- 
sition as Assistant Professor of Electrical 
Engineering. He is a member of the 
New York Electrical Society, and of the 
Tau Beta Pi fraternity. 

He married Marie Fay Bateman, 
November 28, 1900. They have one 
child, William Francis Moore. 



CHARLES OTTO GUNTHER, M.E. 

Assistant Professor of Mathcinafics 



Charles O. Gunther was born 
parents being Otto and Anna (Eybel) 
Gunther. He studied in the public schools 
in New York and Brooklyn, and in the 
Stevens School, from which he entered 
Stevens Institute in 1896. 

After graduation he was engaged 
first as Instructor during the Supplemen- 
tary Term and then as Instructor in 
Mathematics. In December, 1902, he 
was given the title of Assistant Professor 
of Mathematics. The following year he 
was transferred to the Department of 
Mechanical Drawing with the same title. 

His work at the Institute recjuired 
only part of his time at first, and he took 
up the study of patent work in the office 
of J. M. Hicks, a patent expert in New 
York. In April, 1902, he established his 



New York city May 21, 1879, his 




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28o THE STEVENS INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY 

own ofifice in New York as mechanical engineer and patent attorney. During the 
summer of 1902 he accepted the position of managing editor of the " Stevens In- 
stitute Indicator," but on account of ill health he was obliged to resign this office 
early in 1904. 

He is a junior member of the American Society of Mechanical Engineers, 
a member of the New York Electrical Society, and of the Tau Beta Pi fraternity. 

He married Beatrice Disbrow, February 19, 190 1. 



FRANCIS J. POND, M.A., Ph.D. 

Assistant Professor of Engineering Chemistry 

Francis J. Pond, son of Abel and Lucy A. Pond, was born in Holliston, 
Mass., which place was his home for seventeen years. His early education was 
received in the public schools of Holliston. 

In the fall of 1888 he entered The Pennsylvania State College, and was 
graduated in the chemical course with the Class of 1892, receiving the degree of 

Bachelor of Science. During the col- 
lege year 1892-93, he pursued post-grad- 
uate work in chemistry at the State 
College, and in the following year he was 
appointed Assistant in Chemistry at the 
same institution. In October, 1894, he 
entered the University of Gottingen, Ger- 
lany, to continue the study of chemistry, 
as well as of mineralogy and physics. 
In February, 1896, upon the completion 
of an original investigation and after an 
oral examination, he received the degrees 
of Master of Arts and Doctor of Philoso- 
phy {magna ciiui laudc). In April, 1896, 
he entered the Royal Mining Academy 
in Freiberg, Germany, where he studied 
especially the subjects of metallurgy and 
metallurgical chemistry. 

Asst.-Prof. Francis T. Pond t .1 r ,, c n ^ , ^ 

In the fall of 1896 he returned to 
The Pennsylvania State College as Instructor of Chemistry and Assaying, and was 
subsequently advanced by being made Assistant Professor of the same branches. 
In August, 1903, he resigned his position at the State College to accept the As- 
sistant Professorship of Engineering Chemistry at Stevens Institute. 

He is the author of " Notes on Assaying," and of the English edition of 
Dr. Heusler's monograph, " Die Terpene " ; the latter work is published by P. 




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Blakiston's Son & Co., Philadelphia, under the title " The Chemistry of the 
Terpenes," and is the recognized standard work on this line of chemistry. He 
has also contributed a number of articles to the " Journal of the American Chem- 
ical Society," these contributions embracing the results of original research 
conducted by himself and students. During his college course he was a mem- 
ber of the Sigma Chi fraternity, and was later elected to membership in the 
honorary society Phi Kappa Phi. He is also a member of the American Chem- 
ical Society. 

He was married, June 10, 1902, to Nellie, daughter of Charles and Emma 
Olds, Circleville, Ohio. 



CLIFFORD BLONDEL LE PAGE, M.E. 

Instructor in Physics 

Clifford B. Le Page, son of Nicholas and Rachel E. (Le Brocq) Le Page, 
was born in New York city March 28, 1879. Both of his parents are natives of 
the Channel Islands, having come to this country in the early 'seventies. 

Mr. Le Page received his early education in the public schools of Brook- 
lyn and Mount Vernon, and was prepared for Stevens Institute at the Mount 
Vernon high school and at the Stevens 
School. He was graduated from Stevens 
Institute with the degree of Mechanical 
Engineer in 1902. While preparing for 
college, and during the first two years at 
the Institute, he filled in succession the 
various positions in a surveying party, 
such as rod-man, chain-man, leveller, and 
transit-man. During the college year of 
1899-1900 he was in charge of a survey- 
ing party of five employed by Mr. G. W. 
Drumheller, C.E., of Mount Vernon, 
N. Y., who did all kinds of municipal 
surveying and railroad work. 

For six months after graduation 
he was employed in the Metropolitan sales 
office of the United Telpherage Co., 
when he was transferred to the company's 
designing department at their factory in c. B. Le Page 

Westfield, N. J. This latter position he resigned in March, 1902, to accept his pres- 
ent one as Instructor in the Department of Physics at Stevens Institute. 

He is a member of the Sigma Nu fraternity. 




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WILLIAM ALLEN SHOUDY, M.E. 

histritctor in Experimental Engineering 

William A. Shoudy, son of Joseph Allen and Caroline (Travis) Shoudy, 
was born in Brooklyn, N. Y., April 5, 1878. He entered Stevens Institute in 

the fall of 1895, and was graduated with 
the degree of Mechanical Engineer in 
1899. He entered the employ of the 
Fuller Cotton Machine Co., of New York 
city, where he remained until the fall of 
1899, when he accepted an engagement 
with the Oxnard Construction Co. 

During the year 1900 he was em- 
ployed for a few weeks on work for the 
Tripler Liquid Air Co., and then accepted 
a position in the New York office of the 
Harrison Safety Boiler Works Co., of 
Philadelphia, where he remained for two 
years. Resigning then, he entered the 
employ of the American Linseed Co., and 
later of the D'Olier Engineering Co., of 
Philadelphia. He remained with the lat- 
ter company until September, 1903, when 
he accepted his present position as Instruc- 
tor in Experimental Engineering at Stevens Institute. Since January, 1904, Mr. 
Shoudy has also been Managing Editor of the " Stevens Institute Indicator." He 
is a junior member of the American Society of Mechanical Engineers. 




W. A. Shoudy 



LOUIS ADOLPHE MARTIN, JR., M.E., A.M. 

Instructor in Mathematics and Mcclianics 

Louis A. Martin, Jr., the son of Louis Adolphe and Pauline Justine Mar- 
tin, both Swiss, of Huguenot origin, from Geneva, was born in Hoboken, N. J., 
November 5, 1880. On completing the course at Hoboken Academy, young Mar- 
tin was awarded the Stevens Scholarship. He was Instructor in Mathematics, 
Physics, and Chemistry at Hoboken Academy, and Instructor in Applied Elec- 
tricity (evening classes) at Cooper Union, New York, during the academic year' 
of 1900-01. During the following year he retained his position at the Hoboken 
Academy, and was a Lecturer in Physics at the Mechanics' Institute (evening 
classes) New York. In addition to these regular positions, he has been busily en- 
gaged in private tutoring and coaching. He was also engaged as Instructor in 
Experimental Mechanics during the Supplementary Terms of 1900 and 1902 



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L. A. Martin, Jr. 



at Stevens Institute. In 1902 he re- 
signed the above positions and matricu- 
lated in the School of Pure Science, 
Columbia University, choosing as his 
subjects, mechanics, mathematics, and 
physics. The degree of Master of Arts 
was conferred upon him in the summer 
of 1903. He is still engaged in tutoring 
and coaching at Hoboken and at Colum- 
bia University. During the summer of 
1903 he was appointed Instructor in 
Mathematics and Mechanics at the Ste- 
vens Institute. He is a member of the 
American Association for the Advance- 
ment of Science, the American ]\Iathe- 
matical Society, and the Tau Beta Pi 
fraternity. 

He was married, June 30, 1904, to 
Alwynne Elaine Buttlar. 



HARRY WEEKS JOHNSON, M.E. 

Instnictor in Mechanical Draiving and Designing 

Harry W. Johnson, son of James Henry and Annie Ross (Weeks) John- 
son, was born in Orange, N. J., July 
14, 1881. His ancestors on his father's 
side were of English, and on his mother's 
side of Puritan descent. Seven years of 
his early hfe were spent in Michigan, in 
the cities of Jackson and Muskegon, in 
which places he received all but a few 
months of his primary and grammar 
school education. 

In the spring of 1895 he went to 
Newark, N. J., and was graduated from 
the grammar school in June of that year, 
and from the high school in 1899. He 
entered Stevens Institute in the fall of 
the same year and was graduated in June, 
1903, delivering the valedictory address 
at the Commencement exercises. While 

at Stevens he was elected to member- 

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ship in the honorary society, Tau Beta Pi, for high scholarship, and was active 
in student enterprises. He was twice elected president of his class, serving during 
his junior and senior years, and was president of the Athletic Association for 
one year. 

Mr. Johnson accepted a position with the Rockwell Engineering Co., and 
commenced his duties with them, some two weeks before graduation. In Sep- 
tember, 1903, he was appointed Instructor in Mathematics at the Newark Evening 
Technical School. In October following he resigned his position with the Rock- 
well Engineering Co. to accept his present one of Instructor in Mechanical Draw- 
ing and Designing at the Stevens Institute of Technology. 



SAMUEL HOFMANN LOTT, M.E. 

Instructor in Mechanical Drazvins; 



Samuel H. Lott, son of Isaac W. and Annie (Hofmann) Lott was born 
in Jersey City, N. J., July 7, 1881. Four years later his family moved to Union 
Hill, N. J., where he attended the public schools, graduating in 1897. He then 

spent two years in the Stevens Prepara- 
tory School before entering the Stevens 
Institute from which he received the de- 
gree of Mechanical Engineer in 1903. 

During his junior and senior years 
he had charge of the courses in machine 
shop practice and wood turning in the de- 
partment of Manual Training at the Mont- 
clair High School at Montclair, N. J.; 
and since December, 1904, he has been 
in charge of the department of Mechanical 
and Architectural Drawing at Drake's 
Business College, Jersey City, N. J. 

After graduation from Stevens In- 
stitute and up to the time of his appoint- 
ment to his present position he was em- 
ployed in the draughting-room of the 
Rockwell Engineering Co., New York ; 
±1. i.0TT ^g inspecting engineer by the Buffalo 

Forge Co., at their works in Buffalo, N. Y. ; and as assistant engineer in the engi- 
neering department of the New York Telephone Co., New York. 

He is a member of the Gamma chapter of the Sigma Nu fraternity. 




THE ALUMNI 



THE ALUMNI. 

The following" pages are devoted to brief biographical sketches of the 
graduates of the Stevens Institute of Technology, so far as it has been possible to 
obtain data. From the graduation of the first student in 1873, and ending with 
the graduating class of 1904, 1,088 men have received degrees from Stevens In- 
stitute, and every name is here recorded. All are in alphabetical order except the 
members of the classes of 1903 and 1904, who are grouped as explained on page 635. 

The aim in producing these sketches of Stevens graduates has been pri- 
marily to show the kind and quality of engineering work accomplished by techni- 
cal graduates, and also to show the high character and standing of the men who 
haA'e contributed so largely to founding the engineering profession and main- 
taining it as one of the learned vocations which in recent years has accomplished 
much in developing and perfecting mechanical appliances, and processes for the 
economical use of nature's resources. 

An en(lea\-or has been made to present a complete biography of each alum- 
nus along the lines set down in some detail in the preface. Uniform blanks were 
sent to every graduate, or. in the case of those deceased, to their relatives, where 
their names could l)e learned. Aljout twenty-five per cent of the total number, 
including those whose locations were miknown, failed to reply; and in such in- 
stances the name is merely mentioned in alphabetical order with whatever infor- 
mation could be obtained from a search of the Institute Catalogues, the yearly 
numliers of Avhich contain a list of the names of graduates, with their positions at 
the time. A number who replied with data regarding their engineering work 
refrained from making any statements regarding other features which go to make 
up a complete biography. 

Notwithstanding these deficiencies and the manifest incompleteness of the 
sketches, an examination of the records will show that the broad plan upon 
which the Institute's course of instruction was founded, and afterward developed, 
has borne, and is bearing natural fruit in fitting young men to occupy positions 
of responsibility in many fields of engineering work. 



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Abbey, Henry (M.E., '85), has been pro- 
fessionally engaged, since graduation, as 
superintendent of the Cowles Electric Smelt- 
ing Co., Lockport, N. Y. ; works manager of 
the Cowles Electric Syndicate, Ltd., Milton- 
Stoke-on-Trent, England, 1887-95; consult- 
ing engineer, London, England, 1895-97; 
electrician with the American Biograph Co., 
New York, 1897-98, and the American Bio- 
graph Syndicate, Ltd., London; and as me- 
chanical engineer with the Mutoscope and 
Biograph Syndicate, London. 

Abe, Keiichi (M.E., '99), has been engaged, 
since graduation, in professional work with 



Stearns-Roger Manufacturing Co., Colorado 
agents of the Ligersoll-Sergeant Drill Co., 
1891-92, and with Mr. James Breen, Butte, 
Montana, 1892-93. While with Mr. Breen, 
who had been engaged by Eastern capitalists 
to erect a copper-smelter at Durango, Colo., 
Mr. Ackerman was entrusted with the prep- 
aration of the plans and the superintendence 
of the construction of the plant. He also 
designed power-plants, office-buildings for 
mining companies, etc., and was engaged in 
examining mining properties and superin- 
tending their operation. From 1893 to 1896 
he was consulting engineer with the National 
Lead Co., for whom in 1895-96 he remod- 




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Carnegie Library, Washington, D.C. 
Ackerman &^ Ross, Archilects 



the Baldwin Locomotive Works, Philadel- 
phia, Pa.; with W. D. Forbes & Co., Ho- 
boken, N. J., 1899-1901 ; as draughtsman 
with the General Electric Co., Schenectady, 
N. Y., 1901-02; and with the Bucyrus Co., 
South Milwaukee, Wis., 1902-03. He is 
now at the Mitsu-Bishi Dockyard & Engi- 
neering Works, Nagasaki, Japan. 

Ackerman, William Sickles (M.E., '91), 
son of Simeon and Catherine Ann (Berdan) 
Ackerman, was born in Paterson, N. J., 
November 2, 1868. He was manager of the 
drill and air-compressor department of the 



elled the Philadelphia plant. A sectional 
view of the factory, in water-colors, was 
shown at the 25th Anniversary Exhibition of 
the work of the Alumni of the Institute in 
1897. From 1897 to 1902 he was a member 
of the firm of Ackerman & Ross, engineers 
and architects, New York. Their work in- 
cludes the Carnegie libraries at Washington, 
D. C; Atlanta, Ga. ; San Diego, Cal. ; Port 
Jervis, N. Y. ; and the Carnegie Laboratory 
of Engineering at Hoboken. In 1902 Mr. 
Ross resigned from the firm, and since then 
Mr. Ackerman has formed a partnership 
with Mr. W. T. Partridge, under the firm 



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name of Ackerman & Partridge. The Mor- 
ton Laboratory of Chemistry, illustrated on 
page 17 of the present volume, is the work 




W. S. Ackerman 

of this latter firm. Mr. Partridge, before 
associating with Mr. Ackerman, was in- 
structor in architecture in Columbia College. 
Mr. Ackerman is a member of the American 
Society of Mechanical Engineers, the Amer- 
ican Institute of Mining Engineers, the En- 
gineers' and Lotos clubs of New York; of 
the Hamilton Club, and North Jersey Coun- 
try Club of Paterson, N. J. ; and a non-resi- 
dent member of the Franklin Listitute. He 
was president of the Alumni Association of 
Stevens Institute, 1902-03. 

Adams, Harry Harris (M.E., '93), was 
born in Jersey City, N. J., January 7, 1871. 
After graduating he entered the service of 
the Consolidated Traction Co., of Jersey 
City, N. J., with whom he remained from 
1893 to 1902, holding successively the posi- 
tions of foreman of motor repair-shops, 
assistant electrical engineer of the company, 
and master mechanic of the North Jersey 
Street Railway Co., which absorbed the Con- 
solidated Traction Co. From 1902 to date he 
has been superintendent of shops for the 
United Railways and Electric Co., Balti- 
more, Md. In 1900 he took out a patent on 
a sectional rotary sweeper, an improvement 
on brooms or sweepers as applied to snow 



sweepers in particular. The invention facil- 
itates the refilling, handling, and repairs of 
the rotary broom, at the same time giving 
strength, lightness, and durability. He is a 
member of the New York Railroad Club and 
an associate member of the American Rail- 
way Mechanical and Electrical Association. 
Mr. Adams is the son of Charles S. and 
Mary Caldwell Adams. He married Agnes 
Collard, May 18, 1898, and they have one 
child, Harry Harris Adams, Jr. 

Adger, John Bailey (M.E., '83), was born 
in Charleston, S. C, April 19, 1858. His 
early education was obtained in Virginia, 
and he took the degree of M.A. from the 
University of Virginia in 1880. The follow- 
ing year he taught in the Preparatory De- 
partment of the University of Louisiana 
(now Tulane University), New Orleans. 
He entered Stevens Institute in 1881, and 
graduated two years later, becoming treas- 
urer and assistant manager of the Charleston 
Iron Works, 1883-84; member of the firm of 
James Adger & Co., steamship agents, from 
1885 to date; secretary and treasurer of the 
Coosaw Co., 1886-98; and president and 
treasurer from 1898 to date. He was presi- 
dent and treasurer of the Charleston Basket 
& Veneer Manufacturing Co., 1896-1902. 

Mr. Adger, who is the son of J. Ellison 
and Susan C. Adger, married Miss Warren, 
August 3, 1887. 




W. A. Adriance 



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Adriance, William Allen (M.E., '85), was 
born in Poughkeepsie, N. Y., February 6, 
1864. On graduation he became associated 
with the firm of Adriance, Piatt, & Co., man- 
ufacturers of agricultural machinery, Pough- 
keepsie, N. Y. He is now in charge of the 
purchasing and stock departments, and has 
general supervision of the company's plant, 
the erection of additions, etc. He is a mem- 
ber of the University, St. Nicholas, and 
Theta Xi Graduate clubs, the Holland So- 
ciety, and the Theta Xi fraternity. 

Mr. Adriance is the son of John Peter and 
Mary Jane Ruthven (Piatt) Adriance. He 
married Minnie B. Horton, May 20, 1888, 
and they have two children, Dorothy Allen, 
and William Allen Adriance, Jr. 

Aguilera, Antonio, Jr. (M.E., '86), was a 
sugar-refiner at Senado-Munos, Nuevitas, 
Cuba, up to the time of his death, August 23, 
1903. 

Ahrnke, Hans Paul (M.E., '99), son of 
August and Catherine Ahrnke, was born in 
Hoboken, N. J., October 28, 1878. He re- 
ceived most of his early schooling at the 
Hoboken Academy, where he gained the 
scholarship for Stevens Institute in 1895. He 
was Assistant Instructor at the Institute 
during the Supplementary Term, 1899, and 
the same year became draughtsman for the 
Fuller Cotton Machine Co., New York, de- 
signing cotton machinery. From 1899 to 
1902 he was draughtsman with Westing- 
house, Church, Kerr, & Co., New York, and 
in the latter year was employed in de- 
signing and constructing electric railway 
power plants in the engineering department 
of the same firm. Thence to date he has 
been engaged in similar work with the Brit- 
ish Westing-house Electric & Manufacturing 
Co., Ltd., London, England. He is a mem- 
ber of the Tau Beta Pi fraternity, and a 
junior member of the American Society of 
Mechanical Engineers. 

Alden, James Strong (M.E., '84), was born 
in Aldenville, Wayne County, Pa., February 
I, 1863; the son of Levi H. and Lois M. Al- 
den, the seventh generation from John Alden 
and Priscilla Mullens, who came to America 
with the Pilgrims in 1620. He assisted his 
father for several years in the manufacture 



of brick at Passaic, N. J., and has spent 
nearly all of his time since then in private 
study and investigation. In 1896 he pub- 
lished a pamphlet on " A Theory of the 




J. S. Alden 

Structure of Matter," which is based upon 
the assumption that an atom of matter con- 
sists of a vortex ring of luminiferous ether. 
After publishing the above he turned his at- 
tention to the problem of finding a cheaper 
and more efficient means of obtaining power 
from fuel, etc. From 1891 to 1900 he was 
an associate member of the American Insti- 
tute of Electrical Engineers. 

Aldrich, Roger Cyrenus (M.E., '99), was 
born in Boston, Mass., February 13, 1879. 
He received his early education in the pub- 
lic schools of Boston and of Passaic, N. J., 
and took the full course at Stevens Prepar- 
atory School, winning a scholarship to the 
Institute. On graduation he took up a course 
of work in each of the departments of the 
Anatron Chemical Co., Elizabethport, N. J., 
with a view to familiarizing himself with 
the various details of chemical manufactur- 
ing, later (1900) becoming draughtsman 
and works chemist at the Erie Chemical 
Works, Erie, Pa. He was superintendent 
of erections and additions to the Waterbury 
(Conn.) plant of the Franklin H. Kalbfleisch 
Co., manufacturing chemists, of New York, 
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(N. Y.) works of the same company, 1901 
to date. He is a member of the Tau Beta Pi 
fraternity ; of the Society of Chemical In- 
dustry; of Kane Lodge No. 454, Free and 
Accepted Masons; of Jerusalem Chapter No. 
8, Royal Arch Masons ; and of Coeur de Lion 
Commandery No. 23, Knights Templar. 

Mr. Aldrich is the son of Frank E. and 
Louise M. (Love) Aldrich. He married 
May A. Lock.e, October 16, 1901, and they 
have one child, Roger Williams Aldrich. 

Aldrich, William Sleeper (M.E., '84), was 
born in Philadelphia, Pa., March 3, 1863. 
He was graduated from the grammar school 
at Burlington, N. J., in 1878, and entered 
the United States Naval Academy by com- 
petitive examination in 1879 as cadet en- 
gineer; graduated as naval cadet in 1883, 
and resigned from the naval service to enter 
Stevens Institute. He was employed in the 
shops and draughting-room of the Ball En- 
gine Co., Erie, Pa., 1884-85 ; was instructor 
in mathematics, mechanical drawing, and 
surveying in the Boys' High School, Read- 
ing, Pa., 1885-87; instructor in drawing and 
building construction at the Central Manual 
Training School, Philadelphia, Pa., 1887-89, 
and instructor in drawing, 1889-91 ; Asso- 
ciate in the Mechanical Engineering De- 
partment of Electrical Engineering at Johns 
Hopkins University, Baltimore, Md., 1891- 
92, meanwhile pursuing advanced studies 
and work in mathematics, physics, and elec- 
tricity. He held the position of Professor 
of Mechanical Engineering, and Director 
of Mechanic Arts, at West Virginia Uni- 
versity, Morgantown, W. Va., 1893-99, ^"d 
was Dean of the College of Engineering and 
the Mechanic Arts at the same institution, 
1896-98. He volunteered for service in the 
Spanish-American War, and on May 12, 
1898, was appointed passed assistant engi- 
neer in the United States Navy, with the 
relative rank of lieutenant, attached to the 
naval repair ship " Vulcan," with Admiral 
Sampson's fleet in Cuban waters, being hon- 
orably discharged, October 18, 1898. He 
was Professor of Electrical Engineering at 
the University of Illinois, Champaign, 111., 
1899-1901 ; and since then he has been Di- 
rector of the Thomas S. Clarkson Memorial 
School of Technology, Potsdam, N. Y. 
During vacations and between intervals 



of teaching he was engaged in professional 
work as follows : in the draughting-room of 
the Baldwin Locomotive Works, Philadel- 
phia, Pa., 1886; visiting technical schools 
and manufacturing establishments in Eng- 
land and on the Continent, 1888; electrical 
testing work for the Cobb Vulcanite Co., 
Wilmington, Del., and in the subways of 
New York city, 1889; designing special 
wood-working machinery, under patents of 
Mr. Greenleaf Johnson, Jr., Baltimore, and 
designing special hydraulic and electric ma- 
chinery under patents of Dr. Louis Duncan, 




W. S. Aldrich 

Baltimore, 1890-91 ; making joint tests, with 
Mr. Herman S. Hering, of the Neversink 
Mountain Electric Road, Reading, Pa., 1891, 
and of the Druid Hill Avenue cable plant, 
Baltimore, Md., 1892 (see Transactions of 
the American Society of Mechanical Engi- 
neers, 1894, -XV, 705) ; in the shops and 
draughting-room of the William A. Harris 
Steam-Engihe Co., Providence, R. I., 1892 ; 
and in the draughting-room of the I. P. 
Morris Co., Philadelphia, Pa., 1892-93; de- 
signing new additions to the Mechanical 
Building of the West Virginia University, 
1893, and superintending the erection and 
equipment of the same, 1894; engaged in 
pi'ofessional work with Mr. Cecil B. Smith, 
under the firm name of Smith & Aldrich, 
Toronto, Canada, 1901. 

In 1889 Prof. Aldrich published a book of 



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291 



" Notes on Building Construction and Archi- 
tecture," and has since published, jointly 
with Prof. William H. Brown, Jr., of the 
University of Illinois, a " Manual of Instruc- 
tions, Forms, and Schedules for the Electri- 
cal Engineering Laboratory," and a " Junior 
Manual for the Electrical Engineering Lab- 
oratory." He has contributed many papers 
and discussions to various societies and 
journals as follows : 

"Spirally Welded Tubes." Am. Soc. N. E.\ 
I, 207, 1889. 

•■Piston Valve." Trans. A. S. M. E?, XIII, 
325, 1892. 

"Notes on Electro-Magnetic Machinery" (2 
papers): Jour. Frank. Inst.^, 1892. 

"On the Variable Action of Two-Coil Solen- 
oids." Ibid., 1892. 

"Designing Mechanical Movements." Am. 
Mach.\ XV, 1892. 

"Notes on Electro-Magnetic Transmission of 
Energy." Stevens Ind.'\ IX, 1892. 

"The Speed Regulation of Central-Station 
Engines." • Cassier's Magazine, II, 1892. 

' ' Epicj^clic Gearing for Electric Cars and Ele- 
vators." Electrical Engineering, XIII, 1892. 

"Test of the Neversink Mountain Electric 
Road." Electrical World, XIX and XX, 
1892. 

"Power Losses in the Transmission Machinery 
of Central Stations." Trans. A. S. M . E., XV, 
705, 1894. 

"Use of the Indicator for Contmuous Records 
in Dynamometric Testing." Ibid., XV, 112, 
1894. 

"Engineering Education and the State Uni- 
versity." Soc. Pro. Eng. Ed.''. II, 268, 1894. 

"Some Observations on Shop Training." 
Stevens Ind., XI, 1894. 

"Engineering Research in the Navy." Trans. 
Soc. N. A. M. E.\ III, 185, 1895. 

"The Work of the United States Naval Re- 
pair Ship 'Vulcan,' " (jointly with Gardiner C. 
Sims). Eng. Mag.^, XVII, 359, 569, 1895. 

"The Hale Engineering Experiment Station 
Bill" (abstract). Soc. Pro. Eng. Ed., IV, 187, 



1 " Joiirnal of the American Society of Naval Engi- 

2 " Transactions of the American Society of Alechani- 
cal Engineers." 

3 " Journal of the Franklin Institute." 
■* " American Machinist." 

^ " Stevens Indicator." 

•^"Society for the Promotion of Engineering Educa- 
tion." 

' " Transactions of the Society of Naval Architects 
and Marine Engineers." 

" " Engineering Magazine." 



"Engineering Experiment Stations." .4s50c. 
Am. Agr. Coll. and Exp. Sta. Sect. Mech. Arts\ 
Washington, D. C, 1896. 

"Speed in Modern Warships." A". Am. Rev.^, 
CLXII, 48, 1896. 

"The Engineer in Naval Warfare." Ibid., 
CLXII, 520, 1896. 

"Compressed Air in Railwa}' Work." Am. 
Elec.\ VIII, 1896. 

"On Rating Electric Power Plants Upon the 
Heat Unit Standard." Trans. A. S. M. E., 
XVIII, 721, 1897. 

"Development of Engineering Indttstries by 
Scientific Research." Am. Assoc. Adv. Sci.^, 
1897. 

"The Engineering Value of Magnetic Sur- 
veys," read before the Association of Engineers 
of Virginia. Jour. Assoc. Eng. Soc.', XVIII. 
May, 1897. 

"Notes on Rating Electric Power Plants 
Upon the Heat Unit Standard." Trans. A. S. 
M.E.,XIX, 93, 1898. 

"Central Power Plants on Board Ship versus 
Distribution of Power." Am. Soc. X. E., X, 95, 
1898. 

"Economic Manner of Working Steam in 
Electric Power Plants." Am. Elec, X, 262, 
1898. 

"The Variation of Belt Tensions with Power 
Transmitted." Trans. A. S. JM . E., XX, 136, 
1899. 

"Engineering Education and Expansion." 
Soc. Pro. Eng. Ed., VII, 71, 1899. 

"Some Engineering Experiences with Spanish 
Wrecks." Am. Assoc. Adv. Sci., 1899. 

"Electric Mining of Bituminous Coal." Ibid., 
1899. 

"Economy of Multiple-Expansion Engines." 
Ain. Elec, XI, 210, 259, 1899. 

"The Mechanical and Electrical Features of 
the Pan-American Exposition." Eng. Mag., 
XXI, 839, 1899. 

"Systems and Efficiency of Electric Trans- 
mission in Factories and Mills." Trans. A. S. 
M. E., XXI, 912, 1900. 

"Operating Work as a Feature of Electrical 
Laboratory Training." Soc. Pro. Eng. Ed., 
VIII, 359, 1900. 

"Requirements of Electricity in Manufactur- 
ing Work." Trans. A. S. M. E., XXII, 1003, 
1901. 

"Performance of an Artificial Fortv-Mile 



1 " Association of American Agricultural Colleges and 
E.xperiment Stations, Section of Mechanic Arts." 

2 " North American Review." 

3 " American Electrician." 

•1 "American Association for the Advancement of Sci- 



of the Association of Engineerir 



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Transmission Line" (with Mr. George W. Red- 
field). Trans. A. I. E. E.\ XVIII, 1901. 

"Research and Publication Among Engineer- 
ing Teachers." Soc. Pro. Eng. Ed., IX., 249. 

' ' Electrical Progress in the United States 
During the Year igoi." Western Electrician. 
Jan. 4, 1902. 

"Electric Transmission of Power for Navy 
Yards." Am. Soc. N. E., XIV, 448, 814, 1109, 
1902. 

In addition to the above, Prof. Aldricb 
has contributed a number of " discussion.s " 
to the several technical associations of which 
he has been a member, including the follow- 
ing: The American Society of Mechanical 
Engineers ; American Society of Naval En- 
gineers ; Society of Naval Architects and 
Marine Engineers ; American Institute of 
Electrical Engineers ; Society for the Pro- 
motion of Engineering Education; Franklin 
Institute of the State of Pennsylvania (Elec- 
trical Section) ; American Association for 
Advancement of Science (Fellow) ; National 
Geographic Society (Corresponding Mem- 
ber) ; Canadian Electrical Association; " Old 
Northwest" Genealogical Society. He is also 
an honorary member of the Alpha of Illinois 
Chapter of the Tau Beta Pi fraternity. 

Prof. Aldrich is the son of George Wells 
and Sarah Edith (Sleeper) Aldrich. His 
great-grandfather was Noah Aldrich, the 
fifth lineal descendant from George Aldrich 
who came to America in 1631. He married 
Mary Lavinia Purdy, daughter of Robert 
and Ellen (Compton) Purdy, of Philadel- 
phia, Pa., July I, 1886. They have five 
daughters, Alice Kennard, Ellen Purdy, 
Elizabeth Herrick, Rachel, and Mary Al- 
drich. 

Allaire, Alexander (M.E., '01), son of 
Francis and Ida May Allaire, was born in 
Brooklyn, N. Y., August 6, 1877, and grad- 
uated at the Stevens Preparatory School. 
He was employed in the draughting depart- 
ment of the American Engine Co., Bound 
Brook, N. J., 1901-02; in the estimating and 
order department of the Best Manufacturing 
Co., Pittsburg, Pa., 1902-03 ; and in the mas- 
ter-mechanic's department of the blast fur- 



1 " Transactions of the American Institute of Electri- 
cal Engineers." 



naces at the Edgar Thomson Steel Works, 
Wilkinsburg, Pa., since June 23, 1903. He 
is a member of the Beta Theta Pi fraternity. 

Allan, Percy (M.E., '95), was born in New 
York. December 5, 1873 ; the son of George 




Percy Allan 

S. and Eunice R. Allan, his grandfather on 
his mother's side being Prof. Charles Davies, 
author of Legendre's " Geometry." He 
served the Safety Car Heating & Lighting 
Co. as draughtsman and inspector, 1895-96, 
and in the latter year became assistant sup- 
erintendent of E. Schroeder's Lamp Works, 
Jersey City, N. J., for six months, then sup- 
erintendent, 1896-1903. He has recently be- 
come secretary of the Jenkins Manufacturing 
Co., of Bloomfield, N. J. He is the joint 
author, with G. Everett Bruen and Freder- 
ick K. Vreeland, of a thesis entitled " Ex- 
perimental Determination of the Influence 
of Back Pressure on the Economy of a Sur- 
face Condensing Engine with Independent 
Vacuum Pump," published in the Stevens 
Indicator, XIII, 136. He is a member of 
the American Society of Mechanical Engi- 
neers and of the Franklin Institute. 

Allen, Albert Mark (M.E., 'oi), was born 
in Akron, O., August 26, 1877. He was en- 
gaged as mechanical engineer with the Gen- 
eral Building & Construction Co., New 
York, until 1904 when he opened an office as 
consulting engineer at Cleveland, O. He is 



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a member of the American Society of 
Mechanical Engineers and of the Phi Sigma 
Kappa fraternity. 

Mr. Allen, who is the son of Miner J. and 
Frances D. Allen, married Christina Pellni- 
ger, April 6, 1900, and they have one child, 
Margaret Cynthia Allen. 

Allison, Philip (M.E., '98), was night en- 
gineer at the hat factory of E. A. Mallory 
& Sons, Danbury, Conn., having charge of 
a steam and electric plant consisting of a 
boiler plant of 300 horse-power, a 200 horse- 
power Corliss engine, a generator for light- 
ing, and pumps, etc., 1898; draughtsman 
with the Wellman-Seaver Engineering Co., 
Cleveland, O., 1898-1900; with the General 
Electric Co., Lynn, Mass., 1900-02; and 
electrical engineer for the De Laval Steam 
Turbine Co., Trenton, N. J., 1902 to date. 

Ames, Joseph Bushnell (M.E., '01), was 
born in Titusville, Pa., August 9, 1878; the 
son of Elias H. and Eleanor G. (Bushnell) 
Ames ; and grandson of Hon. Frederick W. 
Ames, member of the House of Representa- 
tives. He has been with the Lidgerwood 
Manufacturing Co., New York, with E. P. 
Button & Co., New York, and is now in the 




gas department of the Public Service Cor- 
poration at Jersey City, N. J. He is a mem- 
ber of the Beta Theta Pi and Tau Beta Pi 



fraternities, the Strollers Club of New York, 
and of the Washington Association of New 
Jersey. 

Anderson, Harold W. (M.E., '97), was 
with the General Licandescent Arc Light 
Co., of New York, as an inspector and out- 
side man for the lamps, motors, etc., installed 
by the company, in 1897. Later (1897-98) 
he became draughtsman and assistant shop 
superintendent for Henry W. Bulkley, manu- 
facturer of injector-condensers and pumps, 
Orange, N. J., where he was engaged in both 
designing and outside construction. While 
thus occupied, having been one of the origi- 
nal members of the 3d Division, Battalion of 
East, Naval Reserves of New Jersey, he was 
sent to the League Island Navy Yard at 
Philadelphia with a detachment largely com- 
posed of Stevens men. There he superin- 
tended the finishing repairs to the machinery 
of the monitor " Montauk," being appointed 
her chief engineer, to go to the Maine coast. 
Later on, the monitor was assigned to the 
Western Battalion, and, passing the required 
examination, he was given a commission as 
assistant engineer in the United States Navy. 
Resigning his position with Mr. Bulkley in 
May, 1898, he spent the following four and 
a half months in the government service, be- 
ing assigned to the U.S.S. " Badger," which 
vessel, with the exception of three officers, 
was completely manned and officered by the 
New Jersey Naval Reserves. This ship, an 
auxiliary cruiser, was, during the Spanish 
war, in northern waters for a short period 
and then off Havana, Nuevitas, and other 
Cuban ports, having some minor engage- 
ments and making several' captures. Being 
honorably discharged in October, 1898, he 
became a draughtsman for the Electric Vehi- 
cle Co., of New York, being occupied in de- 
signing automobiles and charging-stations, 
1898-99. He then joined the San Carlos 
Copper Co., San Jose, Mexico, as their erect- 
ing engineer, 1899-1900, and installed a com- 
plete equipment at their largest mine, consist- 
ing of boilers, hoisting and pumping engines, 
air-compressors, etc., and also had charge of 
various engineering operations at the other 
mines and the furnaces. He was designing 
and erecting engineer to the Reno Liclined 
Elevator Co., New York, having charge of 
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York, Philadelphia, and Coney Island, 1900- 
01 ; and in the latter year became draughts- 
man, looking after repair work, testing, etc., 
at the Hoboken, and Jersey City shops of the 
Pennsylvania Railroad Co. As mechanical 
engineer to the Lanyon Zinc Co., lola, Kan., 
manufacturers of spelter, 1901-02, he had 
charge of everything in the engineering line 
at the company's three works, — the machin- 
ery, all construction and repair, the furnaces, 
roasting-kilns, buildings, etc., improvements 
and mechanical devices, the refining-furnace, 
labor-saving schemes, etc. These works, sit- 
uated in the centre of the natural-gas belt, 
and reputed to be the largest in the United 
States, have a combined output of 100 tons 
and more of spelter per day, and employ up- 
ward of 900 men. A rolling-mill recently 
completed has a capacity of 40 tons of sheet 
zinc per day, and employs about 40 men, 
with arrangements for enlarging. He is 
now mechanical engineer to the San Carlos 
Copper Co., Linares, N. L., Mexico. 

Anderson, Larz Worthington (M.E., '88), 
was born in Cincinnati, O., December 3, 
1866. He was employed by the Addyston 
Pipe & Steel Co., Addyston, O., 1888-93; 
was treasurer of the J. A. Fay & Eagan 




L. W. Anderson 



has been secretary and treasurer of the Cin- 
cinnati Shaper Co. from 1901 to date. He is 
a member of the Queen City Club, Country 
Club, The Pillars, "and the Delta Tau Delta 
fraternity. 

Mr. Anderson is the son of William 
Pope and Julia (Worthington) Anderson, is 
American on both sides for six generations, 
and great-grandson of Richard Clough An- 
derson, who served as aide-de-camp on La- 
fayette's staff. He was married, February 
12, 1895, to Grace Ferguson, and they have 
two boys, Larz Ferguson and Alexander 
Anderson. 

Anderson, Richard T. (M.E., '02), is with 
the George A. Fuller Construction Co., New 
York. 

Anderson, Robert Marshall (M.E., '87), 
was born in Pickaway County, O., February 




Co., Cincinnati, O., 1893-98 
firm of Silk, Anderson, & 
machine tools, at Cincinnati 



; member of the 
Co., makers of 
1898-1901 ; and 



R. M. Anderson 

[3, 1862. He is the son of William Marshall 
and Ellen C. Anderson, and a member of a 
Virginia family dating back to 1650, his an- 
cestors having come from border counties 
of England and Scotland. His grandfather. 
Col. Richard Clough Anderson, of Revolu- 
tionary services, moved to Kentucky as sur- 
veyor-general of Virginia military lands in 
1795. His grandmother was a cousin of 
Chief Justice John Marshall and of General 
George Rogers Clark. He received his early 
education in the public schools of Circleville. 



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O., and took the degree of Bachelor of Sci- 
ence at the Universit}'- of Notre Dame, South 
Bend, Ind., in 1883. He was with the 
Springer Torsion Balance Co., Jersey City, 
N. J-, 1887-89 ; held positions at the Stevens 
Institute, in the Department of Tests, 1889- 
91; as Instructor in the Department of Ex- 
perimental Mechanics, 1891-93; and as As- 
sistant Professor of Applied Mathematics, 
1893-99; was in the firm of Anderson & 
Murphy, consulting and contracting engi- 
neers, 1899-1900; was treasurer of the An- 
derson-Murphy Co., general contractors, 
1900-01 ; was vice-president and secretary of 
the Bacon Air Lift Co., hydraulic engineers 
and contractors, New York, 1901-04; and at 
the present time is secretary and treasurer 
of the Hudson Engineering & Contracting 
Co., general contractors and engineers, mak- 
ing a specialty of hydraulic work. He pub- 
lished an article on " A Simple Geometrical 
Proof for the Zeuner Valve Diagram " in 
the Stcz'cits Indicator^ X. He is a mem- 
ber of the American Society of Mechanical 
Engineers, of the Delta Tau Delta fraternity, 
and of the Catholic Club. 

Anderson, St. George M. (M.E., '94), was 
assistant chemist in the State Agricultural 
Department of Virginia, 1894-95 ; assistant 
superintendent of the horseshoe factory at 
the Tredegar Iron Works, Richmond, Va., 
1895-1901 ; and has been superintendent of 
the rolling-mills with the same company from 
1901 to date. His graduating thesis, pre- 
pared jointly with E. J. Burke, on a " Test of 
a 240-horse-power Babcock & Wilcox Boiler 
with Three Different Coals, for the Deter- 
mination of Economy," was published in the 
Stevens Indicator, XII. 

Angell, Frederic Jackson (M.E., '94), was 
born in Brooklyn, N. Y., September 9, 1870; 
the son of Frederic Allan and Abby Wheaton 
(Jackson) Angell, and is descended from old 
Rhode Island families on both father's and 
mother's sides. Thomas Angell came to the 
United States from England in 1630 with 
Roger Williams, and, with him, was one of 
the original founders of Providence, R. I. 
F. J. Angell prepared for college at the 
high school, Montclair, N. J. Three years' 
business experience (office work) in New 
York intervened between leaving school and 



entering Stevens Institute. He was a special 
apprentice in the locomotive shops of the 
Pennsylvania Railroad, Altoona, Pa., 1894- 
96; draughtsman with the Solvay Process 
Co., Syracuse, N. Y., 1896-97; and then en- 
tered the London office of Humphreys & 
Glasgow, gas engineers, New York and Lon- 
don, where he has remained to date. In 
this latter position he has been engaged in 
the construction and operation of carburetted 
water-gas plants, among which might be 
mentioned those at Bournemouth, England, 
capacity of 1,000,000 cubic feet per day; 
Tunbridge Wells, 1,000,000 cubic feet; Ful- 
ham, London, 1,750,000 cubic feet; and Cop- 
enhagen, Denmark, 2,500,000 cubic feet. His 
work, which at first was purely construction- 
al and operative, developed largely into ex- 
pert work in connection with problems of 
manufacture and distribution arising in gas- 
works where the Humphreys & Glasgow 
plants are installed. For the past two years 
most of his time has been devoted to negotia- 
tions leading to new business. 

Annett, Edward Burdett (M.E., '02), son 
of Charles E. and Mary E. (Overbagh) An- 
nett, was born in Bayonne, N. J., September 
28, 1881. He was draughtsman and assistant 
to the engineer in charge of erection of a 
new plant for the Rock Plaster Co., of New 
York and New Jersey, 1902-03 ; draughts- 
man for the New York Mutual Gas Light 
Co., 1903-04 ; and since January of the latter 
year has been with the Consolidated Gas Co., 
of New York. 

Antz, Oscar (M.E., '78), was born in New- 
ark, N. J., September 16, 1859. After leav- 
ing the Institute, he entered the service of 
the Pennsylvania Railroad as machinist 
apprentice at the Meadows shops. He was 
advanced, through successive stages of 
draughtsman and general foreman at other 
shops of the division, to the position of assist- 
ant master mechanic of the Meadows shops, 
during twelve years of service. In 1890 he 
accepted the position of master mechanic of 
the Central of Georgia Railway at Savannah, 
Ga., where he remained for a year and a 
half, and then took a position, in 1893, with 
the Lake Shore & Michigan Southern Rail- 
way Co., as chief draughtsman of the car 
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to general foreman of car shops at two dif- 
ferent points, and is now general foreman of 




in charge of the designing and construction 
for W. Noble Dickerson, Jr., & Co., manu- 
facturers of electric power machinery, New 
York, 1900-01 ; assistant master mechanic at 
the Passaic Print Works, 1901-02, during 
which period he designed and drew plans for 
a one-story bleach-house 295 X 70 feet, a 
two-story " white room " 175 X 50 feet, and 
a six-story storehouse 250 X 120 feet. He 
also assisted in installing a gravity water- 
filter plant of 4,000,000 gallons daily capac- 
ity, and the engines, generators, and motors 
for a 750-kilowatt three-phase electric plant. 
In July, 1902, he was advanced to the posi- 
tion of master mechanic, having charge of 
general maintenance and repair of machin- 
ery and buildings of a plant having 3,000 
boiler horse-power and three and a half acres 
of floor space devoted to the manufacture of 
printed cotton goods. He is now engaged 
in the installation of an electric plant which 



the locomotive shops at Elkhart, Ind. While 
engaged in railroad work at some of the 
above places he gave instruction in mechani- 
cal drawing. 

He contributed a scries of articles on the 
" Construction and Maintenance of Railway 
Car Equipment " to the American Engineer, 
Car Builder, and Railroad Journal, which 
were published during 1896 and 1897, and 
has also contributed other articles to this and 
other technical journals. The American En- 
gineer and Railroad Journal, in its issue of 
January, 1899, speaks of him as an authority 
on car subjects. He is a member of the 
American Railway Master Mechanics' Asso- 
ciation. 

Mr. Antz is the son of Theobald and 
Emma Antz. He married Jennie Lavinia 
Menagh, December 26, 1900, and they have 
one child, Joseph Lyndon Antz. 




H. W. Appleton 



will eventually entirely displace the steam- 
engines formerly used. 



Appleton, Henry William (M.E., '00), was 
born in Brooklyn, N. Y., March 18, 1877; 
the son of Henry W. and Anna Elizabeth 
(Black) Appleton. His father was born in 
London, England, of English parentage, and 
his mother was born in New York of Scotch 
and Irish ancestry. He was draughtsman 
and assistant to the master mechanic of the 
Passaic Print Works, Passaic, N. J., 1900; 



Armitage, Frederick William (M.E., '01), 
was born in East Orange, N. J., July 10, 
1877. He is employed in the manufacturing 
department in charge of the factory of 
Hitchings & Co., New York. He is a mem- 
ber of the Theta Xi fraternity, the Mont- 
clair, the Montclair Golf, and the Montclair 
Camera clubs. 

Mr. Armitage is the son of Charles and 



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Harriet Armitage. He married Grace John- 
son, March 10, 1903. 

Armour, George (M.E., '89), is the Spo- 
kane (Wash.) district manager of the 
Houser & Haines Manufacturing Co., of 
Walla Walla, Wash. 

Arrison, Pearson (M.E., '95), has been 
with the Thompson Meter Co., Brooklyn, 
N. Y., from 1895 to date. 

Arroyo, Agustin Cayetano (M.E., '81), 
was born at Molino de Hercules, Queretaro, 
Mexico, May 4, 1851. On his graduation 




A. C. Arroyo 

he became connected with the La Reforma 
Cotton Mill, Salvatierra ; the Molino de 
Soria Cotton and Woolen Mill, Soria; the 
Molino del Carmen Bleaching Mill, Celaya, 
all owned by Seiior Don Eusebio Gonzalez, 
and held his positions until his death. 

Mr. Arroyo -was the son of Juana D. and 
Cayetano Arroyo. He married Mary Gilles- 
pie, December 19, 1881, at Paterson, N. J., 
and two children, Agustin Fernando and Fe- 
lipe Fernando Arroyo, were born to them. 
Mr. Arroyo died October 29, 1892. 

Aspinwall, John (M.E., '81), was born in 
Paris, France, October 15, 1858. He left 
the Stevens Institute during his senior year. 
In 1901 the degree of Mechanical Engineer 



was conferred upon him by the Institute in 
consideration of his record as student and of 
his professional work. He was Lecturer in 
Chemistry at St. Stephen's College, Annan- 
dale, N. Y., from 1882 to 1894, and received 
from that institution the degree of Master of 
Arts, honoris causa, in 1889. In March, 1900, 
he became general manager of the New York 
Leather & Paint Co., which was succeeded 
in 1902 by the Fabrikoid Co., of which, in 
1903, he became president. While in Florida 
in 1890 he took up the culture of various 
delicate plants, which up to that time had 
been unsuccessful. One of these plants was 
the cucumber, and finding that failure to 
raise it was due to shock caused by the rapid 
cooling of the surface of the ground through 
radiation, he found, after various methods 
had been tried, that a layer of cheese-cloth 
above the plant would afford the necessary 
protection. A large house 100 feet square 
was built with walls 8 feet high, and the 
whole structure covered with cheese-cloth. 
Irrigation was obtained through artesian 
wells supplying water at a pressure of some 
15 pounds to the square inch. The plants 
were raised upon upright trellises, and fer- 
tilization was had through the use of a cam- 
el's-hair pencil. The cucumber plants were 
raised in benches about two and a half feet 
above the ground, and earth placed in these 
benches to a depth of about four inches. The 
aphides (green plant-lice) were kept under 
control by means of damp tobacco stems 
which were laid above the ground on the 
benches. The result of this method of cul- 
ture was the raising of an enormous quantity 
of magnificent cucumbers of the white spine 
variety, varying in length from six to nine 
inches, and hundreds of boxes of this fruit 
were shipped to the Northern markets. 

The above data is of general interest chief- 
ly on account of the fact that it was the 
first instance of the use of a thin material 
like cheese-cloth over an extended area at a 
height sufficient to walk under; and, also, 
that this experiment has revolutionized the 
raising of leaf tobacco for wrappers in the 
State of Connecticut and the New England 
States, where now hundreds of acres are 
covered with cheese-cloth nine feet above 
the ground, resulting in the raising of a leaf 
which is considered to be equal to the Su- 
matra wrapper, and vastly increasing the 



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productiveness of the tobacco plant and the 
money obtained for the crop. 

During the winter of 1898, Mr. Aspinvvall 
had occasion to make some photomicrographs 
of cross sections of a flexible backing coated 
with a flexible layer of pyroxylin, and in his 
attempts to demonstrate the penetration of 
the pyroxylin into the backing, he discovered 
the curious fact that when a layer of flexible 
pyroxylin is placed under pressure with 
heat, a resist is 'obtained, which, with a prop- 




JOHN ASPINWALL 

er condition of dye bath, makes possible the 
dyeing of the raised portion of an embossed 
pyroxylin surface only. y\fter a winter's 
work he discovered the law which governs 
the action of the dye upon pyroxylin com- 
pounds under these conditions. He also dis- 
covered a method by which the opposite 
result could be obtained with the same py- 
roxylin compound embossed in the same 
manner, by which the depressed portion be- 
comes dyed, while the upper portion remains 
undyed ; and also discovered a method by 
which a double dyeing is obtained; that is, by 
the immersion of an embossed pyroxylin 
compound in a single bath, the raised portion 
will be dyed one color, while the depressed 
portion will be dyed another. It was unfor- 
tunate that the fugitive character of the dyes 
which will produce this result made this 
process of little value from a commercial 
point of view. 



As a boy of sixteen (1874) he designed 
and built the first really practical small steam 
launch in America, which he named the 
" Skedaddle." She was 17 feet long, had a 
single high-pressure cylinder, and was pro- 
pelled by a screw which worked entirely be- 
low the keel, so as to obtain solid water, — a 
method now quite general. She was used on 
the Hudson River for two years. 

Mr. Aspinwall is a member of the New 
York Yacht Club ; the Calumet Club, of New 
York; the Camera Club, of which he was 
president in 1901 ; the New York Microscop- 
ical Society, of which he was president in 
1899-1900, and of the "Journal" of which 
he is now editor; the American Microscop- 
ical Society, of which he was vice-president 
in 1901 ; the Arkwright Club, of New York, 
and of the Theta Xi fraternity. 

Mr. Aspinwall is the son of John Lloyd 
and Jane Moore (Breck) Aspinwall. His 
father was a member of the old commission 
house of Howland & Aspinwall, New York. 

He was married, September 9, 1885, to 
Juliet Wilson, and they have one child, Bes- 
sie Reed Aspinwall. 

Atkins, Harold Bedford (M.E., '92), was 
born in Brooklyn, N. Y., February 24, 1872; 
the son of Thomas Bedford and Elizabeth J. 
(Dunham) Atkins, is of English descent on 
the paternal, and of Knickerbocker and Ply- 
mouth Colonial on the maternal side. He 
was assistant electrician in the experimental 
department of the American Telephone 
& Telegraph Co., 1892-93, being engaged 
chiefly in an effort to improve the oper- 
ation of extreme long-distance apparatus. 
He then became connected with the Pintsch 
Compressing Co., 1893-95, the first six 
months as a draughtsman ; from Septem- 
ber, 1893, to the end of the year, engaged 
in building gas-works in Jacksonville, Fla. ; 
and during 1894 and until October, 1895, as 
superintendent of gas-works and resident en- 
gineer in Boston, Mass. As a " student " 
with the General Electric Co., at Schenecta- 
dy, N. Y., 1895-96, he engaged in personal 
experimental work, and in the latter year 
he also served as an instructor in Experi- 
mental Mechanics during the Supplementary 
Term at Stevens Institute. He was in the 
electrical repair shops of the firm of A. K. 
Warren & Co., 1896-98, during which time 



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he was engaged in inspecting, testing, and 
estimating repairs, and was also superin- 
tendent of shops and engineer in charge of 
designing-work. In 1898 he was engaged in 
designing details connected with the 96th 
Street Power station of the Metropolitan 
Street Railway Co., and in 1898-99 designed 
automobiles for the Electrical Vehicle Co. 
He obtained a patent for a flexible running- 
gear frame for vehicles, which frame is now 
being used on some of the Columbia automo- 
biles. With the United States Motor Vehicle 
Co., 1899-1900, he also engaged in designing 
automobiles. Draughtsman with H. de B. 
Parsons (Stevens, '84), 1900 to date; he is 
now associated with Mr. Parsons, who is 
practising as consulting engineer, handling 
physical valuations of industrial properties, 
making investigations and reports for inves- 
tors and manufacturers; also reporting on 
steam economy and preparing plans and 
specifications for steam and water power 
developments, and heating and ventilating. 
He is a member of the American Society 
of Civil Engineers and of the American In- 
stitute of Electrical Engineers. He was at 
one time a member of the Calumet Club, 
New York. 

Atristain, Alberto (M.E., '90), has been en- 
gaged with the Mexican Central Railroad 
at Mexico City, Mex., 1893 to date. 

Atwater, Christopher Greene (M.E., '91), 
was born in Millville, N. J., December 23, 
i86g. He received his early education under 
German tutors and at Friends' School at 
Providence, R. I., and prepared for Stevens 
Institute at Stevens High School. He was a 
student in the design and construction of 
glass-melting furnaces in the technical bu- 
reau of Robert Dralle, Berlin, Germany, 
1891-92; and was constructing engineer for 
R. M. Atwater & Sons, glass engineers, Al- 
ton, 111., and Pittsburg, Pa., 1892-93. He 
then engaged with the Semet-Solvay Co., 
Syracuse, N. Y., American agents for the 
Semet-Solvay by-product coke-oven, 1893- 
99. He was constructing engineer for this 
firm on plants of 50 ovens at Dunbar, Pa., 
25 ovens at Sharon, Pa., and 10 ovens at Hal- 
ifax, N. S. He was also engaged in experi- 
mental work for the company at the Syracuse 
plant, and took charge of a garbage-reduc- 



tion plant at Dorchester, Mass. As engineer 
for the National Coal Tar Co., 1900-01, he 
designed and erected tar distillation and stor- 
age plants at Everett, Mass., and also took 
charge of improvements at the company's 
Brooklyn plant. He was a member of the 
editorial staff of the Engineering Record, 
New York, in 1901 ; in the draughting-room, 
and assistant to Dr. F. Schniewind, consult- 
ing chemist, with the United Coke & Gas 
Co., New York, 1901-03 ; superintendent of 
the coke-oven department of the Dominion 
Iron & Steel Co., Sydney, C. B., 1903-04, 
when he resigned to take a similar position 
with the Maryland Steel Co. at Sparrows 
Point, Md. He is now mechanical engineer 
for the United Coke & Gas Co., New York 
city. 

He took out a patent in 1900 on an im- 
provement in horizontal-flue coke-ovens, the 
walls being inclined slightly from the per- 
pendicular to increase the area of the lower 
flues and decrease the width of the cokins- 




C. G. .Atwater 

chamber at bottom. He presented papers on 
by-product coke-ovens before the American 
Association for the Advancement of Science, 
the American Chemical Society, and the 
American Institute of Mining Engineers, 
and is the author of technical descriptions 
of steam-power plants, cement-mills, gar- 
bage-reduction plants, and similar papers in 
the Engineering Record for 1902. He also 
assisted Dr. F. Schniewind in the prepara- 



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tion of an article on by-product coke-ovens 
in Mineral Industry, X. His thesis, " Test 
of a Pulsometer," formed part of a paper 
presented to the American Society of Me- 
chanical Engineers by the late Prof. De 
Volson Wood, and was published in its 
Transactions, XIII, and in Kent's Pocket- 
Book, p. 612. 

He Avas a junior member, 1892-1901, and 
member since 1901, of the American Society 
of Mechanical ' Engineers ; associate mem- 
ber of the American Gas Light Association 
since 1899 • ^""^ member of the American In- 
stitute of Mining Engineers since 1903. 

Mr. Atwater is the son of Richard Meade 
and Abby Sophia (Greene) Atwater. His 
maternal grandfather was a graduate of the 
United States Military Academy ; his pater- 
nal grandfather was a civil engineer; and 
his father was a chemist and commercial 
engineer. He married Jane Power Bunnell, 
May 5, 1903. 

Axford, William Baldwin (M.E., 93), 
was bom in Jersey City, N. J., December 
28, 1871 ; son of William H. and Margaret 
A. Axford, is a direct descendant of John 
Hart, a signer of the Declaration of Inde- 
pendence; also of Major John Polhemus 
and Capt. John Axford, of the Revolution- 
ary Army; also of John Axford, one of the 
first three settlers of northern New Jersey, at 
Oxford Furnace, N. J. He was a member 
of the firm of W. H. Axford & Son, con- 
tractors, 1893-94, but on the retirement of 
W. H. Axford in the latter year became 
engineer with the Cockburn-Barrow Co., 
Jersey City. A student of law, 1895-97, he 
received the degree of Bachelor of Laws 
from New York University in the latter 
year, and practised law in Jersey City, 1897- 
99. He was also a member of the firm of 
Seguine & Axford, speculators in real es- 
tate, bonds, mining properties, patents, etc., 
in Jersey City, 1895-99, and in the latter 
year he organized the Seguine-Axford Ve- 
neer Co., manufacturers of railroad and de- 
pot seatings and settees, and also of ceiling 
and panel work, with factory and cutting- 
mills at Jersey City. He reorganized this 
company in 1900 as the American Veneer 
Co., for the manufacture of veneer and cab- 
inet work, automobile bodies and mud- 
guards, car-ceilings and built-up work of all 



kinds, Mr. Seguine having retired, and Mr. 
Axford taking entire control as president 
and general manager, 1900-02. In 1902 he 
became associated with Senator V. W. Mac- 
farlane, of Greenville, Me., as secretary and 
general manager of the Moosehead Case & 
Power Co., and secretary of the Greenville 
Manufacturing & Veneer Co., both of Green- 
ville, Me. 

He is a member of the Phi Gamma Delta 
and Phi Delta Phi fraternities of the New 
York University; of the Jersey City and 
Palma clubs, Jersey City; and of the Theta 
Nu Epsilon fraternity of Stevens Institute. 

Ayres, Brown (B.S., '78, Ph.D., '88), was 

born in Memphis, Tenn., May 25, 1856. He 
attended the Washington and Lee Univer- 




ROWN Ayres 



sity, Virginia, 1871-74, and entered Stevens 
in 1874, where he took the regular course 
in Mechanical .Engineering until the Senior 
year, when he specialized somewhat in phys- 
ics and chemistry, and graduated in the 
Class of '78 with the degree of Bachelor of 
Science. He entered Johns Hopkins Uni- 
versity, at Baltimore, in 1878, taking the 
postgraduate courses in physics and mathe- 
matics, and in 1879 was appointed Fellow in 
Physics in that University. While holding 
this fellowship he was elected to the pro- 
fessorship of Physics in the University of 
Louisiana (now Tulane University of Louis- 
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gree of Doctor of Philosophy from Stevens 
111 1888. In 1894 he was appointed Dean of 
the newly created College of Technology of 
Tulane University of Louisiana, to the de- 
velopment of which as a thoroughly modern 
engineering school he gave most of his time 
for six years. In 1900 he was appointed 
Vice-Chairman of the Faculty of Tulane 
University, and in 1901 Dean of the Aca- 
demic Colleges (Colleges of Arts and 
Sciences, and of Technology). He was Pro- 
fessor of Physics and Electrical Engineer- 
ing from 1886 to 1900. Since the latter date 
he has been Professor of Physics and As- 
tronomy. 

He has published a number of papers on 
scientific and educational subjects, and 
served as a member of the Electrical Jury at 
the World's Columbian Exposition, Chicago, 
1893; of the Electrical Jury at the Atlanta 
Exposition, 1895, ^i'""^' ol the Electrical and 
Mechanical Jury at the Nashville Exposi- 
tion, 1897. He organized the educational 
exhibit of Louisiana at the Louisiana Pur- 
chase Exposition at St. Louis. He is a 
Fellow of the American Association for the 
Advancement of Science ; member of the 
American Listitute of Electrical Engi- 
neers ; the American Physical Society ; the 
Association for the Promotion of Engineer- 
ing Education ; the New Orleans Academy 
of Science ; the New Orleans Electrical So- 
ciety, etc. ; of the Delta Psi fraternity ; 
and of the Louisiana Naturalists' Society. 
Especially fond of music, which he culti- 
vates somewhat more than is usual with 
American men who lead busy lives, he is 
president of the New Orleans Choral Sym- 
phony Society, the philharmonic organiza- 
tion of New Orleans. 

The son of Samuel Warren and Elizabeth 
(Cook) Ayres, he is of Scotch-Irish stock 
on his father's side and of Scotch and 
French-Huguenot on his mother's side, his 
American ancestry being traceable for 250 
years. He married Katie Allen Anderson 
of Lexington, Va., July 5, 1881, and they 
have eight children, Mattie Garland, Sam- 
uel Warren, John Anderson, Elizabeth Cook, 
Mary Douglas, Katherine Stuart, Ruth, and 
Morgan Brown Ayres. 

Azevedo, Luiz Marinho de (M.E., '99), 
was born in Casa-Branca, Sao Paulo, Brazil, 



November 10, 1876. He has been mechani- 
cal and electrical engineer at Sao Paulo, 
Brazil, 1899 to date. He was assistant su- 
perintendent, during construction, of the 24,- 
ooo-volt, 20-mile transmission line of the 




L. M. DE AZKVETIO 

Sao Paulo Tramway Light & Power Co., 
Ltd., and assistant electrical engineer for 
the same company during two years. Leav- 
ing this position, he acquired a concession 
for an electric light and power plant for the 
city of Itu, province of Sao Paulo. This 
electric company is now organized under the 
name of Companhia Ituana Forqa e Luz, and 
all the plans for the hydraulic development 
of 1,500 horse-power and the present utili- 
zation of 250 kilowatts were drawn by Mr. 
Azevedo, who is chief constructing, hydraul- 
ic, and electrical engineer for the company. 
He has also a contract with the municipal 
council of Itu for the construction of sewer- 
age works for the city, the plans and speci- 
fications having been furnished by him after 
a competition. He is a member of the Theta 
Xi fraternity. 

Mr. Azevedo is the son of Dr. Fernando 
Marinho and Anna Luiza Sampaio (Mar- 
inho) de Azevedo. His paternal grand- 
father was a physician who had three sons, 
all physicians, one of whom was an attend- 
ant of Dom Pedro II, of Brazil. His mater- 
nal great-grandfather was one of the most 
notable lawyers of his time, and his mater- 



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nal grandfather was an artist. Mr. Azevedo 
married Sylvia de Almeida Sampaio, Sep- 
tember 4, 1902. They have one child, Maria 
Clarice de Azevedo. 

Bachmann, Valentine (M.E., '75), was 
born in Germany, June 5, 1848. Up to 1883 
he was engaged in mill-construction, and in 
the latter year established the " Avenue 
Mills," at Indianapolis, Ind., for the manu- 
facture of high grades of flour, which he has 
since conducted. He has taken out a patent 
on a mechanical stoker. 



& Lange Dry Dock Co. 
1902-03. He has been 



Hoboken, N. J., 
contracting and 




Valentine Bachmann 

Mr. Bachmann married Lina von Konigs- 
low, and they have four children. 

Badenhausen, John Phillips (M.E., 96), 
was machinist apprentice at the Consoli- 
dated Iron Works, Hoboken, N. J., 1896; 
in the repair department of the shops of P. 
Sanford Ross, contractor for docks, bridges, 
dredging, harbor improvements, etc., Clifton, 
Staten Island, 1898; assistant engineer on 
the American Line steamship " St. Louis," 
1898-99 ; student in a postgraduate course in 
marine engineering and ship-building, Cor- 
nell University, receiving the degree of 
Master Mechanical Engineer, 1900; draughts- 
man with the New York Shipbuilding Co., 
Camden, N. J., 1900 ; assistant superintend- 
ing engineer in the Atlas Line, of New York, 
and superintendent of shops of the Tietjen 




J. P. Badenhausen 

constructing engineer from 1903 to date. 
Mr. Badenhausen is the author of an article 
on " Tail Shafting for Marine Engines," 
which appeared in Marine Engineering for 
luly, 1902; one on "A Patent Stern Tube," 
Ibid., October, 1902; and of another on 
" Replacing a Slide Valve with a Piston 
Valve," Ibid., July, 1903. 

Baird, William Raimond (M.E., '78), was 
born in Philadelpliia, Pa., April 24, 1858. 
After graduation from the Institute he de- 
cided to follow the legal profession, and with 
this end in view attended Columbia College 
Law School, graduating- with the degree of 
Bachelor of Laws, ciuii laitde, in 1882. He 
has been a counsellor-at-law for many years, 
with an office in New York, and has made 
a specialty of .patent and corporation law, 
acting as expert in patent cases, and as coun- 
sel for many ' corporations. He was presi- 
dent of the New York Correspondence 
School of Law from 1892 to 1897. He is the 
author of: 

"American College Fraternities," Philadel- 
phia, 1879, 1880; New York, 1886, 1890, 1898. 

"A Gviide to the Principles of the Law," (with 
F. S. Babcock). New York, 1883, 1885, 1886, 
1889. 

"The Principles of American Law." Two 
volumes. New York, 1892, 1895, 1898, 1901, 



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"The Study of Languages." New York, 
1893. 

"Fraternity Studies." 1894. 

He was general .secretary of the legal fra- 
ternity, Phi Delta Phi, 1882-93; has been 
editor of the Beta Theta Pi since 1893 ; and 
is a member of La Societe Mineralogique de 
France ; the American Chemical Society ; 
and of the Society of Chemical Lidustry. 

The son of William J. and Mary Emma 
(Cornish) Baird, he is of Scotch and Fran- 
co-German descent on his father's side and 
Welsh and English Quaker on his mother's. 




W. R. Baird 

He married Jennie G. Mansfield, September 
29, 1886. They have one child, Raimond 
Duy Baird. 

Baker, E. S. (M.E., '00), has been with 
the West \'irginia Paper Co., of Piedmont, 
W. Va., from 1900 to date. 



Baldasano, Arthur, Jr. (M.E., '97), was in 
the engineering department of the Trenton 
Lon Works, Trenton, N. J., 1897-98 ; in the 
works of Vickers Sons & Maxims, London, 
England, 1898-1903 ; and from 1903 to 
date has been manager of the Rio Negro 
Mines, Ltd., Riello, Province of Leon, 
Spain. 

Baldwin, Oscar H. (M.E., '85), was em- 
ployed in the maintenance of way and mo- 
tive power departments of the Pennsylvania 
Railroad Co., 1885-86; in the Westinghouse 
Electric & Manufacturing Co., 1886-89, O" 
general construction work and operation of 
electric lighting and power plants; as en- 
gineer with the Westinghouse Electric Co., 
Ltd., and as superintendent of the Sardinia 
Street station of the Metropolitan Electric 
Supply Co., 1889-92, serving in this capacity 
in drawing up the plans, etc., for the boil- 
ers, engines, and piping work for the ex- 
tension of the station, superintending its 
erection, and operating the entire plant for 
one year; and as chief engineer with the 
Westinghouse Electric Co., Ltd., London, 
1892-94. He was managing director of the 
same company, 1894-1900, and on the forma- 
tion of the British Westinghouse Electric & 
Manufacturing Co., Ltd., he was given the 
additional appointment of assistant manager 
of that company, and, no manager having 
been officially appointed, was acting mana- 
ger. From 1890 to 1900 he had general 
charge of all the engineering work of both 
the Westinghouse Electric Co., Ltd., and the 
British Westinghouse Electric & Manufac- 
turing Co., Ltd. He was managing director 
of J. G. White & Co., Ltd., engineers and 
contractors, London, England, 1900-02; and 
from 1903 to date has been with the British 
Westinghouse Electric & Manufacturing 
Co., Ltd., London. 



Baker, I. Fraley (M.E., '98), has been 
with the Sprague Electric Co., Watsessing, 
\. J., from 1898 to date. With Harvey 
Brett, M.E., he prepared a thesis on " Ex- 
perimental Investigation of the Reliabihty 
of Pitot Tubes for Determining the Velocity 
of Flow of Water in Pipes," which was pub- 
lished in full in the Stevens Institute Indica- 
tor, October, 1898. He is a member of the 
Tau Beta Pi fraternity. 



Ball, Frederick Ossian (M.E., '97), was 
born at Grand Island, Erie County, N. Y., 
February 10, 1872. He has been assistant 
to the general manager of the American 
Engine Co., Bound Brook, N. J., from 1897 
to date. Has taken out three patents on a 
duplex compound engine, and several pat- 
ents on minor parts of steam-engines. He 
is a junior member of the American Society 
of Mechanical Engineers, before whom, in 



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May, 1901, he read a paper on " Draughting 
Room and Shop Systems." He is also a 
member of the Park Club, of Plainfield, 
N. J., and of the Beta Theta Pi fraternity. 
With his brother, B. C. Ball, '95, he sailed in 
the " Ethelwynne " when she defeated the 
EngHsh yacht " Spruce IV " in the interna- 
tional races for the Seawanhaka Corinthian 
Challenge Cup for small yachts. 

The son of Franklin Harvey and Kate 
(Bedell) Ball, he is a direct descendant of 
Jonathan Ball, a Revolutionary soldier. He 
married Cornelia Mueller, September 16, 
1897. They have three children, Thomas 
Franklin, Robert Cornelius, and Jonathan 
Mueller Ball. 

Bandaret, Leon (M.E., '87), has not been 
heard from since graduation. 

Bang, Arthur Charles (M.E., '98), was 
born in New York city, January 13, 1877. 
He has been employed as draughtsman on 
special work with G. W. Pond, New York ; 
in the same capacity with the American Air 
Power Co., New York, and at the Bethune 
Street works of the Western Electric Co., 
New York. He was manager of the Stur- 
tevant House, New York, 1899-1903; and 
from 1903 to date has been superintendent 




of the Hotel Collingwood, New York. He 
is a member of the Tau Beta Pi fraternity. 



Mr. Bang is the son of Henry J. and Au- 
gusta F. (Bergstein) Bang. His ancestors 
originally came from the Rhine country, 
Germany. He married Eleanor L. Gilles, 
February 26, 1902. 

Bang, Henry August (M.E., '88), was 
born in New York city, February 5, 1867. 




H. A. Bang 

His employments have been with the Kort- 
ing Gas Engine Co., manufacturing gas en- 
gines ; the National Water Purifying Co., for 
whom he designed and superintended the 
erection of plants for purifying water, in 
various parts of the country, 1889-91 ; the 
Haskin Wood Vulcanizing Co., New York, 
1891 ; the John A. Roebling's Sons Co.'s 
works, Trenton, N. J., 1892, designing 
machines for covering wire with cotton in^ 
sulation ; and as consulting engineer, jointly 
with Mr. E. B. .Benham, for the Brott Elec- 
tric Rapid Transit Bicycle Railway Co., 
1893. He has been a mechanical engineer 
and contractor for power plants, steam and 
hot water heating, etc., from 1894 to date, 
and is also the owner and manager of the 
Kensington Hotel, Saratoga Springs, N. Y. 
He is a member of the American Society of 
Mechanical Engineers, and of the New York 
State Hotel Association. Until January, 
1903, he was a member of the American In- 
stitute of Mining Engineers. 

Mr. Bang, who is the son of Henry J. 



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and Augusta F. (Bergstein) Bang, married 
Laura Belle Pullen, June 5, 1895. Lhey 
have one child living, Frank Lester Bang. 
Another child, William Henry Bang, died 
August 16, 1896. 

Barnes, William O. (M.E., '84), was born 
in Newburgh, N. Y., in 1864. He engaged in 
silk-manufacture at Paterson, N. J., under 
the firm name of Barnes & Reel, until 1889; 
then at Barmen, Germany, 1889-91, and 
again at Paterson, 1891-93, as superinten- 
dent of the Barnes Manufacturing Co. He 
was engaged in the same line of work as 
superintendent with the Gregory Silk Man- 
ufacturing Co., Scranton, Pa., 1893-94; and 
later with the Blickensderfer Manufactur- 
ing Co., manufacturers of typewriting ma- 
chines, Stamford, Conn., 1895-1900; the 
American Bicycle Co., Toledo, O., 1901-02; 
the Mergenthaler Linotype Co., Brooklyn, 
N. Y., 1902; and with the Ross Rifle Com- 
pany of Canada, at Hartford, Conn., from 
1902 to date. 

Mr. Barnes, who is the son of David A. 
and Elsie E. (Ackerman) Barnes, married 
Grace D. Herdman, May 8, 1889. They have 
two children, William Oliver and Herdman 
Barnes. 

Barnum, Dana Dwight (M.E., '95), was 
born at Bethel,, Conn., August 15, 1872. His 
employments since graduation have been as 
draughtsman with E. W. Bliss & Co., Brook- 
lyn, N. Y., 1895 ; as chemist with the Wor- 
cester Gas Light Co., Worcester, Mass., 
1895-96; as superintendent of distribution 
for the same company, 1896-1902; and as 
its superintendent from 1902 to date. He is 
a member of the American Society of Me- 
chanical Engineers; the New England As- 
sociation of Gas Engineers ; the Worcester 
Club; and the Beta Theta Pi and Theta Nu 
Epsilon fraternities. 

Mr. Barnum is the son of W. H. and 
Lydia Alvord Barnum. He married Mary 
Caroline Munroe, October 16, 1900. 

Bates, George Harold (M.E., '98), was 
born in Hackensack, N. J., August 22, 1877. 
He became an instructor during the Sup- 
plementary Term at Stevens Institute in 
1898; and later served as engine draughts- 
man with the Burlee Dry Dock Co., Port 



Richmond, Staten Island, 1898-99. As 
draughtsman he assisted in designing the 
machinery of four sea-going and four har- 
bor tugs. From 1899 to date he has been 
chief engineer of the above company,' and 
during that period he has designed and su- 
pervised the construction of the machinery in 
the following boats : New York Central 
Railroad Co.'s lighters Nos. 4 and 6, having 
single engines, and flue and return tubular 
boilers of 400 indicated horse-power ; the 
Pennsylvania Railroad ferry-boat " Chica- 
go," with a compound engine and Thorny- 
croft water-tube boilers of about 1,200 
indicated horse-power; the piping arrange- 




G. H. Bates 

ments of four Standard Oil Co.'s barges of 
about 150 feet in length, and the piping, 
boilers, etc., of a 300-foot barge for the same 
company; the twin-screw lighthouse tender 
" Larkspur," with compound engines and 
gunboat boilers of 750 indicated horse-power ; 
the twin-screw lighthouse tender " Sumac," 
with compound engines and Scotch boil- 
ers of 700 indicated horse-power; the 
twin-screw yacht " Rheclair," with triple- 
expansion engines of 2,500 indicated horse- 
power and four Almy water-tube boilers, 
and an actual speed of 17 knots; the twin- 
screw yacht, " Noma," with four-cylinder 
triple-expansion engines of 5,000 indicated 
horse-power and six Almy boilers, and an 
actual speed of 19J knots ; the harbor tug 



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" Independent," with a compound engine and 
fantail boiler of 850 indicated horse-power; 
the Erie Railroad ferry-boat " Arlington," 
with two compound engines and two Scotch 
boilers of about 1,400 indicated horse-power; 
a compound engine 20 and 42 X 28 for tug 
"Coastwise;" a triple-expansion engine 17, 
25, and 43 X 30, to run a centrifugal pump, 
of 950 indicated horse-power ; and the en- 
gines and pumping machinery of a 4,000-ton 
dry dock belonging to the Burlee Dry Dock 
Co. Mr. Bates has also designed numerous 
tool attachments and a fifty-ton derrick with 
a wooden mast and steel boom. He is a 
member of the Cranford Country Club, and 
an associate member of the Society of Naval 
Architects and Marine Engineers. 

Mr. Bates is the son of George Greer and 
Fannie Elizabeth (Robjohn) Bates. His 
father's ancestors, originally from England, 
settled in Massachusetts during the 17th 
century. His mother's ancestors came from 
Cornwall, England. He married Elizabeth 
M. Miller, November 7, 1901. 

Bates, James Hervey (M.E., '87), was 
born in Woodburn (now part of Cincinnati), 



Br * 



J. H. Bates 

O., August 28, 1863. He is of New England 
Colonial stock and of purely English descent 
for centuries ; the son of Joshua H. and 
Elizabeth (Hoadly) Bates, and grandson of 
Dr. George Bates, U.S.N. He has studied 



natural science since he was ten years of 
age, has travelled much in North America 
and Europe, and has undertaken much ex- 
periment and research work relating to in- 
sect life. He engaged in a brief dynamo 
test under the direction of Professors Geyer 
and Jacobus, 1887; and was employed in the 
development of the trolley system, with F. 
J. Sprague, 1887-88. He was one of the 
construction corps of the first trolley line in 
Richmond, Va., and was also employed upon 
the construction of the earlier electric lines 
in other cities. In 1888 he was employed on 
the Bentley-Knight conduit system, prepar- 
ing designs and working and other drawings 
for extensions of conduit roads then in op- 
eration, thus assisting in the development of 
many of the inventions of Messrs. Bentley, 
Knight, and Blackwell. In the same year he 
calculated the equalizers for the local Edi- 
son Co., of Philadelphia, of which plant Prof. 
William D. Marks was at the time super- 
visor. He was engaged upon work in con- 
nection with the first trolley line in Boston, 
Mass. He was employed in construction 
work in connection with the Manhattan 
Electric Light Co., and the West Side Elec- 
tric Light Co., in New York, in 1889; and as 
constructing engineer and draughtsman, for 
central stations of what is now the Eort 
Wayne Electric Corporation, 1889-91 ; and 
with the Moore Electrical Manufacturing 
Co., 1891-93. He associated with his brother, 
Mr. C. J. Bates, of New York, as consulting 
engineer, 1893-98, and the brothers did much 
consulting work for various parties, includ- 
ing Mr. J. Munsie, who supervised the build- 
ing of a large part of the earlier telegraph 
mileage of the United States and Canada, 
and also the wire lines of the Canadian Pa- 
cific Railroad from Montreal to British Co- 
lumbia. Jointly with Mr. J. A. Guest he 
designed a system for applying the electric 
light to marine life-saving apparatus, life- 
buoys, life-boats, and life-rafts, which has 
been covered by broad patents. He was en- 
gaged with F. L. Smidth & Co., of New York, 
engineers for cement plants, mills and ma- 
chinery, 1899-1901 ; was then in the engi- 
neering department of the New York Edison 
Co., and of the Interurban Street Railway 
Co., and is now with F. S. Pearson, consult- 
ing engineer. New York. Mr. Bates and Mr. 
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patents, 512,957 and 551,081, and two Brit- 
ish patents, Nos. 980, of 1894, and 23,674, of 
1895. For the problem of the " dynamite 
rocket " for coast-defence Mr. Bates has a 
solution in the application of the enlarged 
simple sky-rocket, which is covered by a 
patent. Besides the patents already men- 
tioned he has taken out one for traction 
improvements, one for an annunciator, and 
another for an incandescent lamp. He has 
contributed a number of articles to the Elcc- 
Irical Engineer, 1895 and 1896, and to the 
Street Raihvay Journal, 1896 and 1897. He 
is a member of the American Institute of 
Electrical Engineers ; also of the Technology 
Club of New York. 

Bayless, Charles Thomas (M.E., '93), 
was born in Louisville, Ky., September 2, 
1871. He was an instructor during the Sup- 
plementary Term at Stevens Institute, 1893 ; 
and was engaged with Mr. David L. Barnes, 
consulting engineer, of Chicago, 1893-96. 
On account of ill health he was compelled 
to go to New Mexico in 1896, where he be- 
came chemist in a small smelter at Chloride, 
N. M., during the spring- of 1897. After the 
closing down of the smelter he went to Mex- 
ico City and entered the employ of the Mex- 
ican Central Railway, 1897, as draughtsman 
in the motive power department. In 1899 
he was made chief draughtsman, and on 
September i, 1901, was appointed mechani- 
cal engineer of the same road, with head- 
quarters in Mexico City. He is a member 
of the Railway Club of Mexico, and a junior 
member of the American Society of Mechan- 
ical Engineers; member of Beta Theta Pi 
and Theta Nu Epsilon fraternities ; Past 
Master of the Toltec Lodge No. 214, Free 
and Accepted Masons, Mexico City ; and a 
member of Mexico City Chapter of Royal 
Arch Masons. 

Mr. Bayless, who is the son of Benjamin 
and Wilhelmine C. Bayless, married Clara 
E. Lindamood, April 4, 1899. They have 
one child, Wilhelmine Crawford Bayless. 

Baylis, Robert Nelson (M.E., '87), was 
born in Englewood, N. J., March 16, 1867; 
the son of Robert and Martha N. (Smith) 
Baylis. He was an apprentice in the shops' 
of the Southwark Foundry & Machine Co., 
Philadelphia, Pa., 1887-89; draughtsman, 



and then successively head draughtsman, 
purchasing agent, electrician, and chief en- 
gineer of the C & C Electric Co., New 
York, 1889-93. In the latter capacity he 
had entire charge of the works of the com- 
pany, including the manufacturing as well 




R. N. Baylis 

as the designing of a variety of electrical 
machinery. He designed and constructed a 
full- line of motors from one to one hundred 
horse-power during this engagement. It 
was at this time also that he devised the in- 
genious " reaction " brush-holder, which 
was such a radical departure from all pre- 
vious devices of the kind that when it was 
first introduced it aroused endless arguments 
as to whether the carbon could possibly re- 
main in the holder when the machine was in 
motion. Mr. Baylis introduced numerous 
improvements into the factory methods and 
management of his company. In 1893 he 
resigned from the C & C Electric Co., and 
visited the Columbian Exposition at Chica- 
go, and among other engagements was em- 
ployed by the Committee of Awards in 
testing some of the large direct connected 
railway and power generators that were in 
service at the intramural power station dur- 
ing the season of the Exposition. After re- 
turning to New York he was engaged for a 
time upon engineering work in connection 
with isolated electric light and power plants, 
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electric-power transmission for factories, and 
in the summer of 1894 entered the employ of 
the Walker Co., Cleveland, O., in its street 
railway department. He was eventually put 
in charge of all the technical work of the 
Walker Co., and gave his attention particu- 
larly to the designing of railway generators. 
The cut shown herewith of a 1,500 K. W. 
generator is an example of his work in this 
line, which comprised machines of all sizes, 
and for lighting as well as for railway and 
power purposes. He also had charge of the 
outside construction and erection work. In 



mechanical devices and specialties. Mr. 
Baylis has been retained as expert in 
numerous patent causes before the United 
States circuit courts, which involved techni- 
cal points in the manufacture of electrical 
apparatus of various kinds. United States 
patents have been issued to Mr. Baylis in 
connection with the commutator brush-hold- 
er, 1893; a brush-holder support, 1899; a 
fluid pressure-regulator, 1900 ; and an anti- 
fluctuating device for gas service-pipes, 1902, 
and other applications for patents are pend- 
ing. He is a member of the American In- 




[,500 Kilowatt Generator 
R. N. Bay/is 



1896 he was appointed chief electrical engi- 
neer of the Walker Co. ; but in February, 
1897, hs resigned this position and entered 
into partnership with his brother, under the 
name of " The Baylis Company," mechani- 
cal and electrical engineers and contractors. 
Finding that there was a large demand from 
dynamo and motor builders and users for the 
Baylis reaction brush-holder, the Baylis 
Company began the manufacture of these 
holders, and since then have branched 
out into the manufacture of various other 



stitute of Electrical Engineers, and served 
as a member of its board of examiners ; also 
a member of the American Society of Me- 
chanical Engineers ; the Delta Tau Delta 
fraternity ; the Engineers' Club ; the New 
York Athletic Club, and the Brooklyn Insti- 
tute of Arts and Sciences. 

Beach, Willard J. (M.E., '97), was, after 
his graduation, employed in the Meadows 
shops, and in the office of the superintendent 
of motive power, of the Pennsylvania Rail- 



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road, Jersey City, N. J. ; and from 1900 to 
date he has been draughtsman with Heyl 
& Patterson, contracting engineers, of Pitts- 
burg, Pa. He is a member of the Tau Beta 
Pi fraternity. 

Beale, Frederick Wight (M.E., 99), was 
born in Omaha, Neb., March 3, 1875. Since 
graduation he has been draughtsman with 
the Oxnard Construction Co., New York, 
1899; engaged in remodelHng the plant of 
the Peninsular Beet Sugar Refining Co., for 







the same concern, at Caro, Mich., 1900; 
draughtsman with the Carbondale Machine 
Co., Carbondale, Pa., 1900; business mana- 
ger and in charge of the installation of re- 
frigerating plants at the New York office 
during the absence of the regular manager, 
and later chief draughtsman at the Carbon- 
dale works, 1901-02; assistant superintend- 
ent of construction during the enlargement 
of the Peninsular Beet Sugar Refining Co., 
for the Oxnard Construction Co., at Caro, 
Mich., 1902 : assistant engineer and mana- 
ger of draughting department with the Con- 
tinental Construction Co., Denver, Colo., 
and has been engaged in the complete de- 
signing and construction of beet sugar refin- 
eries, 1903 to date. He is a member of the 
Chi Phi fraternity. 

Mr. Beale is the son of Francis A. and 
Anna Belknap Beale^ and is descended from 



John Beale, who came from Old Hingham, 
England, to New Hingham, Mass., in 1636; 
and on his mother's side from the Fiske, 
Wight, and Belknap families who came to 
Massachusetts early in the 17th century. He 
married Jeannette Lane, January 20, 1900, 
and they have one child, Edward Belknap 
Beale. 

Beard, Maximillian Cornelius (M.E., '87), 
was born in Biloxi, Miss., November 27, 
1865. Before entering Stevens Institute he 
spent three years at the Tulane University, 
New Orleans, La., in the general academic 
course. He was assistant engineer with the 
Welsbach Gas Light Co., New York and 
Philadelphia, 1888-89; half-owner of the 
Ontario Iron Works, Canandaigua, N. Y., 
1889-96, manufacturing light gray-iron cast- 
ings and building light machinery ; superin- 
tendent of works with the Herendeen Manu- 
facturing Co., Geneva, N. Y., manufacturing 
cast-iron steam and hot-water heating-boil- 
ers, 1897-98; in the sales department of the 
liohman & Maurer Manufacturing Co., New 
York, 1898-1900; assistant manager of sales 
department with the Elliott & Hatch Book 
Typewriter Co., New York, and also pur- 
chasing agent with the same company, 1900 
to date. He is a member of the Red Jacket 
Club, Canandaigua, N. Y., and a charter 
member of Mu chapter of Chi Phi at Stevens 
Institute. 

Mr. Beard is the son of Cornelius and 
Philadelphia I. Beard. His father was born 
in England, and his mother at Canandaigua, 
N. Y., of Scotch parents. He married Ger- 
trude Field Finley, September 22, 1888. 
Three children were born to them, of whom 
Stuart-Menteth and Philadelphia Isabella 
Beard, are living. 

Beatty, James, Jr. (M.E., "84), was born 
in Baltimore, Md., May 12, 1861. He was 
educated in the public schools of Baltimore, 
and at Bethel Military Academy, Va., after 
which he entered Stevens Institute in 1880, 
He was an ardent seeker after knowledge, 
especially that derived from personal experi- 
ment. He was professor of engineering 
branches at Haverford College, Pa., 1884- 
86; superintendent of James Beatty & Co.'s 
works, Baltimore, Md., 1886-90; and with 
Wieting & Richter, Georgetown, Demerara, 



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until his death, August 24, 1893. He was a 
member of the American Society for the Ad- 
vancement of Science, and of the Beta Theta 
Pi fraternity ; also one of the founders of the 
Engineers' C\uh, of Philadelphia. 

The son of James and Mary Louisa Good- 
win Beatty, James Beatty, Jr., was sixth in 
descent from John Beatty, who was born in 
Scotland in 1660, left that country on ac- 
count of religious persecution, and after 
remaining some time in Ireland, and in Eng- 
land, where he married Susanna Affordby, 
and also in Plolland, came to America about 
1700 and settled at Esopus, N. Y. After his 
death his widow and children removed to 
Maryland about 1728. On his mother's side 
James Beatty, Jr., was of English descent, 
tracing his ancestry back through the Good- 
wins, Howards, Ridgeleys, and Dorseys. He 
married Margaret Isabel Williams, July 15, 



Mr. Beck, who is the son of Jacob and 
Karolina (Maurer) Beck, married Hortense 




James Beatty, Jr. 

1886. One son, James Castleman Beatty, 
was born to them. 

Beck, George Henry (M.E., '99), was born 
in New York city; December 30, 1875. He 
has been second assistant superintendent of 
the tire department of the Midvale Steel 
Co., Nicetown, Philadelphia, Pa., from 1899 
to date. In the spring of 1902 the Midvale 
Steel Co. sent Mr. Beck on a three-months 
tour of inspection of European steel plants. 
He is a member of the Theta Xi fraternity. 




G. H. Beck 

Burnham Thompson, November 22, 1899. 
They have two children, Rodney Maurer and 
Newton Thompson Beck. 

Beers, William J. (M.E., '89), was a grad- 
uate assistant in the Drawing Depart- 
ment of Stevens Institute, 1889-92, and has 
been head draughtsman for W. D. Forbes 
& Co., engineers, Hoboken, from 1892 to 
flate. Plis work has consisted largely in de- 
signing high speed engines of from 300 to 
800 revolutions per minute, for various con- 
ditions of government, marine, and electric- 
light service. 

Benavides, Rafael Augusto (M.E., '00), 
the son of Ramon and Serafina Benavides, 
was born in Guatemala, Central America, 
October 12, 1877. He received the degree 
of Bachelor of Arts at Puerto Principe, 
Cuba, June 15, 1893. He has been employed 
in the testing department of the Western 
Electric Co., New York, 1900; in the meter 
department of the Edison Electric Illuminat- 
ing Co., New York, 1900-01 ; in the superin- 
tendent's office of the C. W. Hunt Co., West 
New Brighton, Staten Island, 1901-02; as 
electrical engineer for the Chaparra Sugar 
Co., Chaparra, Cuba, 1902-04; and is now 
assistant engineer of the Public Works of 



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Camagney, Cuba. He 
Theta Xi fraternity. 



is a member of the 



Benedict, Harding (M.E., '96), has, since 
graduation, served with the E. W. Bliss Co., 
Brooklyn, N. Y., 1896-98; as engineer with 
the New York Steam Co., New York, 1898- 
1901 ; and with Robert A. Keasbey, New 
York, handling heat-insulating materials, 
pipe and boiler coverings, etc., from 1901 to 
date. 

Benjamins, Israel (M.E., '01), son of Ben- 
jamin and Rebecca Benjamins, was born in 
the village of Eftodia, near the city of Balta, 
Russia, December 2, 1871. His Hebrew an- 
cestors have been domiciled in southwestern 
Russia from. times immemorial. He grew up 
in Odessa, coming to the United States in 
1894, and being naturalized in 1900. He was 
in the employ of the Burlee Dry Dock 
Co., Port Richmond, Staten Island, 1901- 
02; with the Oakes Manufacturing Co., 
Steinway, Long Island, 1902-03 ; in the 
draughting department of the General Elec- 
tric Co., Schenectady, N. Y., 1903; with the 
Brooklyn Water Supply Department, New 
York, 1903-04 ; and is now in the department 



stop, issued in 1897; and a caveat, filed in 
1901, on an improved steam turbine, for 
which patent application is now pending. 




Israel Benjamins 

of Public Works, Borough of Richmond, 
New Brighton, Staten Island, N. Y. He 
has a patent on an improvement in wind- 
mills, issued in 1902 ; one on a car-fender and 



Bennett, 

and John 



Frank (M.E., '01), son of Mary 
Bennett, was born in London, 




Frank Bennett 

England, January 18, 1874. He has 
been employed by the Edward Ogden Co., 
New York, 1901 ; the United Gas Im- 
provement Co., Philadelphia, Pa., 1901-02; 
and has been with the Worcester Gas 
Light Co., since 1902, being now engaged 
as superintendent of works. He is a mem- 
ber of the Free and Accepted Masons, and 
of the Phi Sigma Kappa fraternity. 

Benns, Charles P. (M.E., '89), has been 
draughtsman with the Garvin Machine Co., 
New York, 1889-90; assistant foreman in 
the machine shop of the Builders' Iron Foun- 
dry, Providence, R. I., 1890-91 ; machinist, 
foreman, and draughtsman with the Brown 
& Sharpe Manufacturing Co., Providence, 
1891-93 ; teacher of applied mechanics and 
shopwork, at Providence Manual-Training 
High School, 1893-97; ^nd instructor in 
metal work and mechanical and electrical en- 
gineering courses at the Teachers' College, 
New York, from 1897 to date. He is a joint 
patentee of an instrument for platting stadia 
notes, 1896; an occasional contributor to the 
American Machinist; and a member of the 
American Society of Mechanical Engineers. 



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Bensel, John A. (M.E., '84), was born in 
New York city in 1863. He served as rod- 
man at the New York Aqueduct, 1884; in 
the same capacity with the Pennsylvania 
Railroad Co., 1884-87; as assistant engineer 
and assistant supervisor with the last-named 
company, 1887-89, during which period, ex- 
cept while acting as assistant supervisor, his 
work was principally in charge of the im- 
provement of the dock and freight terminals 
of the road; assistant engineer in the New 
York Dock Department, 1889-95, having 
entire charge of all construction work on 
the North River water-front ; engineer for 
water-front improvements, 1895-98, acting 
as consulting engineer for the New Jersey 
Central Railroad, for the Girard Estate of 
Philadelphia, and for the municipality of 
Philadelphia in the improvement of a mile 
of the water-front on the Delaware River; 
and has been engineer-in-chief of the De- 
partment of Docks, New York, from 1898 
to date. 

His reports on " An Improved Balance 
Transfer Bridge," and on " The Removal 
of Rock in Thirty-five Feet of Water in 
New York City," have been published in the 
Transactions of the American Society of 
Civil Engineers. He presented a paper on 
" Wharves and Piers " at the International 




gineers in St. Louis, October 3-8, 1904, 
during the Louisiana Purchase Exposition. 
He is a member of the American Society of 
Civil Engineers; of the Engineers', Univer- 
sity, Union, and City Mid-Day clubs, of 
New York ; and of the Delta Tau Delta fra- 
ternity. 

Mr. Bensel is the son of Brownlee and 
Mary Maclay Bensel, American on both 
sides for two generations, and tracing back 
to Scotch and Dutch ancestry. He married 
Ella Louise Day in 1896. Two children have 
been born to them, Louise Day and John A. 
(Jr.) Bensel. 

Berg, Howard Morrell (M.E., '99), son of 
Maurice Michael and Nellie (Morrell) Berg, 




J. A. Bensel 

Engineering Congress, held under the aus- 
pices of the American Society of Civil En- 



was born in Elizabeth, N. J., January 31, 
1877. He has been employed in the ord- 
nance department of the Midvale Steel Co., 
Philadelphia, Pa., from 1899 to date. He 
is a member of the Theta Nu Epsilon fra- 
ternity. 

Berg, Louis de Lissa (M.E., '99), the son 
of Hart E. and Rega (de Lissa) Berg, was 
born in Philadelphia, Pa., February 11, 1878. 
He was in the motor carriage department of 
the Pope Manufacturing Co., Hartford, 
Conn., 1899-1901 ; with the Manhattan Brass 
Co., New York, 1901-02; manager of the 
Wanamaker Automobile Station, New York, 



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1902; and has been a member of the firm of 
Kennedy & Berg, automobile engineers and 




I.. DE L. Berg 



agents, New York, from 1902 to date. He 
is a member of the Tau Beta Pi fraternity. 



between the Driving and Pumping Heads," 
written by Mr. Beutler in connection with 
Messrs. P. J. Brune and T. J. Main, was 
published in the issue of the Stevens Insti- 
tute Indicator for April, 1898. He is a 




Albert Beutler, Jb 



Bernhard, Harry T. (M.E., '96), has not 
been heard from since graduation. 

Betts, Harold Scofield (M.E., 00), the 
son of John MacEwen and Ellen (Scofield) 
Betts, was born in New York city, July 2y, 
1876. He has been employed in the engineer- 
ing department of the New Amsterdam Gas 
Co., New York : and in the United States De- 
partment of Agriculture, Bureau of Forestry, 
Washington, D. C. He is a member of the 
Beta Theta Pi and Tau Beta Pi fraternities. 

Beutler, Albert, Jr. (M.E., 97), was born 
in Jersey City, N. J., April i, 1876. He was 
employed at the Eagle Oil Works, Commun- 
ipaw, 'X. J., 1897-98: with Mr. A. R. Shat- 
tuck, New York, designer and builder of 
gasoline motor carriages, and chief draughts- 
man for the Automobile Company of Amer- 
ica, 1898-99 ; assistant superintendent of the 
same company, 1899-1902; and has been 
manager of the automobile body department 
of the firm of Frederick R. Wood & Son, 
New York, from 1902 to date. A thesis on 
" Efficiency Test under High Driving Heads 
and the Determination of the Lowest Ratio 



member of the University Club of Hudson 
County, N. J. 

Beyer, Richard (JNI.E., "88), was born in 
Jersey City, N. J., April 8, 1868. He was 
general assistant with Beyer & Tivy, civil 
engineers, Hoboken, 1888; draughtsman for 
the United Gas Improvement Co., Philadel- 
phia, 1888-89, fi^'st in the Philadelphia office, 
then assistant engineer in extension of a gas 
plant at Marshall, Mich.; then employed in 
making maps of gas mains at Sioux City, 
Iowa, and at Omaha, Neb. ; and still later 
in making plans of a gas plant at Sioux 
Falls, Dak. ; next chief assistant in the 
office of Beyer & McCann (later Thomas 
H. McCann, member of the American So- 
ciet}' of Civil Engineers), Hoboken, 1889- 
1903: now associated with Mr. McCann as 
partner, under the firm name of T. H. Mc- 
Cann & R. Beyer. The work in which Mr. 
Beyer has been engaged includes a long list 
of important surveys, constructions, maps, 
etc. The surveying work in constructing the 
Carnegie Laboratory of Engineering was 
done by him. He is a member of the Ger- 
man Club of Hoboken. 



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Mr. Beyer is the son of Albert and Ida 
Beyer. His father is a civil engineer, and 
architect of many prominent buildings, such 
as the Hoboken Library, School No. 6, the 
Hoboken Theatre, etc., and many private 
buildings, factories, etc. His grandfather 
was an officer in the customs department, 
Germany. Mr. Beyer married Caroline A. 
Rabe, March 30, 1893. One girl, Hilda Lus- 
bie Beyer, has blessed their union. 

Bingham, Carl G. (M.E., '02), is with the 
Samuel Bingham's Son Manufacturing Co., 
Chicago, 111. Mr. Bingham married Mary 
Norris Simon, daughter of Dr. C. Irving 
Simon of Hoboken, N. J., January 20, 1904. 

Birchard, Pliny T. (M.E., 78), has, since 
graduation, been engaged in the motive 
power department of the Lake Shore & 
Michigan Southern Railway at Elkhart, Ind., 
1878-79, then at Marshalltown, Iowa, 1879- 
81 ; as civil engineer with the Wisconsin, 
Iowa, & Nebraska Railway (now the Chica- 
go Great Western) at Des Moines, Iowa, 
1883-84; in the same capacity with the Kan- 
sas City & Southern Railway at Kansas City, 
Mo., 1884-86; as railroad contractor, doing 
work on various railroads in Missouri, Ne- 
braska, and South Dakota, 1886-90; member 
of the firm of Birchard, Bridge, & Co., Nor- 
folk, Neb., 1890-97; and as general foreman 
of bridges and buildings on the Eastern di- 
vision of the Fremont, Elkhorn, & Missouri 
Valley Railway at Norfolk, Neb., since 1897. 



cessful operation over the Harlem River at 
Third Avenue, New York. He is a member 




E. T. BiRDSALL 

of the American Institute of Electrical En- 
gineers; the Delta Kappa Epsilon fraternity, 
the Automobile Club of America ; and the 
New York Athletic and Camera clubs. 

Mr. Birdsall is the son of George W. and 
Jane E. Birdsall, of English and Dutch de- 
scent, and a member of a family that for 
five generations have been engineers. He 
married Louise Banker Goetchius in 1892. 
Two children, Beatrice and Mildred Bird- 
sail, have been born of this union. 



Birdsall, Edward Tracy (M.E., '86), was 
born in Cumberland, Md., April 14, 1863. 
He has been draughtsman in the motive 
power department of the Manhattan Elevated 
Railroad, New York, 1886-87; with the 
United States Electric Lighting Co., 1887- 
88; the Edison Electric Light Co., 1888; the 
C & C Motor Co., 1889; the Daft Electric 
Co., 1889; and the Edison United Manufac- 
turing Co., 1889-92. From 1892 to date he has 
been a consulting electrical engineer, in New 
York, and is now engaged in the manufac- 
ture of automobiles. He has about 16 patents 
on electric and automobile devices. Mr. 
Birdsall contributed an article to the Elec- 
trical World and Engineer, July 22, 1899, on 
an " Electric Contact Device for a Draw- 
bridge," designed by him, and now in suc- 



Blankenship, Robert Millington (M.E., 
'88), was born in Richmond, Va., May 5, 
1866. He was successively draughtsman, 
chemist, assistant to superintendent, and su- 
perintendent of the nail department, and 
from 1894 to the time of his death was gen- 
eral superintendent of the Old Dominion 
Iron & Nail Works Co., engaged in the 
manufacture of bar-iron, nails, horse-shoes, 
bolts and nuts, and high-grade refined iron. 
The plant is operated by steam, water, and 
electric power. He was also the superinten- 
dent of the granite quarry and stone- 
crushing plant. He was a member of the 
American Society of Mechanical Engineers; 
of the Commonwealth Club, of Richmond, 
Va. ; and of the Alpha Xi Chapter of the Chi 
Psi fraternity. 



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Mr. Blankenship was the son of Robert 
Emmett and Kate (Millington) Blanken- 
ship, and the grandson of John Millington, 
M.D., C.E., and F.R.S., of Great Britain, who 
was, successively, professor of mechanics in 
the Royal Institution of Great Britain; of 
civil engineering and applications of science 
in the London University; and of chemistry, 
natural philosophy and civil engineering in 
William and Mary College, Va. He mar- 
ried Virginia Sinclair Cadot, December 6, 
1893. He was drowned in the forebay of the 
Horse-Shoe mill of the Old Dominion Lon 
& Nail \\4orks Co. at Richmond, Va., Jan- 



latter position in 1892 and came north again, 
and has since been giving most of his at- 




R. M. Blankenship 



uary 22, 1904. He left a widow and two 
children, Robert Moore and John Millington 
Blankenship. 

Blauvelt, Cornelius D. (M.E., '86), was 
born in Oradell, N. J., August 23, 1864; 
the son of James C. and Eliza A. (Zabris- 
kie) Blauvelt. His paternal ancestors were 
early Dutch settlers of Manhattan and vi- 
cinity. His maternal ancestors came from 
Poland a century or more ago. He com- 
pleted two years of the classical course at 
Marietta College, Ohio, before entering the 
Stevens Listitute. He was assistant superin- 
tendent of the United Gas Lnprovement Co., 
Paterson, N. J., 1887-89, and superintendent 
and secretary for the same company at St. 
Augustine, Fla., 1889-92; but resigned the 




tention to private business which has not 
been of a professional character. 

Blumgardt, Isaac (M.E., '98), son of Jacob 
and Sophia Blumgardt, was born in New 
York city, April 29, 1877, and prepared for 




Isaac Blumgardt 



Stevens Institute at the College of the City 
of New York. He was engaged in the De- 



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partment of Tests at Stevens Institute, 1898; 
with the Edison Electric Illuminating Co., 
New York, 1899; as draughtsman in the en- 
gineering department of the Metropolitan 
Street Railway Co., New York, 1900-01 ; 
in charge of the inspecting, testing, etc., in 
the department of construction and repair 
at the Brooklyn Navy Yard, New York, 
190T-03; and is now in the engineering de- 
partment of the New York Central & Hud- 
son River Railroad, New York. 

Mr. Blumgardt is a member of the Tau 
Beta Pi fraternity. 

Boettger, Robert (M.E., 98), was born in 
Union Hill, N. J., May 24, 1874; attended 
public school at West Hoboken; and gradu- 
ated from the Hoboken Academy. He pre- 
pared for the Institute at Stevens School. 
He was vice-president and chief engineer 
of the Boettger Piece Dye Works, at Lodi, 
N. J., 1898-1903 ; and thence to date has 
been secretary of the United Piece Dye 
Works at Lodi, and chief engineer of Mill 
B of that corporation. He is a member of 




Robert Boettger 

the Waverley Boat Club, and of the Ac- 
quackanouk Club, of Passaic. 

Mr. Boettger is the son of Henry W. 
and Pauline Boettger, being of German 
descent on his father's side and Ameri- 
can on his mother's. He married Paula G. 
Shimonek, January 20, 1902. 



Boiler, A. P., Jr. (M.E., '91), was born 
in East Orange, N. J., April 7, 1869. He 
received his preparatory education at the 
Dearborn-Morgan School, Orange, N. J., 
graduating in 1886. After receiving his de- 
gree from Stevens in 1891 he entered the 
shop and draughting room of the H. R. 
Worthington Hydraulic Works, Brooklyn, 
N. Y., and for two years was assistant on 
construction, operating and testing pumping 
engines. 

During 1893 he was with the Interna- 
tional Contracting Co., New York, in charge 
of dyke-building and dredging on govern- 
ment contract on the upper Hudson River, 
and also for a time with the Snow Steam 
Pump Works, in their New York office. 
In 1894 he returned to the H. R. Worthing- 
ton Co. and remained in their employ until 
1902, during which time he was in charge of 
construction work and engaged in the testing 
of pumping plants, and as assistant on tests. 
For one year he was manager of the Water 
Meter department. His most important 
work was on engines at the St. Louis Water 
Works, at Haverhill, Mass., and on three 
gas-compressor plants in Indiana (3,000 
H.P.). 

In 1898 he went to the Hawaiian Islands, 
headquarters at Honolulu, as engineer for 
the Worthington Co., and remained there 
for two years and a half, being in charge 
of the installation, construction, and test- 
ing of a complete irrigation plant, includ- 
ing some twelve high-duty triple-expan- 
sion engines with boilers, piping, and equip- 
ment, ranging in heads from 100 to 600 feet, 
and capacity for 5 to 10 million gallons per 
24 hours. Returning to New York, he was 
in charge on outside construction and testing 
of pumping engines, including six high-duty 
engines for the city of Philadelphia. Since 
1903 he has been in the employ, as engineer, 
of Westinghouse, Church, Kerr, & Co., New 
York, representing, in New York, the West- 
inghouse Machine Co. ; also in charge of 
the erection and operation of large Corliss 
engines and steam turbines in New York 
and New England, units ranging from 300 
kilowatts to 5,000 kilowatts. 

Mr. Boiler is a member of the American 
Society of Mechanical Engineers and an as- 
sociate member of the American Society of 
Civil Engineers. 



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Bolton, Harold Levering (M.E., '02), the 
son of Edward D. and Dora M. (Lovering) 
Bolton, was born in Somerville, Mass., April 
2, 1879. Since graduation he has been em- 
ployed in the engineering department of the 
American' Sheet Steel Co., 1902-04; and as 
assistant superintendent of the Waterbury 
works of the Franklin H. Kalbfleisch Co., 
manufacturing chemists, 1904 to date. He is 
a member of the Engineers' Society of West- 
ern Pennsylvania, and of the Delta Tau 
Delta fraternity. 

Bond, George Meade (M.E., '80), was 
born in Newburyport, Mass., July 17, 1852. 
The son of Daniel George and Wilhelminii 
Bond, he came of a long line of New Eng- 
land ancestry, his father's forebears having 
landed at Newbury, Mass., from England, 
about 1638. His work in connection with 
standards commenced in 1879, while in his 
senior year, through the foresight of Prof. 
James E. Denton, who, appreciating the im- 
portance of establishing a standard system 
of measurement, brought about relations be- 
tween Mr. Bond and Prof. William A. Rog- 
ers, at that time Professor of Astronomy at 
Harvard College Observatory, Cambridge. 
As assistant to the Professor, Mr. Bond de- 
signed a comparator, carrying out the astron- 
omer's ideas to enable him to conduct his 
investigations more efficiently in standards 
of length. Drawings were completed at the 
Institute in 1880, and on July i of that year 
Mr. Bond entered the service of the Pratt & 
Whitney Co., of Hartford, Conn., to carry 
out the work of establishing standards for 
the company, under the general direction of 
Prof. Rogers, whose scientific work forms 
the basis for the system of measurement 
now generally recognized as the practical 
solution of accurate interchangeability in 
machine-construction in this country. The 
comparator built by the Pratt & Whitney 
Co. in 1880-81, and since used for this work, 
was entered for record by a patent issued 
in 1885, now expired, the invention being 
jointly that of Prof. Rogers and Mr. Bond. 

The need of uniformity in the sizes and 
threads of bolts and nuts for railroad ser- 
vice was the incentive for much of the pre- 
liminary work above referred to, and its 
successful adoption and the many other ap- 
plications of standard interchangeabiHty, not 



only in railroad service, but in manufactures 
as well, has amply repaid the time and in- 
vestigation required for it. 

Mr. Bond was manager of the standards 
and gauge department of the Pratt & Whit- 
ney Co., Hartford, Conn., from 1880 to Oct. 
25, 1902. He is a Fellow of the American 




G. M. Bond 

Association for the Advancement of Science ; 
a member of the American Society of Me- 
chanical Engineers, the American Society 
of Civil Engineers, the Hartford Scientific 
Society, Hartford, Conn., and of the En- 
gineers' and Transportation clubs. New 
York. He was president of the Alumni As- 
sociation of Stevens Institute, 1886-87, ^^d 
Alumni Trustee of the same, 1895-98. He 
has been active on various committees of 
the American Society of Mechanical Engi- 
neers, and was chairman of the Committee 
on Units of Measurements, of the Ameri- 
can Society of Civil Engineers ; was secre- 
tary of Section D of the New York meeting, 
held in 1887, of the American Association 
for the Advancement of Science. 

The following papers have been presented 
by Mr. Bond at meetings of the American 
Society of Mechanical Engineers : " Stan- 
dard Measurements," Transactions, II ; "A 
Standard Gauge System," Ibid., HI ; 
" Standard Pipe and Pipe Threads," Ihid., 
VI. He also took part in various discus- 
sions. 



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In 1884 he delivered two lectures before 
the Franklin Institute, Philadelphia, — one 
upon " Standards of Length and their Sub- 
division," and the other upon " Standards of 
Length as Applied to Gauge Dimensions." 
He also lectured in 1888 before the Society 
of Arts, Massachusetts Institute of Technol- 
ogy, Boston, upon " Standards of Length 
and Their Practical Application." At the 
meeting of Section D of the American As- 
sociation for the Advancement of Science, 
held in Indianapolis in 1890, he presented 
a paper on " Internal Strains in Hardened 
Steel." Two articles by Mr. Bond, " An In- 
stance of Standards of Length Practically 



4^ 



cal Engineers, on standard unions for pipe, 
in 1901, and in 1902-03 a member of a com- 
mittee to report upon the metric system, and 
also a member of a committee on standard 
proportions for machine screws. 

Bonn, Hillric J. (M.E., '78), has been, 
since graduation, with the Dickson Locomo- 
tive Works, Scranton, Pa., 1878-80, and the 
Delamater Iron Works, New York, 1880- 
81 ; a member of the firm of Endress & Bonn, 
engineers, with offices at Pittsburg, Pa., and 
Hoboken, N. J., 1881-86; resident engineer 
of the North Hudson County Railway Co., 
Hoboken, N. J., 1886-93, and its vice-presi- 




5oND Standard Mea.suring-Machine 
G. M. Bond 



Applied," and " An Interesting Experiment 
with a Hot-Air Engine," appeared in the 
Stevens Indicator, V. and VIII, respec- 
tively. 

On February 15, 1902, Mr. Bond attended, 
by invitation, a hearing before the Con- 
gressional Committee on Coinage, Weights, 
and Measures, held in Washington in refer- 
ence to the proposed compulsory adoption of 
the metric system, opposing such legisla- 
tion, the metric system being already, by act 
of Congress in 1866, a legal standard. On 
the 19th of February he spoke before the 
Franklin Institute in Philadelphia on the 
same subject, also opposing the above-men- 
tioned compulsory measure. On the same 
day a committee of the American Society 
of Mechanical Engineers, of which Dr. 
Coleman Sellers, and Messrs. Coleman Sel- 
lers, Jr., J. E. Sweet, and Charles T. Porter, 
and Mr. Bond were the members, signed a 
report opposing the proposed legislation. He 
was also a member of the committee ap- 
pointed by the American Society of Mechani- 



dent, 1893-94. Upon the reorganization of 
the company in 1894 he retired, and has since 
resided at Weehawken, N. J. 

Bonnett, Louis Blake (M.E., '89), was 
born in New York city, June 8, 1867. He 
is the son of Daniel Blake and Margaret 
Augusta Bonnett, and of Huguenot French 
and English descent, a direct ancestor being 
Daniel Bonnett, who left France at the time 
of the revocation of the Edict of Nantes in 
1676, and came to America from England 
in 1700, settling near New York. Mr. Bon- 
nett was educated in private schools, and 
prepared for college at Pingry School, Eliz- 
abeth, N. J. He was assistant engineer of 
the Davids Machine Works, New York, 
1889-90, being employed in designing ma- 
chinery and on patent research ; draughts- 
man and designer on switchback-railroad 
construction for the Dunderberg Construc- 
tion Co., New York, 1890; assistant to the 
secretary of the American Society of Civil 
Engineers (his duties in this position con- 



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sisting of editorial work on the Society's 
Transactions, etc.), 1890-92; special cor- 
respondent and writer for the Railroad Ga- 
zette, 1892; assistant editor of the Street 




Railivay Journal, 1892-94; with the New 
York Tribune, 1895-96; employed on edit- 
orial work on America's Successful Men, 
and managing editor for the Bellman Pub- 
lishing" Co., Elizabeth, N. J., 1896; engaged 
upon literary work and expert and general 
engineering at Elizabeth, N. J., 1896 to 1902; 
and from 1902 to date has been mechanical 
engineering examiner of the Municipal Civil 
Commission of the City of New York, pre- 
paring and rating examinations on all sub- 
jects covered by the general scope of me- 
chanical engineering. He is the author of a 
paper on " The Test of Power Required to 
Drive Electric Street Cars and Total Effi- 
ciency of Motor," published with a discus- 
sion in the Transactions, XXVII, of the 
American Society of Civil Engineers, of 
which body he was a junior member, 1892- 
97. He is also a member of the Elizabeth 
Town and Country, Elizabeth, and Bay 
Head Yacht clubs. 

Boody, Alvin (M.E., '93), has been en- 
gaged, since graduation, with the Jenney 
Electric Motor Co., Indianapolis, Ind., 1893; 
with the Elmira Gas & Illuminating Co., El- 
mira, N. Y., 1893-95; and since then as 



general manager of the Winrow Gold Min- 
ing & Milling Co., Alma, Colo., and as 
deputy commissioner of parks for the bor- 
oughs of Brooklyn and Queens, New York. 
He is a life member of the Brooklyn Institute 
of Arts and Sciences. 

Borland, L. J. (M.E., '96), was from the 
time of his graduation, until recently, in- 
spector for the Middle States Inspection 
Bureau, New York. He is at present with 
the German American Insurance Co., New 
York. 

Botchford, Henry Jay (M.E., '01), was 
born in Port Leyden, N. Y., March 8, 1877. 
He is the son of Henry Jay and Clementine 
Garrison (Woodworth) Botchford. His 
father enlisted in the 44th New York State 
Volunteers in 1861, and rose to the rank of 
captain. Mr. Botchford has been with the 
Carbondale Machine Co., Carbondale, Pa., 
from 1901 to date. During the fall of 1901 
he was placed in charge of the erection of a 
20-ton ice-making and refrigerating-plant in 
the Yale Memorial dining hall. New Haven, 
Conn. In February, 1902, he took charge 
of the company's Pittsburg office for several 




H. J. Botchford 

months during the illness of the Pittsburg 
manager, there being then under construc- 
tion seven refrigerating-plants in Pittsburg 
and its vicinity. From August, 1902, until 



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recently, he was located at the company's 
main office at Carbondale, Pa., and he is 
now in charge of the Boston office. He is 
a member of the Delta Tau Delta frater- 
nity. 

A thesis, written in conjunction with 
Messrs. Chatard and Holcombe, on the 
" Comparison of Cost of Operating an Iron- 
Smelting Plant by Gas-Engines Using Waste 
Blast-Furnace Gas, and by Gas-Fired Boil- 
ers and Steani-Engines," was published in 
the Stcz'Ois Institute Indicator for January, 
1902. 

Boucher, William J. A. (M.E., '96), was 
born in Jersey City, N. J., January 19, 1875. 
He is of German-French and English de- 
scent, the son of John and Lydia (Ander- 
son) Boucher, and his parents resided in the 
Hudson River valley near Albany, where 
their antecedents had been settled for the 
past two centuries. Mr. Boucher has, since 
graduation, filled engagements as follows : 
draughtsman in the shops of the American 
Motor Co. (now the Automobile Company 
of America), builders of gasoline and kero- 
sene motors, 1897; in the testing department 
of the Sprague Electric Elevator Co., Wat- 
sessing, N. J., 1897-98; draughtsman, and 
on outside work installing heaters, blowers, 
and mechanical draught apparatus, for the 
New York office of the B. F. Sturtevant Co., 
1898-99; in the mechanical engineer's office 
of the Delaware & Hudson Railroad Co., at 
Albany, N. Y., 1899-1900; and in the chief 
engineer's office of the Rapid Transit Sub- 
way Construction Co., New York, from 1900 
to date. In 1902 he was appointed assistant 
engineer, in charge of the draughting office. 
He is a member of the New York Railroad 
Club. 

Boyer, Shirk- (M.E., '90), was born in 
Lebanon, Pa., October 19, 1869. He was as- 
sistant engineer with the Sloss Iron & Steel 
Co., Birmingham, Ala., 1890-94; in the em- 
ployment of Humphreys & Glasgow, gas en- 
gineers, New York and London, 1894-99; 
engineer in the water-gas department of the 
Julius Pintsch Co., Berlin, 1899 to date; and 
is now located at the Berlin office. 

Mr. Boyer is the son of Bassler and Ellen 
B. Boyer. He married Anna A. Gosau in 
1900, and two children, Henry Frederic and 



Helen Florence Boyer, have blessed their 
union. 




Shirk Boyer 

Brackett, Charles K. (M.E., '00), has 
been employed at the works of the American 
Sugar Refining Co., Jersey City, N. J., from 
1900 to date. A thesis on " The Rites Shaft 
Governor," written by Mr. Brackett and Mr. 
Buerger, was published in the issue of the 
Stci'ciis Institute Indicator for January, 1901. 

Bradley, Edgar L., Jr. (M.E., 'oi), has been 
with the American Beet Sugar Co., Chino, 
Cal., from 1901 to date. In 1904 he was 
transferred to the Rocky Ford factory of the 
same company at Rocky Ford, Colo. 

Brainard, Allen Wing (M.E., '84), was 
born in Brooklyn, N. Y., September 24, 1862. 
He was the son of John Allen and Evelene 
A. Brainard. His employments were in the 
testing and erecting departments of the 
Worthington Hydraulic Works, Brooklyn, 
N. ,Y., where he spent the six years from 
1884 to 1890; as manufacturers' agent in 
the city of New York, 1891-93; as repre- 
sentative in charge of the exhibit of the 
Bristol Co., manufacturers of self-recording 
instruments for pressure, temperature, and 
electricity, at the World's Fair, Chicago, 
1893; as representative of the same com- 
pany in New York, 1893-95 ! and again 
as manufacturers' agent, 1895-98. After a 



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lingering illness, Mr. Brainard died 
Monticello, N. Y., June 18, 1901. 




A. W. Brainard 

Braine, Bancroft Gherardi (M.E., '93), 
was born at the Navy Yard, New York, 
March 19, 1871. He is the son of the late 
Rear-Admiral Daniel L. Braine, U. S. Navy, 
who served in the Mexican and Civil wars, 
and Mary Elizabeth (Fulton) Braine. The 




er's Scotch ; but both parents and grand- 
parents were American born. Mr. Braine's 
engineering and other experiences have in- 
cluded those of draughtsman with Thomas 
E. Brown, M.A.S.C.E., chief engineer for 
the Otis Elevator Co., New York, working 
on elevator designs, etc., and especially on 
the design of the " Glasgow Harbor Tunnel 
Elevator," Glasgow, Scotland, 1893-94 ; 




name is originally Norman French ; his 
father's ancestry was English, and his moth- 



Lake George Incline 
B. G. Braine 

transit-man and time-keeper for C. F. Par- 
ker, M.E., on construction of a trolley road 
at Point Pleasant, N. J., 1894; assistant en- 
gineer with the Otis Engineering & Con- 
struction Co., on the survey, location, and 
construction of an incline railway up Pros- 
pect Mountain, Lake George, N. Y., and the 
installation of an electric-light plant in con- 



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junction with the same, 1894-95 ; assistant 
engineer on a survey for a trolley road from 
Catskill Mountain Station to Tannersville, 
N. Y., and also on a survey for a proposed 
incline road up Mount Tom, Holyoke, Mass., 
1895 ; assistant engineer with Thomas E. 
Brown, engaged upon designs of the ele- 
vators for the St. Paul Building, New York ; 
also on a design for the proposed bascule 
bridge over Newtown Creek, N. Y., and on 
various other work, 1896-97; and from 1897 
to date engineer for the Continuous Rail- 
Joint Company of America, Newark, N. J. 
He has also been secretary and treasurer of 
the Essex Co., Newark, N. J., from 1902 to 
date. ■ An abstract of his thesis, " Test of 
Otto Gas-Engines Operating an Electric- 
Light Plant at Danbury, Conn.," was pub- 
lished in the Sfcz'ciis Indicator, July, 1894, 
and in Power, August, 1894. Mr. Braine is 
a member of the American Society of Me- 
chanical Engineers, and a member of the 
Brooklyn Engineers' Club, and of the Essex 
Club, Newark, N. J. 

Brett, Harvey (M.E., '98), has been engaged, 
since graduation, as draughtsman with the 
Dutchess Tool Co., Matteawan, N. Y. ; with 
the Green Fuel Economizer Co., working 
at first in its machine shop and afterward 
on the road, erecting machines, etc. ; with 
the Sprague Electric Co., Bloomfield, N. J., 
being first in the testing department, after- 
ward in the construction department, and 
then employed as assistant electrical engi- 
neer; with the Eastman Kodak Co., Roches- 
ter, N. Y., as superintendent of metal work, 
1901-03; and with the Pneumatic Signal Co., 
Rochester, N. Y., 1903 to date, first having 
charge of the construction of its new plant, 
installing machinery and getting the work in 
operation, and now holding the position of 
assistant superintendent. Together with Mr. 
I. Fraley Baker he wrote a thesis, " Experi- 
mental Investigation of the Reliability of Pi- 
tot Tubes for Determining the Velocity ot 
Flow of Water in Pipes," published in the 
Stcz'cns Indicator for October, 1898. 

Brewer, Samuel Brainerd (M.E., '76), 
was born in Brooklyn, N. Y., January 27, 
1850. He is the son of Joseph I. and Har- 
riet Brewer, and his ancestors came to this 
country from Somersetshire, England, in 



1632, and located in Roxbury, Mass. The 
family moved to New York in the early part 
of the 19th century. He was engaged in va- 
rious capacities, 1876-79; in the Mechanical 
Laboratory of Stevens Institute, 1879-80; 
as draughtsman with Wilson Bros., archi- 
tects and civil engineers, Philadelphia, Pa., 
1880-81, and in a similar capacity with A. 
H. Emery, C.E., New York, 1882. In the 
fall of the latter year he began to devote 
most of his time to patent work, but owing 
to its confining nature he abandoned it in 
1895 for outdoor labor, and has again for 
several years been engaged as draughtsman 
at Elizabeth, N. J. 

Brinckerhoff, Alexander Gordon (M.E., 
'77), was born in Portsmouth, N. H., August 




A. G. Brinckerhoff 

23, 1856. In 1877 he was employed in the 
draughting-room of the Sixth Avenue Ele- 
vated Railroad, New York, at that time in 
process of construction. He then served 
with Wyllys H, Warner (the firm now be- 
ing Johnson & Morris) contractor for steanir 
heating and ventilating apparatus, New 
York, with which house he has remained to 
the present date. Since December, 1880, he 
has been superintendent of the works, and 
has had charge of the designing and super- 
intendence of erection of steam and water 
heating and ventilating plants for buildings 
of all kinds and sizes, located in various 



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parts of the country. Since 1886 he has 
been a member of the American Society of 
Civil Engineers, and is a member, also, of 
the Holland Society of New York and of the 
Delta Tau Delta fraternity. 

His father was Isaac Brinckerhoff, a de- 
scendant of Joris Dericksen Brinckerhoff, 
who came to this country from Holland in 
1638. On the side of his mother, Mary 
Gordon Brinckerhoff, he is third in de- 
scent from Gen. James Gordon, an officer in 
the American Revolutionary army. He 
married Minerva Ella Archer, September 27, 
1882. 

Brinckerhoff, Henry Morton (M.E., '90), 
was born at Fishkill-on-Hudson, N. Y., 
April 20, 1868. Being employed by the 
Thomson-Houston Electric Co., of Boston, 
he was put on construction work on the West 
End Street Railway of that city, serving in 
various capacities, commencing as lineman's 
helper, and occupying nearly every position 
in line-work, car-equipment, and power- 
house operation, 1890-91. He then became 
assistant engineer at the power house of 



ment for the General Electric Co., in Boston, 
and on the Coney Island and Brooklyn Rail- 




H. M. Brinckerhofp 



way, 1892; and assistant electrical engineer 
of the Intramural Railwav at the World's 




Roll-Lift Bridge 

Metropolitan West Side Elevated Railroad, Chicago 
H. M. Brinckcrhoji 



llie Utica Belt Line Street Railway Co., 
1891-92; foreman in charge of car equip- 



Columbian Exposition, Chicago, 1892-94. In 
this position he assisted in designing and in- 



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stalling the electrical equipment on this, the 
first third-rail elevated road of the country, 
and was joint patentee with the electrical 
engineer, Mr. C. H. Macloskie, of special 
apparatus designed for this system. During 
the operation of the road in the summer of 
1893, Mr. BrinckerhofT had charge of the car 



that road. He is patentee of various devices 
and machines in use on this railroad, and is 
still connected with the company, having 
successively filled the positions of superin- 
tendent of motive power and way, assistant 
general manager, and general manager, 
which post he now holds. He is a mem- 




Interior of 16,000 H.P. Power House, Metropolitan West Side 

Elevated Railroad Co., Chicago 

H. M. Brinckerhofl 



equipment, power house, and other electrical 
apparatus. He then (1894) took the posi- 
tion of electrical engineer on the Metropoli- 
tan West Side Elevated Railroad of Chi- 
cago, assuming charge of the designing and 
installation of the electrical equipment for 



ber of the American Institute of Electrical 
Engineers, the Western Society of Engi- 
neers, Illinois Club, of Chicago, and of 
the Technical and Chicago Automobile 
clubs. 

Mr. Brinckerhoff is the son of Peter Rem- 



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sen and Helen (Morton) Brinckerhoff. He way Co., New York city, 1902-03; employed 
married Florence Louise Fay, January 20, at the power house of the Interborough 
1903. Rapid Transit Co., 1903 ; with the Rapid 




Four-Track Combination Crossing, MirxKomi 
Elevated Railroad, Chicago 
H. M. Brinckerhoff 



ixAx West Side 



Brisley, Edward Belts (M.E., 'o. 
born in New York city, July 23, li 



was 
the 




E. B. Beisi.ey 

son of William Henry and Louise (Post) 
Brisley. He was with the Manhattan Rail- 



Transit Subway Construction Co., 1903-04; 
and is now at the Pittsburg office of the 
Crocker- Wheeler Co. He is a junior mem- 
ber of the American Society of Mechanical 
Engineers, and of the American Society of 
Civil Engineers; associate member of the 
American Institute of Electrical Engineers; 
and member of the New York Electrical 
Society, New York Athletic Club, and the 
Chi Psi fraternity. 

Bristol, Bennet B. (M.E, 93), was born 
in Naugatuck, Conn., May 3, 1868. He was 
employed at office work in Waterbury, 1884- 
88; became assistant to the Treasurer at the 
Stevens Institute, 1889-90; and in 1890 en- 
tered the Sophomore class with the class of 
1893. H^ has been secretary and general su- 
perintendent of factory of the Bristol Co., 
Waterbury, Conn., assisting in the improve- 
ment and development of recording-instru- 
ments for pressure, temperature, and elec- 
tricity, since 1894. In 1904 he became vice- 
president of the Bristol Co. 

Mr. Bristol is the son of Benjamin H. 



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and Pauline (Phelps) Bristol. He married 
Gertrude A. Rexford, June 28, 1898. They 




B. B. Bristol 

have three children, Mary Louise, Helen, 
and Rexford Allyn Bristol. 

Bristol, William H. (M.E., '84), Professor 
of Mathematics at Stevens Institute of Tech- 
nology. For biography sec page 265. 

Broadhurst, William G. (M.E., 02), has 
been engaged with the (Irecn Engineering- 
Co. , Chicago, 111. ; has studied hydraulics at 
Cornell University; and is nov assistant 
manager of the Atlantic Roofing Co., having 
charge of the company's factory at Perth 
Amboy, N. J. 

Broadmeadow, Walter J. (M.E., '85), was 
born in Hoboken, N. J., May 7, 1863. He 
was with J. Broadmeadow & Son, Red Bank, 
N. J., 1885-88; superintendent of the Sea- 
shore Electric Railway Co., Asbury Park, 
N. J., 1888-91 ; with Mr. W. P. Stevenson, 
New York, 1891-94; manager of the Sani- 
tary Plumbing Co., Red Bank, N. J., 1894- 
97; with the Brooklyn Rapid Transit Co., 
1897-99; ^"fl has been assistant super- 
intendent of the Canoe Ridge mines of 
the Clearfield Bituminous Coal Corporation, 
Rossiter, Indiana County, Pa., from 1899 to 
date. 

Mr. Broadmeadow is the son of James 



and Lavinia (Anderson) Broadmeadow, and 
is of English descent. Mr. Broadmeadow 
married Ella T. Smock, June 17, 1894. They 
have one child, Helen Broadmeadow. 

Brookfield, Augustus Baker (M.E., '93), 
was born in Newark, N. J., August 11, 
1872. He was with Baker & Co., gold and 
platinum refiners, assayers and smelters, 
Newark, N. J., 1893-1902, successively as 
salesman, in charge of the ordering, ship- 
ping, inspecting, weighing, and manufactur- 
ing departments, and as factory manager. 
While with this company he devised a 
scheme for shop costs, and succeeded in pro- 
ducing machine-made platinum ware of a 
high grade. He resigned, on account of ill- 
health, in January, 1902. He is at present 
engaged in the Angora goat-raising industry 
at Frerro, N. M. 

Mr. Brookfield is the son of J. V. and 
Elizabeth J. Brookfield, and a descendant of 
Capt. John Brookfield, of the Morris Rang- 
ers, and Barbara Heck, who founded the 
first Methodist Church in the United States. 
He married Caroline A. Schulz, June n, 
1903. 

Brooks, Morgan (M.E., '83), was born in 
Boston, Mass., March 12, 1861. He was 
educated at Roxbury Latin School, Boston, 
entering Brown University in 1877, with 
first (Hartshorn) prize for preparation in 
mathematics. He graduated in 1881 with 
the degree of Bachelor of Philosophy, and 
entered Stevens Institute in the fall of 1881. 
Lie spent 100 days in Europe with a college 
friend in 1886, and went abroad again in 
1889 with a party of American engineers 
visiting the Paris Exposition. He engaged 
with Hill, Clarke, & Co., Boston, selling and 
installing engines, especially gas-engines, in 
1883; was laboratory assistant with the 
American Bell Telephone Co., Boston, in- 
specting and testing all the hard-drawn cop- 
per wire made by three factories for the 
earliest long-distance lines ; also preparing 
reports on the practical utility of inventions 
offered to the company, 1884-86; and be- 
came engineer for the Boston office of the 
Electrical Accumulator Co., soliciting and 
installing plants in Boston and vicinity, 
1886-87. In the spring of 1887 he equipped 
a car experimentally with electric lighting. 



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for the Old Colony Railroad, one of the ear- 
liest examples of electric train-lighting in 
the United States. The car was run in con- 
nection with the Fall River steamers. From 
1887 to 1890 he was secretary-treasurer of 
the St. Paul (Minn.) Gas Light Co. On 
his way to St. Paul he stopped at Pittsburg 
to inspect the new system of alternating 
current ligkting of the Westinghouse Co., 
and recommended and superintended the in- 
stallation of the same system in the Gas 
Light Company's station in St. Paul, the 
work being completed in 1888. 

In October, 1890, he organized the Elec- 
trical Engineering Co. at St. Paul, installing 
many isolated and central-station lighting- 
plants throughout the Northwest. After the 
expiration of the telephone patents he also 
built many independent telephone exchanges. 
He is still president of this company, now 
actively engaged in the electrical supply 
business in Minneapolis. In 1898 he re- 
signed the management of the above com- 
pany to accept the position of Professor of 
Electrical Engineering at the University of 
Nebraska at Lincoln, and in 1901 resigned 
from Nebraska to fill a similar position with 
the University of Illinois at Urbana, his 
present occupation. 

Prof. Brooks has taken out patents for a 
telephone exchange (1895) and an automatic 
telephone system (1896). His graduating 
thesis, written in conjunction with his class- 
mate J. E. Steward, was published in 
abridged form in Van Nostrand's Engineer- 
ing Magazine, February, 1884, vmder the 
title '■ Some Experiments upon the Otto Gas 
Engine." This was noticed by several for- 
eign periodicals, and was translated by M. 
Gustave Richard, and included in his trea- 
tise, " Les Moteurs a Gaz " (Paris, 1885), 
pp. 143-156. He contributed " The Tele- 
phone and Its Operation " to Cassiefs Mag- 
azine, May, 1895. From 1895 to 1898 he 
delivered occasional lectures to the engi- 
neering students at the University of Min- 
nesota, at Minneapolis, upon " Telephones," 
" The Electrical Distribution of Standard 
Time," and " Finance and Engineering," — 
the last-named being published in_ the En- 
gineer's Year Book (Minneapolis), 1899. A 
talk upon " The Economic Limitations of 
Isolated Electric Plants " was given to the 
Northwestern Association of Architects. His 



inaugural address at the University of Ne- 
braska was entitled " Electricity and En- 
lightenment," and was delivered October 28, 
1898. " Interior Lighting " appeared in the 
Blue Print (the Nebraska University an- 
nual) in 1902; "Operating Conditions Gov- 
erning Direct-Current Machinery," in the 
Techno graph (Illinois engineering annual) 
in 1902 ; and " Electrical Progress in the 
United States in 1902," in the New Year's 
number (January, 1903) of the Western 
Electrician, Chicago. 

He is a life member of the American So- 
ciety of Mechanical Engineers ; and a mem- 
ber of the American Institute of Electrical 




Morgan Brooks 

Engineers ; the American Electrochemical 
Society; the Western Society of Engineers; 
the Society for the Promotion of Engineer- 
ing Education ; the American Association for 
the Advancement of Science ; the Franklin 
Institute ; the Delta Kappa Epsilon frater- 
nity of Brown University ; the Sigma Xi 
and Tau Beta Pi honorary scientific college 
societies. 

Prof. Brooks is the son of Francis A. and 
Frances (Butler) Brooks. His father, 
grandfather, and great-grandfather on the 
paternal side were all lawyers. His grand- 
father on the maternal side was preceptor 
of Lawrence Academy, Groton, Mass., for 
many years. Prof. Brooks married Frona 
Marie Brooks, daughter of B. F. Brooks, 



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a lawyer of Boston, April 24, 1888. They 
have seven children, Henry Morgan, Charles 
Franklin, Francis, Frederick Augustus, 
Roger, Edith, and Frona Marguerite 
Brooks. 

Brooks, Royal Deane (M.E., '00), was 
born in Brooklyn, N. Y., August, 1878. He 
was assistant steam expert at the Minnequa 
Works of the Colorado Fuel & Iron Co., 
Pueblo, Colo., I900-01 ; engineer in erect- 
ing department of the American Stoker Co., 
New York, 1901-03; and has been engaged 
in the sales department of the International 
Steam Pump Co., New York, from 1903 to 
date. He is a member of the Beta Theta 
Pi and Theta Nu Epsilon fraternities, of 
the Crescent and University Clubs, of Brook- 
lyn, and of the Minnequa Club, of Pueblo, 
Colo. 

Brown, Wilbur Vincent (B.S., 1880; 
Ph.D., 1888), was born in Warren County, 




W. V. Brown 

N. J., in i860. He received his early educa- 
tion at home, under his parents, and had but 
two years of grammar-school work and one 
year of high school before entering Stevens 
Institute. He was assistant in the Harvard 
College Astronomical Observatory, being 
assigned to work with Prof. William A. 
Rogers on the meridian circle, 1880-83; ^^- 
structor in Mathematics at the Indianapolis 



High School, 1883-85; was elected Assist- 
ant Professor of Mathematics and Assistant 
Director of the Observatory at De Pauw 
University, 1885-87; in 1887 was appointed 
Director of the Observatory and Associate 
Professor of Mathematics; in 1894 Profes- 
sor of Astronomy, and in 1897 Professor of 
Mathematics and Astronomy at the latter 
University, at the same time retaining his 
position as Director of the Observatory. 
Stevens Institute conferred the degree of 
Doctor of Philosophy upon Mr. Brown in 
1888. 

He is the author of the following articles : 
" The Cartesian Ovals and Related Curves 
as Sections of the Anchor Ring," published 
in the Annals of Mathematics, 1892; "The 
Collimation of a Reversible Transit," Ob- 
servatory, 1900 ; " Effect of Single and 
Double Lines upon Personal Error in Tran- 
sit Observations," Astronomical Journal, 
1901 ; and " A Proposed Classification of 
Weather Maps as an Aid in Weather Fore- 
casting," Monthly IVcafhcr Revieiv, 1901. 
He is a member of the Phi Beta Kappa fra- 
ternity. 

Prof. Brown is the son of Rev. Albert H. 
and Julia A. Brown. He married Addie 
Edson Fish in 1883, and they have one child, 
Irving Frederick Brown. 

Brown, Wiilard Y. (M.E., '95), was born 
in Newark, N. J-, June 6, 1873, and received 
his early education in the Newark public 
schools. He was assistant to the master 
mechanic of the Pencoyd Iron Works, Phil- 
adelphia, 1895-96, engaged in the erection 
and repair department of the rolling mill and 
steel mill ; assistant to the mechanical engi- 
neer of the King Bridge Co., Cleveland, O., 
1896-98, being occupied in the construction 
of hoisting-machinery for coal and ore, 
cranes, etc. ; with the Lorain Steel Co., 
Lorain, O., 1898-99; in charge of the Pitts- 
burg office of the Dominion Iron & Steel 
Co., Ltd., 1899-1900; engaged at the main 
office of the same company at Sydney, C. B., 
1900-01, as first assistant engineer; con- 
struction engineer for the Colorado Fuel & 
Iron Co., Pueblo, Colo., having charge of 
building a new Bessemer department and 
rail-mill, 1901-02; and superintendent of 
construction for the Garrett-Cromwell En- 
gineering Co., from 1902 to date, in charge 



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of the erection of a plant for the Colorado 
Fuel & Iron Co., consisting of open-hearth 




W. Y. Brown 

furnaces, blooming-mill, rod-mill, merchant- 
mill, and cotton-tie mill. 

Mr. Brown is the son of George and Mar- 
garet A. (Giffins) Brown, his ancestors 
being Quakers and early New England set- 
tlers. He married Grace V. Hessler, Feb- 
ruary 24, 1900, and they have one child, 
Doris Giffins Brown. 



1890-98, and superintendent of motive power 
of the same road from 1898 to date. He is 
a member of the American Society of Me- 
chanical Engineers ; of the American Rail- 
way Master Mechanics' Association ; the 
Master Car Builders' Association; and of 
the Delta Tau Delta fraternity. 

Mr. Bruck is the son of Charles Louis 
and Laure Elizabeth (de Grand Val) Bruck, 
of mixed German and French ancestry. On 
his mother's side he is descended from one 
of the families driven from San Domingo 
by the revolution of Toussaint I'Ouverture. 




Bruck, Henry Theobald (M.E., '78), was 
born in Hoboken, N. J., May 29, 1858. His 
early education was received at Martha In- 
stitute, Hoboken. He passed the entrance 
examination for the Class of 1876 of the 
Stevens Institute of Technology, but on ac- 
count of youth delayed entering for two 
years, which were passed as a special stu- 
dent at the University of the City of New 
York. 

He was draughtsman in the shops of the 
Delaware, Lackawanna, & Western Rail- 
road at Kingsland, N. J., 1878-83 ; in the 
same capacity with W. H. Bowers, New 
York, 1883-84, and with W. A. Lorenz, man- 
ufacturer of paper-bag machinery, Hartford, 
Conn., 1884-87; assistant to the general 
manager of the United States Torsion Bal- 
ance & Scale Co., New York, 1887-90; mas- 
ter of machinery of the Cumberland & Penn- 
sylvania Railroad, Mount Savage, Md., 



H. T. Bruck 

He married Minnie Orme Kenah, April 28, 
1896, and they have one child, Laure Eliza- 
beth Bruck. 

Bruckner, Rudolph Eglin (M.E., '96), 
was born in Hoboken, N. J., January 13, 
1875, the son of Charles H. and Josephine 
(Munson) Bruckner. His father was born 
in Basel, Switzerland, and came to America 
in 1866. The family of Bruckner-Eglin are 
related to Euler the mathematician. On his 
mother's side he is descended, through the 
Munson and Carhart families, from Thomas 
Carhart, who came to this country in 1683, 
from Cornwall, England, and, through the 
Munsons, from the Pell family who founded 
Pelham, Westchester County, N. Y., and 
from the Hunt family who settled Hunt's 
Point in 1667. Thomas Carhart was private 



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secretary to the English Governor, Thomas 
Dongan. The Mimsons founded Walling- 




R. E. Bruckner 

ford. Conn., and owned much of the land 
which at present is New Haven, Conn. The 
family has left many bequests to Yale Col- 
lege, one of $20,000 left by Israel Munson 
in 1844 being recorded as the largest re- 
ceived by the College up to that time. 
INIemljers of the family have served in the 
American army in the Indian, Revolutionary, 
and later wars. 

Upon graduating in 1896 Mr. Bruckner 
entered the employ of the Safety Car Heat- 
ing & Lighting Co., New York, as inspector 
of material, and in 1897 he became one of 
its assistant engineers. With this company 
he remained until June, 1898, when he 
passed the examination for assistant engineer 
with the relative rank of ensign in the United 
States Navy, and received a commission as 
such, serving until October of the same year, 
when he was honorably discharged and be- 
came one of the engineers of the Prindle 
Pump Co., New York. In 1899 he was en- 
gaged in the designing and erection of fur- 
naces and dryers for the treatment of waste 
products from canneries, etc. In 1901 he 
entered the service of the Curtis Steam Tur- 
bine Co., New York, and remains in that 
employment at the present time. 

His graduating thesis, which was prepared 
jointly with Messrs. Martin Shepard and 



John Schimmel, Jr., was published in the 
Stevens Indicator and in The Progressive 
Age. The subject of the thesis is " Calorific 
Power of Gases by the Junker Calorimeter." 
He is a member of Lafayette Lodge 64, Free 
and Accepted Masons, Order of the Found- 
ers and Patriots of America, and of the 
Theta Nu Epsilon fraternity. 

Bruen, Albert Electus (M.E., 93), was 
born in Brooklyn, N. Y., May 13, 1871, and 
was educated in private schools in that city. 
He was second rodman on the engineer corps 
at the Twenty-fifth Street Power House 
of the Lexington Ave. Cable Road, Metro- 
politan Traction Co., 1895 ! '^"d h^s been in- 
spector with the Underwriters" Bureau of 
the Middle and Southern States, New York, 
since 1895. He was a member of the New 
York Railroad Club down to 1898, and is a 
memlier of the National Fire Protection As- 
sociation, and of the Insurance Society of 
Philadelphia. 

Mr. Bruen is the son of Albert and Electa 




A. E. Bruen 

Bruen. He married Emma L. Wint, April 
10, 1901. 

Bruen, George Everett (M.E., '95), was 
born in Brooklyn, N. Y., August 11, 1873; 
the son of Albert and Electa Bruen. He 
was an instructor at the Stevens Institute 
during the Supplementary Term, 1895 : rod- 



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man with the Metropolitan Traction Co., 
New York, 1895; chemist in the department 
of tests of the Baldwin Locomotive Works, 
Philadelphia, 1895-96; superintendent of the 
Raritaii Electric Light & Power Co., Perth 
Amboy, N. J., 1896-99; in the engineering 
department of the Western Electric Co., New 
York, 1899 ; and electrical inspector for the 
National Board of Fire Underwriters, New 
York, 1899 to date. His graduating thesis, 
prepared jointly with Messrs. Percy Allan 
and Frederick K. Vreeland, on " Experi- 
mental Determination of the Lifluence of 
Back Pressure on the Economy of a Sur- 
face-Condensing Engine with Independent 



the ' service of the Midvale Steel Works, 
Philadelphia, Pa. He was Listructor of the 




G. E. Bruen 

Vacuum Pump," was published in the Ste- 
z'Ciis Indicator, XHI, 136. 

Brune, Percy J. (M.E., 97), was engaged 
by the Nicaragua Canal Commission (one 
of 65 successful candidates out of an appli- 
cation list of nearly 500) in work at Nic- 
aragua, and in 1899 became engineer on a 
sugar plantation at Central Occitania, Cuba. 
He is now with the United Railways of 
Havana, Cuba. 

Buckley, Thomas John (M.E., 98), was 
born. in Tenafly, N. J., November 30, 1873. 
He was engaged in surveying work, 1898; 
with the Edison Electric Co., New York, 
1898-99; and from 1899 to date has been in 




T. J. Buckley 

night class in Applied Electricity at Drexel 
Institute, 1899-1900, and is a member of the 
Engineers' Club of Philadelphia, of the En- 
glewood Field, Tenafly Field, and Tulpo- 
hocken Tennis clubs, and of the Theta Xi 
fraternity. From 1898 to 1900 he was a 
member of the New York Electrical Society. 
Mr. Buckley is the son of Charles P. and 
Ellen A. Buckley. He married Cornelia 
Lewis, January 30, 1901, and they have one 
child, Elizabeth Buckley. 

Buerck, J. O. (M.E., '76), was employed 
in lighthouse work at New London, Conn., 
1876; and with the Scientific Publishing Co., 
New York, 1878-79. From the latter year 
up to the date of his death, which occurred 
in 1895, there is no record of his occupa- 
tions. 

Buerger, Charles (M.E., '00), received 
the degree of Bachelor of Science from the 
College of the City of New York in 1898 and 
has been engaged with the Atlantic Refining 
Co., Philadelphia, Pa., 1900 to date. His 
graduating thesis, written in conjunction 
with Mr. C. K. Brackett, on the " Rites Shaft 
Governor," was published in the Stevens 
Institute Indicator, January, 1901. He is a 
member of the Phi Beta Kappa fraternity. 



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Buffet, E. P., Jr. (M.E., '94), was con- 
nected with the American Manufacturer and 
Iron World, Pittsburg, Pa., during part of 
the year 1895, and afterward became finan- 
cial editor of the Pittsburg Commercial 
Gazette. During the latter part of 1895 he 
became associated with the American Ma- 
chinist, and ever since that time he has 
maintained a connection with that paper 
in various capacities. He graduated in June, 
1897, from the New York Law School, 
with the degree of Bachelor of Laws, cum 
laudc. 

Contemporaneously with his connection 
with the American Machinist, he was en- 
gaged in other work. Besides studying law 
he was for a while an editorial writer for 
Current Literature, and was also associated 
with Heating and Ventilation. In his writ- 
ings he has made a specialty of the commer- 
cial side of engineering. An editorial on 
German-American machinery trade relations, 
written during the latter part of 1900, was 
used as the basis of argument for a lengthy 
controversial circular drawn up by a com- 
mittee of the Association of German Ma- 
chine Tool Manufacturers, and syndicated 
among the leading engineering papers of 
Germany, and it was also translated and an- 
swered in the daily press. He has given 
particular attention to export trade, and has 
translated matter from French and German 
periodicals. 

He has published in book form a " Digest 
of Elementary Law '" for the use of students, 
also a slight work of fiction. In 1901 and 
1902 he published in the columns of the 
American Machinist a series of articles on 
the " Mechanical Antiquities of America," 
and in 1903-04 he was engaged in bringing 
out another series on the early manufacture 
of iron. He is a regular contributor, to the 
last-named paper, of notes on legal topics. 
His graduating thesis, " On the Magnetic 
Properties of Nickel Steel," was published in 
the American Manufacturer and in the Stev- 
ens Indicator, XIII, 27. Within two years 
past, articles from his pen have appeared in 
the New England Magazine, Education, and 
the Journal of Geography. Of late he has 
given much time to independent historical 
research and has recently been called upon to 
prepare a law book of considerable magni- 
tude. 



Bumsted, E. Bradford (M.E., '96), was 
employed in the repair shops of the North 
Jersey Street Railway Co., Newark, N. J., 
1896; in the testing laboratory of the Print- 
ing Telegraph News Co., New York, which 
operates the general news tickers in New 
York and elsewhere, 1896-97; with Isaac 
A. Hopper, general contractor. New York, 
as assistant engineer, and later as contrac- 




TiPPLE Inclined Conveyor — Moves with Steam 

Shovel on Track Parallel to Canal 

E. B. Bumsted 

tor's engineer in charge of the construction 
of the Third Avenue bridge across the Har- 
lem River, 1897-98, during which period he 
made up contractor's estimates and progress 
drawings of the work, and gave lines and 
levels, etc. The cost of this structure was 
about $2,000,000. It included a 300-foot 
swing span, having a roadway 81 feet in 
width ; three river masonry pieces on pneu- 
matic caissons, steel and masonry approaches 
aggregating 2,500 feet in length, general 
street improvement of adjoining neighbor- 




PowER House or St. Lawrence Power Co. Con- 
crete Monolith. Steel Truss Roof. Cement 
Beton Exterior Finish 
E. B. Bumsted 

hood, overhead-trolley track construction, 
etc. In 1898-99 he was with G. H. Selleck 
& Co., electrical contractors. New York, esti- 
mating on the electrical equipment of build- 
ings, etc. ; and with the T. A. Gillespie Co., 



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general contractors, 1 899-1902. Mr. Bum- 
sted was temporarily located at Massena, St. 
Lawrence County, N. Y., on the construction 
of the electrical power plant for the St. Law- 
rence Power Company, costing about $4,- 
500,000, and comprising a canal 3 miles long, 




Power House in Course of Construciion. 

Showing Concrete Partly in Place. 

Concrete Forms. Three Sets of 

Draught Tubes in Place 

E. B. Bumsted 

200 feet wide, and 18 feet deep, necessitating 
the excavation of some 8,000,000 cubic yards 
of material ; also of a power house for the 
development of 35,000 horse-power. He was 
first employed in the capacity of engineer in 
charge of the power-house construction, later 
having personal charge as engineer and 
superintendent of some 600 men. As such 
he designed and erected the rock-crushing 
and concrete-mixing plant, which mixed in 
the course of erection some 60,000 cubic 
yards of concrete ; designed and erected three 
tipple inclined conveyors for taking the earth 
away from the steam shovels on the canal ; 
erected a pontoon bridge 500 feet in length 
to carry ten-ton wagon loads and for five 
years' service ; also changed an orange-peel 
dipper, vacuum suction type of dredge, to 
a centrifugal pump dredge of 2,500 cubic 
yards capacity. During this last period of 
employment he also designed and erected 
the rock-crushing and concrete-mixing plant 
used in the construction of the filter plant for 
the -East Jersey Water Co. at Little Falls, 
N. J. He was resident manager of the St. 
Lawrence River Power Co. at Massena, 
N. Y., 1902-04 ; and is now general manager 



of the same company in New York city. He 
has also been manager of the St. Lawrence 
Water Co., the St. Lawrence Telephone Co., 
and the Massena Electric Light & Power Co. 
since January, 1903. He was recently elected 
secretary and treasurer of the above com- 
panies. He is a member of the New York 
Electrical Society, and a junior member of 
the American Society of Civil Engineers. 

Mr. Bumsted married Clara Louise War- 
ren, April 27, 1904. 

Burchard, Anson Wood (M.E., '85), was 
born in Hoosick Falls, Mass., April 21, 1865; 
the son of Walter Howard and Julia (Coo- 
ley) Burchard. He was mechanical engi- 
neer with the J. M. Ives Co., Danbury, 
Conn., 1885-92, being engaged in designing 
and erecting motive-power plants, elec- 
tric stations, fire-protection of mill proper- 
ties, and heating and ventilating apparatus ; 
manager and engineer of the T. & B. Tool 
Co., Danbury, Conn., 1892-98, in which 
capacity he designed and constructed origi- 
nal and improved machinery for manufac- 
ture of twist drills and machinists' tools. 
He was also engaged in general engineering 
work to some extent, having been employed 
by various corporations and municipalities. 




including an appointment as consulting en- 
gineer to special counsel in charge of the 
proceedings connected with the extension of 



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the water supply for the city of New York 
in the Croton watershed. During 1901-03 
he was vice-president of the Greene Con- 
solidated Copper Co., New York. He is now 
comptroller of the General Electric Co., 
Schenectady, N. Y. He is a member of the 
American Society of Mechanical Engineers; 
of the Engineers' Club, New York; the 
Franklin Institute of Philadelphia; and the 
University Club, New York. He is also an 
associate member of the American Society 
of Civil Engineers. An article by Mr. 
Burchard on " A Design for a Hot-Air 
Heating- Apparatus " appeared in the Ste- 
z'Ciis Indicator, VH, 54. 

Burhorn, Edwin (M.E., '85), was born in 
New York, June 21, 1866; the son of August 
and Henrietta W. Bickel Burhorn. Both 
parents were born in Germany and came to 
the United States about 1849, their parents 
being revolutionary exiles. He was educated 
in the public schools of Hoboken, N. J., 
graduating from Hoboken High School, and 
receiving the Stevens scholarship. He 
served as draughtsman with Henry Warden, 
Germantown Junction, Philadelphia, Pa., 
manufacturer of boilers and special wrought- 
iron work, etc., 1885 ; and as assistant to the 
general manager of the Franklin Sugar Re- 



ing boilers, engines, evaporating apparatus, 
etc., designed and installed a special system 





finery, Philadelphia, 1885. While in the 
latter position he took entire charge of test- 



Cooi.iNG-TowER, Baltimore Abattoir Co., 
Baltimore, Md. 
Edwin Burhorn 

of draining bag filters by vacuum process, 
filling char filters by automatic spreading- 
machines, etc. He became interested with 
Mr. B. H. Coffey, '85, in the Cycle Water 
Filter, having obtained a patent on a special 
controlling valve mechanism, and joined 
with Mr. Coffey at the shops of Henry War- 
den, improving the filter and placing it suc- 
cessfully on the market. He was with the 
Link-Belt Engineering Co., of Philadel- 
phia and New York, 1890-93, planning 
many systems of handling material by ma- 
chinery of special design, and afterward 
took entire charge of the designing depart- 
ment of the New York office of the same 
company. 

In 1893 he started in business as an en- 
gineer and contractor under the firm name oi 
Warren & Burhorn, changed the following 
year to Burhorn & Granger, of New York, 
the firm acting as manufacturers" agents in 
addition to professional work. This partner- 



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ship lasted for eight years, during which 
time it installed many complete plants for 
power, heat, and electric light; made several 
improvements in the Woodbury high-speed 
automatic engine, built by the Stearns Man- 
ufacturing Co., and placed the engine in 
successful operation in many places, notably 
in the " World " Building, New York. In 
1901 the firm of Burhorn & Granger was 
dissolved, Mr. Burhorn opening an office for 
himself in New York, as engineer and con- 
tractor, which business he is now carrying 
on. Some of the installations made under 
Mr. Burhorn's supervision are as follows : 
Boiler plant at the rope-walks of the Bos- 
ton Navy Yard (750 horse-power) ; electri- 
cal transmission plant for the factory of 
John Mehl & Co., Jersey City Heights ; a 
motor-driven swing-bridge over the Passaic 
River, at Fourth Avenue, Newark, N. J. ; 
char-drying equipment and incinerator for 
sugar-baskets at the Arbuckle sugar-refinery, 
Brooklyn, N. Y., and an Acme water-cool- 
ing tower at Baltimore, Md. (depicted in 
the accompanying illustration, and showing 
a class of work of which Mr. Burhorn is 
making a specialty, — namely, recooling water 
from condensers in steam plants, or, in ice 
plants, for recooling water from ammonia 
condensers). He is a member of the Frank- 
lin Institute of Philadelphia. 

Burke, E. J. (M.E., '94), was assistant 
suiDerintendent of the motor department, of 
the Brooklyn Heights Railroad Co., Brooklyn, 
N. Y., until 1901 ; and then with the United 
Gas Improvement Co., Philadelphia, 190 1 to 
date. His thesis, prepared jointly with St. 
George M. Anderson, on a " Test of a 240- 
horse-power Babcock & Wilcox Boiler with 
Three Different Coals, for the Determination 
of Economy," was published in the October, 
1895, issue of the Stczrns Indicator. 

Burke, Georgfe Herman Babcock (M.E., 
99). born in Flatbush, L. I., August 18, 
1878; son of William L. and Harriet Eu- 
genia (Babcock) Burke, is a descendant of 
the Norman family De Burg. His mother 
is from a New England line of the English 
famiFy of Babcock. He has been engaged in 
engineering work in the shops and draught- 
ing room of the Rand Drill Co., manufac- 
turers of rock drills, pneumatic tools, and 



air and gas compressors, at the works of 
the company at North Tarry town, N. Y., 
from 1899 to date. 




Burnet, Edgar Emmell (M.E., '96), was 
born in Madison, N. J., July 14, 1874; the 
son of Benjamin Warren and Caroline Ged- 
dis (Emmell) Burnet. He is descended 
from Thomas, brother of Bishop Burnet, of 
England, whose son landed at Lynn, Mass., 
and afterward moved to Southampton, N. Y., 
in 1734. Eight generations of the fam- 
ily have lived at Madison, N. J. Mr. Burnet 
was employed in the repair shops of the 
Consolidated Traction Co., New Jersey, 
1896-97; with E. K. Brown, civil engineer 
and surveyor, Madison, N. J., 1897; with the 
Pennsylvania Iron Works Co., Philadelphia, 
being for a time engaged in the erection of 
several 1,500 horse-power engines of the 
Corliss type for the Metropolitan Street Rail- 
way Co., at the 146th Street and the 25th 
Street power stations. New York, 1897-98. 
On May 17, 1898, he enlisted with the New- 
Jersey Naval Reserve, and served through 
the war with Spain on board the auxiliary 
cruisei: " Badger," with the rating of water- 
tender. He was discharged from the service 
October 8, 1898, and a few days later re- 
ceived the position of draughtsman with the 
American Brass Works, Newburgh, N. Y. 
The following March he started work as 
draughtsman with the Davis Calyx Drill 



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Co., and was located at the shops of that 
company, at Tarrytown, in the capacity of 
superintendent, until 1902; when he entered 




E. E. Burnet 

the service of Ford, Bacon, & Davis, en- 
gineers, New York, as draughtsman. He 
now holds a similar position with J. G. 
White & Co., Inc., engineers and contractors, 
New York. He is a member of the order of 
Free and Accepted Masons. 

Bush, Samuel Prescott (M.E., '84), was 
born in Orange, N. J., October 4, 1863. After 
graduation he entered the employment of 
the Pennsylvania Lines West of Pittsburg, 
South-West System, starting in the capacity 
of special apprentice at the Logansport shop, 
where he served two years, doing a general 
line of work in the locomotive department. 
For two months of each of the years 1885 
and 1886 he was engaged, in conjunction 
with a member of the Class of '83, in making 
a series of coal tests for determining the rel- 
ative values of coals for locomotive purposes 
that were within practical reach of the rail- 
road company. The result of this work 
was exceedingly satisfactory and valuable 
to the company, enabling it to determine 
what were the most desirable and economi- 
cal coals for use at various points. In the 
early part of 1887 he was detailed to some 
work of a special nature, and shortly after- 
ward went into the iron foundry of the 



company at Columbus, Ohio, where he 
worked until the end of the year. In 1888 
he was transferred to the motive-power 
draughting-room, and was from time to time 
detailed on special work to aid the assist- 
ant to the superintendent of motive power. 
During the year 1889 his work in the 
draughting-room ceased, and he was engaged 
in special work until in the latter part of the 
year, when he was made assistant engineer, 
or assistant to the superintendent *of motive 
power, which position he occupied until the 
latter part of 1890, at which time, on ac- 
count of the death of the master-mechanic 
of the Dennison, O., shops, he was tempora- 
rily detailed to perform the duties of that 
position ; remaining at Dennison as acting 
master-mechanic of the Pittsburg Division 
until January i, 1891, at which time he was 
appointed master-mechanic of the company's 
general shops at Columbus, O. He re- 
mained in this position until March, 1893, 
when he was made acting superintendent of 
motive power, as well as retaining the posi- 
tion of master-mechanic of the Columbus 
shops, the superintendent of motive power 
having been detailed to special work in con- 
nection with the World's Fair at Chicago. In 
January, 1894, he was appointed superintend- 




S. P. Bush 

ent of motive power, which position he held 
up to January i, 1900. His duties herein 
comprised the maintenance of the locomo- 



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tive and car equipment, and the supervision 
of the operation of the four shops, which 
employed in the aggregate 3,100 men. The 
work was largely and necessarily executive, 
its principal feature being that of economi- 
cal maintenance and operation, and involv- 
ing a careful study of locomotive and car 
construction as well as the care of the equip- 
ment after being put into service, and much 
was done toward improving construction. 
While the work involved continuous inven- 
tion, its character was not such as to be 
specially significant individually, but, taken 
collectively, accomplished improvement of 
performance and reduction of cost of main- 
tenance. 

On January i, 1900, Mr. Bush accepted 
the position of superintendent of motive 
power of the Chicago, Milwaukee, & St. 
Paul Railroad, which position he resigned 
June I, 1901, to become second vice-presi- 
dent and general manager of the Buckeye 
Malleable Iron & Coupler Co., manufacturers 
of malleable iron castings and the " Little 
Giant " buckeye coupler, at Columbus, O., 
where he is now situated. Mr. Bush was- 
active in his railroad work, and contributed 
largely to the advancement of railroad en- 
gineering through his numerous writings 
and addresses before the meetings of the 
several societies to which he belonged, and, 
through his service on many committees de- 
tailed by these organizations, to the devel- 
opment and perfection of special lines of 
work , and mechanism. His most promi- 
nent labor in this line was his service as 
chairman of the Committee on Laboratory 
Tests of Brake Shoes, appointed by the 
Master Car Builders' Association. This 
committee carried on its work for five years, 
conducting a long series of tests, obtaining 
some very valuable information, and design- 
ing and building an apparatus for determin- 
ing the coefficient of friction of brake shoes 
for railway service. Mr. Bush also served 
as a member of the Arbitration Committee 
of the Master Car Builders' Association, 
and as a member of its Executive Committee 
from 1898 to 1901. He is a member of the 
Delta Tau Delta fraternity. 

Mr.- Bush is the son of James Smith and 
Harriet Eleanor Bush, his ancestors being 
of Puritan and Huguenot stock. He married 
Flora Sheldon, June 27, 1894. Five chil- 



dren, Prescott Sheldon, Robert Sheldon, 
Mary Eleanor, Margaret Livingston, and 
James Smith Bush, are the fruit of their 
union. 

Bushnell, Douglas Stewart (M.E., '96), 
was born in New York city, October 12, 
1873. He was assistant manager at the Snow 
Steam Pump Works, New York, 1896-99, 
and spent part of 1899-1900 travelling in 
Europe for the benefit of his health, after 
undergoing a severe operation which com- 
pelled him to give up business. He became 
assistant engineer in the engineering de- 
partment of the Standard Oil Co., serving 
from 1900 to 1903. From the latter year to 
date he has been assistant general superin- 
tendent of the National Transit Co., Trunk 
Lines Division, New York. He is a member 




D. S. BUSHNF.LI. 

of the Washington Association of New Jer- 
sey, the Calumet, Morristown, and Morris 
County Golf clubs, and of the Tau Beta Pi 
fraternity. 

Mr. Bushnell is the son of Robert Gray 
and Ella J. (Stewart) Bushnell. His Eng- 
lish ancestors, landing in Connecticut in 
1629, moved to Pittsburg, Pa., in the early 
part of the nineteenth century, and his par- 
ents lived in that city until a few years be- 
fore his birth, when they moved to New 
York. He married Helen Maude Applegate, 
daughter of Rev. Octavius Applegate, D.D., 



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October 5, 1901, at Newburgh-on-Hudson. 
They have one daughter, Eleanor Ray Bush- 
nell. 

Butler, Pierce (M.E., '82), was born in 
Franklin County, Ky., September 6, 1858. 




Pierce Butler 

He was draughtsman with the Delaware, 
Lackawanna, & Western Railroad, 1883 ; 
with the Brooks Locomotive Works, Dun- 
kirk, N. Y., 1884; in the employ of the Pull- 
man Car Co., Pullman, 111., 1885; in the me- 
chanical department of the Union Pacific R. 
R. Co., 1886; chief designer of the Ohio 
Falls Car Co., Jeffersonville, Ind., 1887-90; 
chief draughtsman in the mechanical depart- 
ment of the Louisville & Nashville Railroad 
Co., Louisville, Ky., 1890-95 ; and has been 
a consulting" mechanical engineer at Louis- 
ville from 1895 to date, hi 1894 he visited 
Europe for the purpose of inspecting foreign 
shops. He presented a paper on " Standard- 
izing American Railway Cars " to the Engi- 
neers' and Architects' Club, of Louisville, 
Ky., of which club he is a member and was 
secretary for 1897. He is a member of the 
Engineering Association of the South, and 
of the Beta Theta Pi fraternity. 

Mr. Butler is the son of John Russell and 
Jane Short Butler. He is descended from 
Thomas Butler, who had five sons, all com- 
missioned officers in the Revolutionary Army 
and all members of the Society of the Cin- 



cinnati. His great-grandfather was first ad- 
jutant-general of Kentucky, and his grand- 
father was, for several terms, a member of 
the Kentucky legislature. His father was a 
physician and was on the staff of his uncle, 
General William O. Butler, in the Mexican 
War, and also a colonel in the Confederate 
Army. Mr. Butler married Roberta Boyle, 
March 22, 1888. 

Butterfield, Thomas (M.E., '95), entered 
the Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute in 1895, 
and graduated from that institution as Civil 
Engineer in 1897. He was in the service 
of the Spartan Plaster & Cement Co., Perth 
Amboy, N. J., 1897; with the New Jersey 
Portland Cement Co., 1897-98; draughts- 
man in the Otto Gas-Engine Works, Phila- 
delphia, 1898-1900; with the Gasmotoren 
Fabrik Deutz, Koln-Deutz, Germany, 1900; 
and in the engineering department of the Ot- 
to Gas-Engine Works, Philadelphia, to date. 

Butterworth, Samuel Fowler (M.E., '96), 
was born in Morristown, N. J., July 8, 1874; 
the son of Theron H. and Selina S. Butter- 
worth. He was employed in the meter de- 
partment of the Edison Electric Illuminating 
Co., Duane Street Station, New York, 1898- 
1899; with the Gas & Electric Co., of Ber- 




UTTERWOETH 



gen County, N. J., as assistant chief engi- 
neer of the gas department, 1899-1900; in 



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the office of Public Buildings and Grounds, 
War Department, Washington, D. C, 1900- 
01 ; with the Post & McCord branch of the 
American Bridge Co., Brooklyn, N. Y., 
1901 ; in the mechanical department of the 
Waldorf-Astoria Hotel, New York, 1901- 
02 ; and with the Traction Elevator Co., 
New York, from 1902 to date. 

Buvinger, William Sherman (M.E., '91), 
was born in Pittsburg, Pa., July 22, 1866; 
the son of Charles W. and Emma P. Buvin- 
ger. His family is of German origin, and 
its members have had a tendency toward pro- 
fessional callings. He served in the engi- 
neering department of the Pittsburg Iron 
& Steel Engineering Co., 1891-92, being at 
first engaged in preparing plans and esti- 
mates for the construction of iron- and steel- 
working machinery^ and later placed in 
charge as supervising engineer of erection 
of the new steel-plate mill for the Carbon 
Steel Co., at Pittsburg, Pa., the most im- 
portant of several contracts then held by the 
Iron & Steel Engineering Co. He then be- 
came chief draughtsman with Thomas Car- 
lin's Sons, engine-builders, Allegheny, Pa., 
1893-95, but during the latter year failing 
health necessitated a change of climate for 
recuperation. On resuming work he en- 
tered the engineering department of the 
Carnegie Steel Co., at their works at Bes- 
semer, Pa., as mechanical engineer. Here 
he was closely identified with the work of 
providing the blast furnaces of the Edgar 
Thomson Steel Works with automatic charg- 
ing-machinery, which later has proved so 
economical in use and has permitted excep- 
tional records in tonnage output. Evidence 
of impaired health induced Mr. Buvinger to 
give up this work for an extended season of 
travel in Europe, from which he returned 
in the fall of 1899 greatly benefited by his 
tour of France, Switzerland, Germany, and 
England. At the present time he is employed 
as mechanical engineer in a corps engaged 
in the construction of new blast furnaces 
and equipment at the Eliza furnaces, of the 
Jones & Laughlin Steel Co., Pittsburg, Pa. 
He i^ a member of the Delta Tau Delta fra- 
ternity. 

Calisch, Julius C. (M.E., '87), was born 
in New York city, October 18, 1867 ; the 



son of Charles H. and Servillia Calisch, both 
born in Denmark. After a very short expe- 
rience in the draughting-room of the Edison 
Central Station, construction department. 




J. C. Calisch 

New York, he entered the service of the 
Electrical Accumulator Co., New York, 
whose laboratory and works were located in 
Newark, N. J. He began in the laboratory, 
and later went out on installation and gen- 
eral construction work; finally locating in 
Detroit as superintendent of one of the first 
central-station storage-battery systems. This 
plant was somewhat unique in that it con- 
sisted of a central power plant for charging 
a number of storage-battery sub-stations, 
which were connected up in series on the 
charging side, discharging in multiple ; fur- 
nishing current for lighting, etc., to subscrib- 
ers in the neighborhood. After two years' 
service with the Electrical Accumulator Co., 
he entered the employ of the Edison United 
Manufacturing Co. in the capacity of fore- 
man of construction, being placed in charge 
of various lighting installations, — isolated, 
central station, and marine plants. After 
serving in this capacity for about three years, 
he was detailed on general commercial and 
engineering work. During this period the 
Edison United Manufacturing Co. changed 
names several times, until in the spring of 
1892 the General Electric Co. was organized. 
In August of that year he was detailed to 



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the Pittsburg office, where his duties com- 
prised both engineering and commercial 
work; and eventually in 1895 he was placed 
in charge of the Pittsburg office, where he re- 
mained until 1898, being then transferred 
and placed in charge of the Buffalo office, 
where he is at present located. Mr. Calisch's 
thesis, written in conjunction with Mr. B. F. 
Hart, Jr., on " Chrome-Steel History and 
Chemical Analysis," was printed in the Stev- 
ens Indicator, IX, 49, and quoted in Iron Age 
and several other journals. He is an asso- 
ciate member' of the American Society of 
Electrical Engineers ; a member of the Buf- 
falo, Ellicott, University, Park, and Niagara 
clubs, and of the Buffalo Chamber of Com- 
merce ; and is a thirty-second degree Mason. 

Cameron, Barton H. (M.E., 94), was an 
apprentice with the Norfolk & Western 
Railroad, Radford, Va., 1895-98; draughts- 
man with the Richmond Locomotive Works, 
Richmond, Va., 1898-99; and has been gen- 
eral manager and treasurer of the Cameron- 
Tennant Machine Co., Richmond, Va., from 
1899 to date. He is a member of the Ameri- 
can Society of Mechanical Engineers. 

Campbell, Donald (M.E., '97), was born 
in Newport, R. I. ; the son of Col. John 




Donald Campbell 

Campbell, U.S.A., and Mary (Price) Camp- 
bell. After graduation, and a season with 



the firm of W. D. Forbes & Co., Hoboken, 
N. J., he took the course at the New York 
Law School, graduating with the degree of 
Bachelor of Laws in 1899. In 1898 he en- 
tered the offices of Dickerson, Brown, Rae- 
gener, & Binney, New York, and practised 
there as patent attorney and counsellor-at- 
law until 1904, when he established an office 
of his own at Boston, Mass. He is a mem- 
ber of the Delta Tau Delta fraternity and of 
the New York Athletic Club. 

Campbell, Edward (M.E., '96), was born 
in Liverpool, England, September 15, 1874; 
the son of George and Rosalie H. Campbell. 
He served in the shops of the Southern Rail- 
way Co., Alexandria, Va., 1896-98; in the 
same company's draughting-room, Washing- 
ton, D. C, 1898-1900; and with the Germa- 
nia Electric Lamp Co., Harrison, N. J., 1901- 
03 ; since which period to date he has been 
its secretary and treasurer. He is an as- 
sociate member of the American Institute 
of Electrical Engineers, and a member of 
the Alpha Xi chapter of the Chi Psi fra- 
ternity. 

Campbell, Gordon (M.E., '88), acted as 
Assistant Instructor in Experimental Me- 
chanics at Stevens Institute during the Sup- 
plementary Term, 1888; was draughtsman 
in the master-mechanic's office, Colorado Di- 
vision of the Union Pacific Railroad, and 
later in charge of the draughting of that 
office, 1888-91 ; superintendent of the Colfax 
Avenue Electric Railway, Denver, Colo., 
1891-93; assistant to the general Western 
sales agent of the Illinois Steel Co., at their 
office in Denver, Colo., 1893; purchasing 
agent of the Consolidated Traction Co., of 
New Jersey, 1893-97; mechanical engineer 
in charge of maintenance of rolling-stock, 
and also purchasing agent of the same com- 
pany, 1897-1900; and has since been general 
superintendent of the Union Railroad Co., 
Providence, R. L, and master-mechanic of 
lines controlled by the Washington Traction 
& Electric Co., Washington, D. C. He is 
a junior member of the American Society 
of Mechanical Engineers. 

Campbell, Grant (M.E. '99), was born in 
Newport, Ky., February 19, 1879; son of 
Col. John Campbell, U.S.A., and Mary 



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(Price) Campbell. He was Assistant In- 
structor at Stevens Institute during the 




Grant Campbell 

Supplementary Term of 1899; was next em- 
ployed in the draughting-room of the firm 
of Westinghouse, Church, Kerr, & Co., New 
York, and in a few months on installation 
of work for the company, in Covington, Va., 
for the West Virginia Pulp and Paper Co. 
From August, 1900, his work was entirely 
in the stoker department, with headquarters 
at New York, until April, 1902, when he 
'was transferred to the new Manchester 
(England) works of the British Westing- 
house Electric & Manufacturing Co., Ltd., 
where he continued in the same line of 
work. From this he was transferred by the 
company to Birkenhead (England), where, 
from August, 1902, until April, 1903, he was 
in charge of stoker and general power-house 
work in connection with the electrification 
of the Mersey Tunnel. On April 15 of the 
latter year he was again transferred to Bath 
(England), being placed in charge of the 
construction of a power station and car 
barns for the Bath Electric Tramways Co., 
Ltd. He is now located in the New York 
offices of Westinghouse, Church, Kerr, & Co. 
He is a member of the Delta Tau Delta 
fraternity. 



Incandescent Light Co., Gloucester, N. J., 
and was assistant engineer at the company's 
Philadelphia office in 1888. Later he was 
engaged in several departments of the Bald- 
win Locomotive Works, during which period 
he designed new oil furnaces and burners 
which reduced the oil bill about one half, 
and increased the life of the furnace from 
about three days to a month. He also con- 
structed a two-foot sheet-steel pipe-Hne, 250 
feet long, across the yards at a height of 45 
feet. As scaffolding could not be used, an 
original plan of stringing a cable and draw- 
ing the pipe across, length by length, proved 
successful. After this he was placed in 
charge of the spring contract ; but after five 
months his health began to show the effect 
of the heat, so he was put in charge of one 
of the shops as night foreman. Since then 
he has filled an engagement with the firm of 
VV. D. Forbes & Co., representing interests 
of Col. E. A. Stevens ; has conducted a busi- 
ness as consulting engineer and manufac- 
turers' agent, together with some personal 
interests; and has been associated with the 
Lightning Wage-Calculator Co., the Ameri- 
can Impulse-Wheel Co., and with the firm 
of Halsey & Hudnut, all of New York. 

Carey, Paul C. (M.E., '01), was born in 
Newark, N. J., January 17, 1879. Since 




Campbell, N. St. G. (M.E., '88), on grad- 
uation, entered the works of the Welsbach 



graduation he has been employed in the de- 
partment of tests of the General Electric Co., 



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Schenectady, N. Y., 1901-02; and with the 
United Electric Co. of New Jersey, Newark, 
N. J., from 1902 to 1904, in charge of the 
consumers' end of their power business 
throughout the Newark division. In the lat- 
ter year he became a member of the firm of 
Runyon & Carey, mechanical and electrical 
engineers, Newark, N. J. He is a member 
of the Tau Beta Pi fraternity. 

Carll, Benjamin Wainbirg (M.E., 91), 
was born in Northport, L. I., November 28, 
1868. He was the New York representative 
of the Buffalo Steam Pump Co., 1891-92; 
inspector for the Lancashire Insurance Co., 
1892-94; and held a like position in the 
tannery department of the German Ameri- 
can Insurance Co., 1894-95. He then served 
with the Chrome Steel Works Co., of Brook- 
lyn, N. Y., introducing their mining-steel 
into Mexico, South America, South Africa, 
Australia, New Zealand, etc., 1896-99; and 
from 1899 to date has been engineer and as- 
sistant manager of the General Power Co., 
of Brooklyn, manufacturers of kerosene en- 
gines. 

Mr. Carll is the son of Jesse and Ann 
Eliza Carll. His father's family settled at 
Northport, Long Island, N. Y., in 1670. 
Several of the family held commissions dur- 



Carll was in Johannesburg, South Africa, 
during the Jameson Raid, and was in the 
second party that crossed the desert of West 
Australia on camels. He has been around 
the world twice, and travelled all over the 
American continent from Alaska and Green- 
land to Patagonia. He married Henrietta 
V. Schlim, November 22, 1900. 

Carlton, Newcomb (M.E., '90), was born 
in Elizabeth, N. J., February 19, 1869; the 





ing the Revolutionary War, and one member 
sat in the first Continental Congress. Mr. 



Newcomb Cari.ton 

son of William James and Helen (New- 
comb) Carlton, He was engaged in the 
practice of mechanical and electrical engi- 
neering at BulTalo, N. Y., 1892-1900, from 
1895 with Mr. H. G. Meadows. He was Di- 
rector of Works for the Pan-American Ex- 
position held in Buffalo in 1901 ; then vice- 
president and executive officer of the Bell 
Telephone Company in that city ; and in 1904 
was appointed to his present position as 
fourth vice-president of the Westinghouse 
Electric & Manufacturing Co., with offices in 
New York city. He is an associate member 
of the American Society of Mechanical En- 
gineers, and a member of the Engineers' So- 
ciety of Western New York. 

Carroll, Lafayette D. (M.E., '84^, has 
filled positions, since graduation, as follows : 
In the department of installation, and after- 
ward as assistant superintendent of machin- 



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ery at the World's Industrial and Cotton 
Centennial Exposition, New Orleans, La., 
1884-85 ; manager of the Jefferson Pressed 
Brick Works, Birmingham, Ala., 1886; as- 
sistant engineer of the Coalburg Coal & Coke 
Co., Coalburg, Ala., 1887; assistant engineer 
with the Sloss Lon & Steel Co., Birming- 
ham, Ala., 1888; engineer and inspector for 
the latter company in charge of the con- 
struction of their blast furnaces at North 
Birmingham, 1889; engineer with J. W. 
Worthington & Co., Birmingham, Ala., 1890; 
assistant engineer engaged in field-work lo- 
cation of a line for the Ferro Carril Nacional 
de Tehuantepec in the State of Oaxaca, 
Mex., 1890-91 ; mechanical and electrical 
engineer at New Orleans, 1892-95 ; general 
manager for the Automatic Machine Co., 
1892-94; manager of the Louisiana Machine 
Co., Ltd., 1895; engineer on construction and 
operation of carburetted water-gas works in 
England and on the Continent for Messrs. 
Humphreys & Glasgow, London, 1896-98; 
and as engineer and manufacturing expert 
for the latter named firm,, 1898 to date. He 
is a member of the American Society of 
Mechanical Engineers, and of the Ameri- 
can Institute of Mining Engineers. He 
was a member of the International Con- 
gress for Mines and Metallurgy held at Paris 
in 1900. 

, Carroll, Walter (M.E., '84), held the po- 
sition of superintendent of the department 
of machinery at the International Southern 
Exhibition, New Orleans, La., which was in 
progress at the time of his graduation. When 
the Exhibition closed he became associated 
with the Hardy Machine Co., Birmingham, 
Ala. While located at Birmingham he was 
taken with rheumatism of the heart, which 
caused his death February 15, 1887. 

Carter, Lattimore Douglass (M.E., '95), 
was born in Jefferson County, Ky., Novem- 
ber 16, 1872. He was in the department 
of tests of the Southern Railway Co., 1895- 
96; and engineer and contractor for steam 
and electric plants and dealer in electrical 
supplies at Louisville, Ky., in 1897. But he 
was compelled to abandon this work on ac- 
count of ill health, and since 1900 he has 
been secretary and treasurer of the Cave 
Hill Cemetery Co., Louisville, Ky. He is a 



member of the Engineers' and Architects' 
Club, Louisville, Ky. ; of the Benevolent Pro- 
tective Order of Elks, and also of the Fall 
City Lodge No. 376, Free and Accepted 
Masons. 

Mr. Carter is the son of Kearsley and 
Sally R. Carter. He married Ellen Douglass 
Moore, August 13, 1896, and they have 
two children, Eleanor Rutherford and Cleon 
Moore Carter. 

Carter, R. S. (M.E., '00), during the sum- 
mers of 1 898-1900, and until December of 
the latter year, worked at the bench in the 
shops of the Ingersoll-Sergeant Drill Co., 
of New York. In December, 1900, he was 
transferred to the New York office, and a 
few months later was given a position as 
assistant manager and engineer of the New 
England branch at Boston, where he re- 
mained until December, 1902, when he took 
a similar position in the English house, with 
headquarters in London. 

Cartwright, James A. (M.E., '99), has 
held positions with the McAdams & Cart- 
wright Elevator Co., at New York and at 
Philadelphia, Pa. 

Cartwright, Wilmer Griffith (M.E., "82), 
was born in Philadelphia, Pa., April 18, 
1856. Immediately after graduation he was 
appointed principal assistant to Prof. R. H. 
Thurston, who was then at the head of the 
Engineering Department of the Stevens In- 
stitute of Technology, and held this posi- 
tion until his death. He was especially inter- 
ested in chemistry, taking the Priestley 
Prize in 1881. During his work in the Me- 
chanical Laboratory he made some peculiarly 
interesting investigations, including a study 
of the distribution of heat, in useful work, 
and wastes in gas-engines of several sizes 
and different makes; also in regard to the 
efficiency of worm and spur gearing. He 
was a member of the American Society of 
Mechanical Engineers and of the American 
Gas Light Association. In the Stevens In- 
dicator for March, 1884, will be found an 
account of Mr. Cartwright written by Prof. 
Thurston. 

Mr. Cartwright, who was the son of Wil- 
liam and Elvira (Levering) Cartwright, 
died in Jersey City, N. J., February 23, 1884. 



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Chadwell, William Hall (M.E., 'oo), was 
born in Catskill, N. Y., June 20, 1878. He 
has been employed in the works of the Pitts- 
burg Plate Glass Co., Ford City, Pa., 1900; 
in the meter-testing department of the Edi- 
son Electric Illuminating Co., 1900; as Avorks 
clerk for the Essex & Hudson Gas Co., 
Newark, N. J., 1901 ; and as superintendent 
of the Front Street works of the Public Ser- 
vice Corporation of New Jersey, 1902 to 
date. He is a member of the Theta Xi fra- 
ternity. 

Mr. Chadwell is the son of George H. 
and Emma C. (Willard) Chadwell. He 
married Rosetta T. McNaughton, October i, 
1903. 

Chandler, Richard Edward (M.E., '93), 
was born in Goderich, Out., November 17, 
1866. Previous to entering the Institute in 
1889, he served an apprenticeship in the 




R. F. Chandler 

shops of the Roanoke Machine Works, Roan- 
oke, Va., and was draughtsman for two 
years with the same company. After grad- 
uation he engaged with the Snow Steam 
Pump Co., Buffalo, N. Y., but in the same 
year became Professor of Mechanical En- 
gineering at the Montana Agricultural Col- 
lege, a position he held until 1896, during 
which time he organized the mechanical 
course there and built and equipped the col- 
lege workshops. Taking a postgraduate 



course at Cornell University, 1896-97, he re- 
ceived from that institution the degree of 
Master of Mechanical Engineering. He 
then became Adjunct Professor of Mechani- 
cal Drawing and Machine Design at the Uni- 
versity of Nebraska, 1897-98; and from the 
latter year to date has been in charge of the 
Department of Mechanical Engineering at 
the Oklahoma Agricultural and Mechanical 
College, Stillwater, Okla. In conjunction 
with E. Bedell and R. H. Sherwood he wrote 
a paper on " The Predetermination of the 
Regulation of Transformers with Non-in- 
ductive Loads," which was presented at the 
Detroit meeting of the American Associa- 
tion for the Advancement of Science, and 
which also appeared in the Electrical World, 
August 4, 1897. Mr. Chandler is a member 
of the Montana Society of Civil Engineers, 
of the American Association for the Ad- 
vancement of Science, and of the Sigma Xi 
society. 

Mr. Chandler is the son of Libert and 
Marion Chandler, and great-grandson of Dr. 
Richard Chandler, of Oxford, England. He 
married Lena A. Luce, August, 24, 1897. 

Chapin, Warren Winthrop (M.E., '97), 
was born in New York city. May 25, 1875 ; 
the son of Henry Judson and Elizabeth 
Christy Chapin. After graduation he was 
engaged for some time as a draughtsman in 
New York city. He then took an interest in, 
and became an active member of the firm of 
the Interstate Vending Co., and was engaged 
in the business of this company for several 
years when he took the position which he 
now holds in the engineering department of 
the American Bridge Co. He is a member 
of the American Society of Mechanical En- 
gineers and of the Chi Phi fraternity. 

Chapman, Alexander (M.E., '02), was born 
in Jersey City, N. J., July 30, 1880; son of 
Samuel C. and Emma J. Chapman, and of 
Scotch descent. He prepared for Stevens 
Institute in the Stevens School, and after 
graduation was for a short time in the de- 
partment of tests of the General Electric 
Co., at Schenectady, N. Y., and then with 
the Bristol Co., manufacturers of self-re- 
cording instruments for pressures, tempera- 
tures, and electricity, at Waterbury, Conn. 
Since 1903 he has been with the Continuous 



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Rail Joint Co. of America, whose general 
offices are in Newark, N. J. 




Alexander Chapman 

Chasteney, Charles Dunton (M.E., 'oi), 
was born in Passaic, N. J., March 29, 1877; 
son of Edward A. and Rebecca S. (Wester- 
velt) Chasteney. He was Assistant Instruc- 
tor at Stevens Institute during the Supple- 
mentary Term, 1901, and has been with the 




C. D. Chasteney 

De Laval Steam Turbine Co., Trenton, N. J., 
from 1901 to date. His graduating the- 



sis, prepared in conjunction with Mr. How- 
ard Watkins, was published in the Stevens 
Institute Indicator, October 1901. He is a 
junior member of the American Society of 
Mechanical Engineers, a member of the 
American Electrochemical Society, and of 
the Beta Theta Pi and Theta Nu Epsilon 
fraternities. 

Chatard, William Miles (M.E., 'oi), was 
born in Baltimore, Md., June 26, 1875 ! son 
of Dr. Ferdinand E. and Josephine M. 
(Miles) Chatard. Upon graduation he en- 
tered the employment of the Carbondale Ma- 
chine Co., at Carbondale, Pa., and after a 
short time was placed in charge of the Bos- 




W. M- Chatard 

ton office of the company, becoming later its 
New England manager, and being subse- 
quently placed in charge of the Chicago 
office of the same company. Recently he 
opened a temporary office for the Carbondale 
Machine Company at Baltimore, Md. He is 
a junior member of the American Society of 
Mechanical Engineers and a member of the 
Delta Tau Delta fraternity. His graduating 
thesis, written in conjunction with his class- 
mates, Messrs. Botchford and Holcombe, on 
" Comparison of Cost of Operating an Iron- 
Smelting Plant by Gas-Engines Using Waste 
Blast-Furnace Gas, and by Gas-Fired Boilers 
and Steam-Engines," was published in the 
Stevens Institute Indicator, January, 1902. 



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Chester, William Sidell (M.E., '86), was 
born in Englewood, N. J., December 7, 1865. 
In January, 1887, he entered the employ of 
the C & C Electric Co., with which he was 
connected np to the time of his death in 
1900. His work with this company sug- 
gested to him the idea of blowing church 
organs by means of electric motors, and he 
was the originator of this most successful 
system. After the first installation he practi- 
cally devoted all his time to putting in, and 
caring for, motors for operating organs. 
Mr. Chester was a musical genius, there be- 
ing no instrument on which he could not per- 



Standard Oil Co.'s works at Bayonne, N. J., 
from 1897 to date. 

Christy, Charles Roland, Jr., (M.E., 97), 
was born in Morristown, N. J., August 14, 
1873 ; son of Charles Roland and Jennie Pier- 
son Christy. He was engaged with the Blick- 
ensderfer Manufacturing Co., Stamford, 
Conn., from 1898 to 1900, the first year on 
experimental work and draughting, the sec- 
ond year as assistant superintendent. From 
1901 to date he has been a member of the 
firm of C. R. Christy & Son. Sabattis, N. Y., 
manufacturers of soft-wood lumber. 




W. S. Chester 

form, and he showed wonderful musical abil- 
ity at a very early age. He was particularly 
fond of the organ. He was appointed organ- 
ist and choir-master at St. George's Church, 
New York, in 1888, and left many composi- 
tions for voice and organ. He was a member 
of the following societies : The Players', Clef, 
Marine and Field, and St. George's Men's 
clubs, and of the American Guild of Organ- 
ists, and the Brotherhood of St. Andrew. 

The son of Charles T. and Lucretia L. 
(Roberts) Chester, he was a descendant of 
Baron Leonard Chester, who died in Weth- 
ersfield, Conn., in 1648. He married Jeanne 
F. Constentin, November 29, 1897. 

Chew, Roger (M.E., '97), has been en- 
in the chemical department of the 



Christy, John Lundy (M.E., '96), was 
born in Stamford, Conn., August 11, 1874; 
son of Charles R. and Jennie P. (Lundy) 
Christy. He is a descendant of the Pierson 
and Lundy families of Revolutionary fame. 
He was draughtsman with the Newell Uni- 
versal Mill Co., New York, 1896-99; secre- 
tary to the same company 1899-1900; and its 
treasurer from 1901 to date. His graduating 
thesis, prepared jointly with Mr. S. A. Has- 
brouck, on " The Determination of the Cost 
of Electric Lighting by Gas-Engine," was 
published in the Stevens Indicator, XIV, 12. 
He is a member of the Seventh Regiment 
N. G. S. N. Y. 

Church, Austin (M.E., '95), was chemical 
engineer for the firm of Church & Co., at 
their ammonia soda plant, Trenton, Wayne 
County, Mich., 1895-96; and has been sec- 
retary of the Sibley Quarry Co., Sibley, 
Mich., since 1896. He is a junior member 
of the American Society of Mechanical 
Engineers. 

Church, Charles Thomas (M.E., '95), was 
born in Brooklyn, N. Y., February 17, 1873. 
He was mechanical engineer at Church & 
Co.'s ammonia soda plant, Trenton, Mich., 
1895-96; his work being principally in the 
line of chemical engineering, such as the 
manipulation of machinery for handling 
large quantities of chemicals; and in charge 
of the Brooklyn plant of the Church & 
Dwight Co., manufacturers of bicarbonate of 
soda and sal-soda from 1896 to date. Fie has 
been director and assistant treasurer of that 
company since 1903. He is a junio- member 
of the American Society of Me< \\ Engi- 



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neers and a member of the Franklin Insti- 
tute, the Mayflower Society, and the Theta 
Xi fraternity. 




C. T. Church 

Mr. Church is the son of EHhu Dwight 
and Helen Victoria (Cooke) Church. He 
married Charlotte S. Nichols, of Detroit, 
Mich., June 3, 1903. 

Church, Warren Demarest (M.E., '99), 
was born in Brooklyn, N. Y., April 5, 1877; 




W. D. Church 

son of F'-"ik Alden and Alice (Demarest) 
Church. IS draughtsman with the Isbell- 



Porter Co., 1899-1900; and has since 
been with Kellogg & Alexander and M. W. 
Kellogg & Co., first as inspector on construc- 
tion work in connection with fertilizer 
plants, and now engaged in estimating and 
superintending contract work. He is a mem- 
ber of the Crescent Athletic Club, Brooklyn, 
and of the Chi Psi fraternity. 

Clark, Baylies C. (M.E., '96), was located 
in New York city, 1897-98; and has been 
a member of the Thurston-Clark Hosiery 
Co., Allendale, N. J. ; and of the Dolores 
Mining Co., Minaca, Chihuahua, Mex., from 
1898 to date. He is a member of the Delta 
Kappa Epsilon and Tau Beta Pi fraternities. 

Clark, Francis Morton (M.E., '02), was 
born in New York, February 22, 1880 ; son 
of Francis Baylies and Mary Catherine 
(Hill) Clark. He took the postgraduate 
course at the Columbia School of Mines, and 
is now at the Amador Reduction Works, Sut- 
ter Creek, Cal. Fie is a member of the Delta 
Kappa Epsilon Club and of the Delta Kappa 
Epsilon and Theta Nu Epsilon fraternities. 

Clerk, William Thompson (M.E., '85), 
was born in Jersey City, N. J., June 13, 1864. 
He was draughtsman with Post & McCord, 
engineers, 1885-86, and from May to De- 
cember in the latter year he served in the 
same capacity for Mr. Henry J. Harden- 
berg, architect. While thus engaged his 
health became so impaired that he was com- 
pelled to give up his position. After trav- 
elling for nearly two years he entered Col- 
umbia College to take the postgraduate 
course in architecture, which he completed 
in June, 1890. He again entered the employ 
of Mr. Hardenberg, and was engaged upon 
calculations for the ironwork of the Wal- 
dorf-Astoria Hotel, 1890-91. 

At this time, his health not having been 
satisfactorily restored, he decided to estab- 
lish himself as an architect in Santa Barbara, 
Cal., where he remained until April, 1895, 
and then spent several years travelling for 
both study and pleasure. In 1898 he re- 
moved to Washington, D. C, and resumed 
his practice as an architect. In 1893 he in- 
vented and designed a hoist for lifting and 
transporting large live trees, and in the 
same year erected the then largest lemon- 



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curing warehouse in America. In 1894 he 
designed and buih a modern genuine adobe 
hacienda on the Hnes of the Mexican struc- 




W. T. Clerk 

tures of a century ago, having an enclosed 
patio ; an ahnost unique specimen of archi- 
tecture in which tiles made in the old Mex- 
ican days of California were used. He was 
formerly a member of the University Club 
of New York, the New York Athletic Club, 
Palma Club of Jersey City, and the Santa 
Barbara and Santa Barbara Country clubs. 
He is a member of the University and Dum- 
barton clubs, of Washington, D. C. 

Mr. Clerk is the son of Andrew and 
Louise Clerk. He married Eleanor Double- 
day, February 4, 1897. 

Coffey, Barton Haxall (M.E., '85), was 
born in London, England, January 31, 1865; 
son of Edward Lees and Lucy E. (Haxall) 
Coffey. His father, who is of Irish descent, 
was an officer of the East India Company 
and afterward of the British army, a veteran 
of the Crimean war and of the Indian 
mutiny. His mother is a member of the 
Haxall family, of Richmond, Va. He was 
draughtsman for Otto C. Wolff, mill engi- 
neer, Philadelphia, 1887; with the Hyatt 
Filter Co., Newark, N. J., 1887; Henry War- 
den, Philadelphia, 1887-90; the Pennsylva- 
nia Ironworks Co., Philadelphia, 1890; 
Joseph Edwards & Co., New York, 1891 ; 



mechanical engineer for the International 
Contracting Co., New York, 1892-1900; and 
has been president of the Submarine Con- 
tracting Co., from 1901 to date. He has also 
been associated with Mr. Edwin Burhorn, 
M.E., as engineer and contractor, New York, 
from 1900 to date. Mr. Coffey has taken out 
patents for a gas-engine and gas-engine 
valve-gear, 1894, and for a subaqueous rock- 
breaker, 1900. He is a member of the Engi- 
neers' and University clubs, of Philadelphia, 
the National Arts and Fencers' clubs, of New 
York, and of the Chi Psi fraternity. 

Cohen, Frederick William (M.E., '92), 
was born in Orange, N. J., November 3, 
1870; son of Flerman Cohen, of Germany, 
and Helene A. (Harrison) Cohen, of Phil- 
adelphia. He has been engaged with the 
Pennsylvania Steel Co., since his gradua- 
tion : as draughtsman in the bridge and 
construction department, 1892-94; in the 
designing room of the same department, 
1894-96; resident engineer in the erection 
of the Niagara Arch between Suspension 
Bridge, N. Y., and Clifton, Canada, 1896- 
97 ; in the designing-room at Steelton, Pa., 
1897-98; engineer of erection in the bridge 
and construction department, having charge 
of all the erection, i8g8 to date, including 




F. W. Cohen 



the Gokteik Viaduct, Burma, and the ap- 
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East River Bridge, New York, and many 
others. He is a member of the American 
Society of Civil Engineers ; the Reform 
Club, of New York; the Harrisburg and 
Country clubs, of Harrisburg, Pa. ; the 
Pennsylvania Forestry Association ; and the 
Harrisburg Municipal League. 

Coker, J. L., Jr. (M.E., '88), is treasurer 
of the Carolina Fibre Co., manufacturers of 
manila paper, Hartsville, S. C. He has 
taken out two patents relating to the pro- 
duction of sulphite pulp, which are in suc- 
cessful operation. 

Coleman, Hubert Dudley, Jr. (M.E., '94), 
was born in New Orleans, La., October 2, 
1871. He worked during one grinding sea- 
son as assistant engineer and oiler in a 
Louisiana sugar-house, and then became 
draughtsman, inspector, and estimator with 
the H. Dudley Coleman Machinery Co., Ltd., 
of New Orleans, of which company he was 
a stockholder and director, his father being 
president. The company made sugar-, rice-, 
cotton-, and corn-mill machinery, and did 
repair work of all varieties, besides doing a 
large manufacturers' agent's business, and 
carrying a large stock of their own and con- 
signed machinery. While with this com- 




employed as weight-clerk in the melting and 
refining department of the United States 
Mint, New Orleans, La., from 1900 to 
Januar}' i905> when he was advanced 
to the position of melter and refiner by di- 
rect appointment from President Roosevelt. 
Pie is a member of the Delta Tau Delta 
fraternity. 

Mr. Coleman is the son of Hamilton Dud- 
ley and Jessie (Prague) Coleman. He mar- 
ried Isabelle Baquie, April 16, 1902.' 

Coley, Clarence Tallman (M.E., '01), was 
born in Jamesburg, N. J., December i, 1877: 




H. D. Coleman, Jr. 

pany he was for two years local inspector 
for the United States Casualty Co. He was 



C. T. Coley 

son of Frank W. and Minnie H. Coley. His 
early education was received at a New Jer- 
sey country district school. At the age of 
13 he spent one year at the Columbia Insti- 
tute Military School, New York; then, after 
four years, graduated with gold medal from 
Grammar School 69, New York ; entered 
Stevens Preparatory School in 1895, and the 
Institute in 1897. He was employed in the 
department of tests of the General Electric 
Co.'s works, Schenectady, N. Y., 1901-02; 
foreman of a section of the testing depart- 
ment, 1902-03; and has been Instructor in 
Mechanical and Electrical Engineering in 
Union University, Schenectady, N. Y., 1903 
to date. He is taking postgraduate work 
under Prof. C. P. Steinmetz in the modern 
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phenomena of alternating currents. Mr. 
Coley is an associate member of the Ameri- 
can Institute of Electrical Engineers, and a 
member of the Mohawk Lacrosse Club, of 
Schenectady, N. Y. He is also a member of 
the Theta Xi fraternity and an honorary 
member of the society of Sigma Xi of Union 
University. 

Colles, George Wetmore (M.E., '94), was 
born in New York city February 16, 1871 ; 
son of George Wetmore and Julia Keese 
Colles. Before entering Stevens Institute he 
received the degree of Bachelor of Arts at 
Yale University in 1892, and in 1900 he took 
the degree of Master of Science at Colum- 
bian University, Washington. His occupa- 
tions since, graduation have been: machinist 
in the Hoboken shops of the Pennsyl- 




G. W. Colles 

vania Railroad Co., subsequently becoming 
draughtsman and designer, 1894-95 ; in the 
shops of the Westinghouse Electric & Man- 
ufacturing Co., Pittsburg, Pa., 1895-96; en- 
gaged in developing a new process for elec- 
trolysis of salt, Boston, Mass., 1896; 
draughtsman and designer with Stone & 
Webster, Massachusetts Electrical Engineer- 
ing Co., 1896-97; engineer in the isolated 
lighting department of the Edison Electric 
Illuminating Co., Boston, 1897-99; assistant 
examiner of patents, 1899-1901 ; engineer 
for the Crabtree Creek Mica Co., of North 



CaroHna, with offices at Washington, D.C., 
1900-01 ; mechanical engineer and chief of 
the technical force of the firm of Marion & 
Marion, Montreal, Canada, 1902 until re- 
cently ; and he has now an office as consult- 
ing engineer in Milwaukee, Wis. For about 
two years, 1897-99, he was correspondent of 
the Railroad Gazette. 

Mr. Colles was granted a patent in 1895 
for an electric regulator, — a governor for 
prime movers driving dynamos and for some 
other purposes. He has other patents pend- 
ing. An article on " The Distance of the 
Stars by Doppler's Principle," by Mr. Colles, 
appeared in the American Journal of Science, 
April, 1893. It consisted of a new method 
of calculating stellar distances and involved 
higher mathematics, the theory of mean val- 
ues and of probability ; by its application the 
mean distance of 95 stars is given as from 
80 to 150 light-years. He published " Oppor- 
tunities for Improvement in Mica-Mining " 
in the Engineering Magazine, February, 
1902. His graduation thesis at Stevens In- 
stitute was " Report of a Test on a New 
Design of Electric Railway Power Station," 
prepared jointly with Mr. E. B. Gallaher. 
This thesis was awarded first prize in the 
Engineering Nezvs thesis competition of 
1894, and was published in that journal 
March 7, 1895. He presented a paper, De- 
cember, 1896, entitled " The Metric Versus 
the Duodecimal System," to the meeting of 
the American Society of Mechanical Engi- 
neers; this paper was favorably noticed by 
the engineering journals of this country, and 
by Engineering of London. His thesis for 
the Master of Science degree was " Rotary 
Transformers," — the first complete treatment 
of the subject, — published by the Journal of 
the Franklin Institute, March, July, 1901. 
Mr. Colles is a luember of the American So- 
ciety of Mechanical Engineers, and of the 
Phi Beta Kappa fraternity, of Yale. He 
was formerly an associate member of the 
American Institute of Electrical Engineers. 

Collins, C. R. (M.E., '86), after gradu- 
ating, entered the service of the United Gas 
Improvement Co., Philadelphia, as draughts- 
man. During the first year he was detailed 
to carry on the first tests of the original in- 
vestigation of the Welsbach incandescent 
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to this country and the rights for the United 
States offered to the United Gas Improve- 
ment Co. During his service for the Wels- 
bach interests he held the position of engi- 
neer of the first company organized, and was 
later made acting superintendent of the fac- 
tory at Gloucester, N. J., and finally placed 
in charge of the work of making the first 
practical installation for the sub-company 
organized in Philadelphia, Pa. In 1888 he 
resigned from the Welsbach Co. and re-en- 
tered the service of the United Gas Improve- 
ment Co. From 1888 to 1895 he served on 
the staff of the constructing force, finally 
taking a position on the home office staff as 
one of the company's inspectors, his special 
detail being the supervision of manufactur- 
ing results. 

In 1895 Mr. Collins accepted the position 
of general manager of the Manhattan Incan- 
descent Light Co., organized to take the 
agency for New York city for the sale of 
Welsbach lamps, being also vice-president. 
This company was finally absorbed by the 
Welsbach Commercial Co. Mr. Collins re- 
signed in 1896 and opened an office as con- 
sulting engineer in New York. In the same 
year he became general manager of the 
Seattle Gas & Electric Light Co., Seattle. 
Wash., and in 1900 opened offices in Seattle 
as consulting" and constructing engineer, 
having severed his official connection with 
the Seattle Gas & Electric Light Co. His 
chief work outside of the consulting business 
was the construction of the works and distri- 
bution system for the city of Everett, Wash. 
From 1900 Mr. Collins also occupied the 
position of general manager and chief engi- 
neer of the Citizens' Light & Power Co., of 
Seattle, the works and street mains being- 
laid out and constructed under his direction. 
In 1904 the gas companies of Seattle were 
consolidated, and Mr. Collins assumed the 
position of manager and engineer, at the 
same time continuing his consulting business. 

Mr. Collins has taken out patents for oil 
spray for water-gas apparatus, process and 
apparatus for the continuous generation of 
carburetted water-gas, and a carburetter for 
vaporizing oil in the manufacture of water- 
gas, and has contributed several papers to 
the American Gas Light Association, of 
which, as also of the Pacific Gas Association, 
he is a member. 



Collyer, Charles F. (M.E., '96), has since 
graduation been employed in designing hy- 
draulic and pneumatic machinery for oper- 
ating balanced canal locks for the Button 
Pneumatic Lock & Engineering Co., New 
York; as computer and draughtsman with 
John J. McLaughlin, county engineer of 
Queens County, N. Y. ; as assistant mechan- 
ical superintendent of the Clark Thread Co., 
of Newark, N. J. ; and with the Watts Camp- 
bell Co., Newark, N. J. He is a member of 
the Tau Beta Pi fraternity. 

Condit, Edward Ager, Jr. (M.E., '02), was 
born in Hoboken, N. J., September 17, 1880; 
son of Edward Ager and Addie M. (De 




E. A. Condit, Jr. 

Ronde) Condit. His ancestors are first re- 
corded as purchasers of land in Newark, 
N. J., in 1678. His great grandfather was 
Col. David Condit, of the Revolutionary 
army, who died in 1777. Since graduation 
he has been engaged in draughting and de- 
signing with the Continuous Rail Joint Co. 
of America, at Newark ; later being given 
charge of the inspection of a certain line 
of work. He is at present resident inspec- 
tor of the Albany Iron and Steel Works 
department of this company at Troy, N. Y. 

Connet, Frederick N. (M.E., '89), in the 
fall of 1889 became chief draughtsman with 
the Builders' Iron Foundry, Providence, R. I., 



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and in connection with Mr. A. A. Fuller 
(M.E., '88) designed special metal-working 
machinery, part of which was used in the 
construction of 12-inch mortars and their 
carriages for the United States Government. 
In connection with Mr. Fuller and Mr. 
Walter W. Jackson (M.E., '89) he designed, 
and patented in the United States, an inte- 
grating and registering instrument forming 
part of the well-known Venturi water-meter 
for large water-mains. Patents have also 
been issued on this invention in England 
and France. He also designed, and patented 
in the United States, a three-motor electric 
travelling crane, two of which, each of 25 
tons capacity, were built ; and he designed, 
and patented in the United States, France, 
and England the " Pull to Start and Pull 
to Stop " belt-shifter for use in connection 
with countershafts, being attached thereto 
directly or to the ceiling. Mr. Connet repre- 
sented the Builders' Iron Foundry on the 
Committee on Standardization of Extra 
Heavy Flanges, whose report, as published 
in the Stevens Indicator for January, 1902, 
has been widely adopted. Mr. Connet now 
holds the position of engineer at the Build- 
ers, Iron Foundry, Providence, R. I. In con- 
nection with Mr. Fuller he wrote for the 
Indicator of July and October, 1890, two 
articles relating to the manufacture of 12- 
inch mortars; and a number of articles by 
Mr. Connet also appeared in that publica- 
tion, as follows : " Amateur Photography," 
VI, 41 ; " Design for Locomotive Combus- 
tion Chamber," VI, 190; and "Notes on 
Book-Making," VI, 209. The Journal of 
the Franklin Institute, CXLVII, No. 2, said 
of the Venturi water-meter : 

"Its invention, design, and perfection are the 
fruit of great ingenuity and of much knowledge 
and painstaking labor, and they [the inventors] 
have been of vast benefit to the community by 
making the Venturi meter a practical working 
tool. Its inventors, Messrs. Frederick N. 
Connet and Walter W. Jackson of Providence, 
are therefore entitled to distinguished honor at 
the hands of the Franklin Institute, and we take 
pleasure in recommending the award to them of 
the John Scott Legacy Premium Medal for their 
registering apparatus." 

This meter was also described in Cassier's 
Magazine for March, 1899, by Mr. Clem- 
ens Herschel, who gives Messrs. Connet and 



Jackson high praise for their invention. Mr. 
Connet's thesis subjects were, " Design for a 
Locomotive Valve Gear " and " A New Sys- 
tem for Compounding Locomotives." The 
first consisted of a valve gear that requires 
no eccentrics, overhung cranks, or cams, 
neither is the movement derived from a 
point on the connecting-rod. The second de- 
sign, relating to compounding, involved the 
use of three cylinders of about equal bore, 
but requires no cranked axle. 

Cook, Edward Jerome (M.E., '86), was 
born in Springfield, O., January 4, 1865. He 




E. J. Cook 

was employed in the shops and draughting- 
room of the Engine & Thresher Co., and 
the Whiteley Reaper Works, 1886-88; and 
became successively assistant engineer, su- 
perintendent of steam plant, and superin- 
tendent of the Edison Electric & Illumi- 
nating Co., Brooklyn, N. Y., 1888-91; and 
constructing, engineer and vice-president of 
the Field Engineering Co., New York, 1891- 
94. He was engaged in designing the plants 
of the Cleveland Electric Illuminating Co., 
Cleveland, O., and of the Detroit Citizens' 
Street Railway Co., Detroit, Mich., 1894-96; 
as electrical engineer with the Cleveland 
Electric Railway Co., 1896-1900; in the 
same capacity with the Cleveland City Rail- 
way Co., 1900-03 ; and has been chief engi- 
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1903. He is a member of the American So- 
ciety of Mechanical Engineers, an associate 
member of the American Institute of Elec- 
trical Engineers, and a member of the Sigma 
Chi fraternity. 

Mr. Cook is the son of Jerome W. and 
HettieA. Cook. He married Mary Hertzler 
Rubsam, October 14, 1894, and they have 
one child, Mary Katharine Cook. 

Cook, Herbert Bloomer (M.E., '93), was 
born in Middletown, Conn., November 5, 
1870; son of George Harvey and Addie M. 
(Silliman) Cook. After graduation he en- 
tered the machine-shops of the Pencoyd 
Iron Works and then became assistant en- 
gineer with C. H. Gifford & Co., agents for 
tlie B. F. Sturtevant Co., in Philadelphia. 
After the death of Mr. Andrew Shiebler 
(M.E., '92), who had been his superior, he 
was promoted, in August, 1895, to the posi- 
tion of chief engineer, in which capacity he 
was engaged until the time of his death, 
August 23, 1896. The graduating thesis of 
Messrs. Cook and A. B. Lord on the " De- 
termination of the Water-Consumption of a 




H. B. Cook 

Ball & Wood Engine when Running Under 
Light Loads," was published in the Stevens 
Indicator, X, 278. 

Cooke, Frederick W. (M.E., '82), was 
vice-president of the Cooke Locomotive & 



Machine Co., of Paterson, N. J., 1886-1902; 
and has been vice-president of the Ameri- 
can Locomotive & Machine Co., Paterson, 
N. J., from 1903 to date. 

Cooke, John S. (M.E., '79), was with the 
Danforth Locomotive & Machine Co., Pat- 
erson, N. J., 1879-82; vice-president and 
general manager, 1882-86, and president, 
1886-1902, of the Cooke Locomotive & Ma- 
chine Co., Paterson; and has been president 
and general manager of the American Loco- 
motive & Machine Co., Paterson, from 1903 
to date. 

Cooper, Stuart (M.E., '95), was born in 
Nice, France, April 17, 1873. He was with 




Stuart Cooper 

the Dean Linseed Oil Co., Port Richmond, 
Staten Island, N. Y., for one year, as assist- 
ant to the superintendent. Next he took 
charge of the refinery of the Northfield Oil- 
Refining Co., as superintendent for produc- 
ing a special varnish oil, 1896-1900; was 
with the Pennsylvania & Delaware Oil Co., 
of New York, 1900-01 ; master at St. Paul's 
School, Concord, N. H., 1901-02. He was 
next located in Annapolis, Md., as half- 
owner and manager of the Annapolis Stor- 
age Co., during the erection of a ferro-con- 
crete-construction warehouse for that com- 
pany and getting the business under way. 
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7, 1903, treasurer, secretary, and manager 
(being also the largest stockholder) in the 
Bernhard Dietz Co., of Baltimore, manufac- 
turers of printers' rollers and roller-composi- 
tion. He is a member of the Delta Tau 
Delta fraternity. 

Mr. Cooper is the son of Rear-Adm. Philip 
H. Cooper, U.S.N., and Sarah Stuart Cooper. 
He married Elizabeth McDougal, Septem- 
ber I, 1898. 

Corbett, L. B. (M.E., '92), is engaged in 
the manufacture of chemicals at Brookdale, 
Pa., imder the name of the Susquehanna 
Manufacturing Co. 

Corbett, William H. (M.E., 95), became, 
soon after graduation, assistant superinten- 
dent of the Garvin Machine Co., New York, 
and later successively superintendent of the 
bicycle department of the F. F. Chase Ma- 
chine Works Co., Plainfield, N. J- ; chief 
draughtsman for the Ball & Wood Co., Eliz- 
abeth, N. J. ; chief engineer at the Bayonne 
(N. J.) works of the Martin Kalbfleisch 
Chemical Co. ; superintendent of the New 
Era Metal Co., Garwood, N. J. ; and from 
1898 to 1900 consulting and contracting en- 
gineer, in connection with B. C. Ball, New 
York. During the latter period he assisted 
in the organization and became president of 
the Whitman Manufacturing Co., incorpo- 
rated for the manufacture of tools and special 
machinery, with the Ball & Corbett friction 
clutch for gas and gasoline engines, a new 
wrench for iron pipe^ and one for polished 
or nickeled brass pipe, as specialties. Asso- 
ciated with Mr. Corbett in this enterprise 
were his college mates, Messrs. B. C. Ball 
and Allen E. Whitman. In 1900 he went to 
Portland, Ore., to take the office of vice- 
president and general manager of the Willa- 
mette Iron & Steel Works in that city, and 
later the office of vice-president of the Wil- 
lamette Boiler Works, also of Portland. Re- 
cently Mr. Corbett has become president of 
each of these companies. 

Corbin, David (M.E., '94), was born in 
Brooklyn, N. Y., April 24, 1869; son of 
Job and Maria H. (Weaver) Corbin. His 
ancestors were natives of New England. On 
graduation he entered the employment of the 
East River Gas Co., Long Island City, N. Y. : 



was then engaged in the students' course at 
the works of the General Electric Co., Sche- 
nectady, N. Y., 1895-97; draughting for the 
Western Electric Co., New York, on tele- 
phone and power switchboard work and 
shop machine design, 1897-98; in the shop 
of W. D. Forbes & Co., Hoboken, N. ]., 1899; 
with the Fayne Engine Co., Elmira, N. Y., 
1899-1900; in the engineering corps of the 
Diesel Motor Co., New York, 1900-01 ; with 
the De Dion Bouton Motor Co., Brooklyn, 
N. Y., 1901 ; and has been engaged in pro- 
fessional engineering work from 1901 to date, 

Corwin, William S. (M.E., '85), has since 
graduation had the following experience: 
as electrical and mechanical engineer, at 
Newark, N. J., 1*85-88; with John F. Bahr 
& Co., manufacturers of electrical and tele- 
graph instruments, New York, 1888-89; with 
the Daft Electric Railway Co., Marion, N. J., 
1890-92; in the railway department of the 
General Electric Co., New York, 1893-94; 
and in the firm of Tucker & Corwin, consult- 
ing and supervising engineers, Newark, 
N. J., from 1896 to date. 

Cosgrove, James Edward (M.E., '00), was 
born in Brooklyn, N. Y., July 20, 1879. His 




J. E. Cosgrove 

preparatory education was received at the 
Brooklyn grammar and high schools. He 
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& Cumings Dredging Co., 1900; superin- 
tendent of the New York shops of the 
American Electrical & Maintenance Co., 
1900-01 ; superintendent of the Columbian 
Foundry & Machine Works, Brooklyn, N. Y., 
1901-02, and its secretary and treasurer, 
1902-03. He was superintendent of the 
Morris & Cumings Dredging Co. at the time 
of his death, which resulted from an opera- 
tion for appendicitis, April 11, 1904. 

Mr. Cosgrove was the son of John Nicho- 
las and Catherine E. Cosgrove, both of 
whom were born, in New York State, of 
Irish parents who had settled in Canada in 
the early part of last century. He married 
Helen Wallace McCoy, January 7, 1903. 

Coster, Maurice (M.E., 'TJ^, was born in 
Paramaribo, Surinam (Dutch Guiana), Au- 
gust 4, 1856. He went to Boston, Mass., in 
June, 1873, and shortly afterward became 
night clerk in the Congress Hall hotel, 
Albany, N. Y., during the day attending the 
Albany high school. He entered the Sopho- 
more class of Stevens Institute in 1874. He 
was naturalized in 1880. 

He became an apprentice in the shops of 
the Central Railway of Iowa, Marshalltown, 
Iowa, in 1877; was instructor of mechanical 
drawing to the apprentices of the Lake Shore 
& Michigan Southern Railway, at Cleveland, 
O., 1878-80; manager of a sugar refinery at 
Anna Regina, and consulting engineer for 
sugar estates in British Guiana, 1881-87; 
engineer with the Westinghouse Electric & 
Manufacturing Co., Pittsburg, Pa., 1888-91 ; 
manager of the Pittsburg agency of the same 
company 1892-95; and manager of its Chi- 
cago agency 1895-99; sotts-directeur of the 
Societe Industrielle d'Electricite, Procedes 
Westinghouse, Paris, France, 1899-1901 ; and 
directciir of the Societe Anonyme Westing- 
house, Paris, from 1901 to date. The 
Societe Anonyme Westinghouse, with a 
capital of 20,000,000 francs, took over the 
business of the Societe Industrielle d'Electri- 
cite, Procedes Westinghouse, and is the sole 
manufacturer of Westinghouse Electric and 
Westinghouse Air Brake Apparatus for the 
countries of France, Spain, Portugal, Italy, 
Switzerland, Belgium, and Holland, their 
colonies and dependencies. Mr. Coster has 
taken out several patents relating to the con- 
struction of furnaces for the burnino- of 



green bagasse. He has written several pa- 
pers treating of the manufacture of sugar, 
which were read before the Royal Agricul- 




Maurice Coster 

tural Society, Georgetown, British Guiana, 
and published in the journal of that society. 
He was honorary consulting engineer to the 
Commissioner-General of the United States 
to the Universal International Exposition 
at Paris in 1900 ; and is a member of the 
American Institute of Electrical Engineers 
and of the Automobile Club de France. 

Mr. Coster is the son of A. M. and P. 
Coster. He married Edith Beckett (de- 
ceased in 1895) in 1886. Three children 
were born of this marriage, Norman Beckett, 
Helen Beckett, and Kenneth Beckett Coster. 
He married Augusta Blanche Bennett in 
1902. 

Cotiart, Emil, Maurice (M.E., '86), was 
born in Havana, Cuba, September 22, 1864; 
son of Jean Pierre and Adelaide (del Cam- 
po) Cotiart. Pie studied in France for a time 
and is now a consulting engineer in Paris. 
He is a member of Theta Xi fraternity. 

Cottier, Joseph Germain Charles (M.E., 
'94), was born in Jersey City, N. J., May 29, 
1874; son of Jean Germain Charles and 
Amanda Malcom (Luxton) Cottier. On his 
father's side he was descended from an old 
Huguenot family, and on his mother's side 



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of American extraction. He showed re- 
markable ability in early life, being gifted 
as a musician, a writer, and a photographer. 




J. G. C. Cottier 

At the age of eleven he entered a school in 
France and remained there two years. He 
graduated from Grammar School No. 7 
Jersey City, at the age of fourteen. He was 
then a student at Stevens Preparatory 
School. He won the scholarship and entered 
Stevens Institute, graduating in 1894. He 
edited the journal of a literary society in 
Jersey City, and wrote for various periodi- 
cals, such as Anthony's " Photographic 
Bulletin," etc. After graduation he secured 
several positions in mercantile establish- 
ments, none of which, however, offered op- 
portunities for him to pursue the studies for 
which he still entertained a fond desire. Ac- 
cordingly in the autumn of 1895 he made 
application for and secured an appointment 
as University Scholar in Mechanics in the 
School of Pure Science at Columbia Univer- 
sity. The following account and estimate of 
Mr. Cottier's ability is taken from a letter 
received from Prof. R. S. Woodward, of Co- 
lumbia University : 

"He pursued mechanics as his major subject, 
and chose mathematics and education as minor 
subjects. At the end of the academic year 
1895-96 he took the degree of Master of Arts. 
At the same time he was appointed to a Univer- 
sity Fellowship, one of the highest honors con- 



ferred upon graduate students by Columbia. 
Continuing his studies during the year 1896-97, 
he completed nearly all the lecture work essen- 
tial for the degree of Doctor of Philosophy. By 
reason of his exceptional merits as a student he 
was reappointed Fellow in Mechanics for the 
year 1897-98, It was his expectation and our 
desire that he would have this entire year to 
devote to the completion of his doctorate dis- 
sertation on fltiid motion and pressure." 

This career, so full of promise, was sud- 
denly terminated by the death of Mr. Cottier, 
which occurred in Paris, August 18, 1897, 
while he was on a bicycle tour through 
France. 

He left two important papers in Prof. 
Woodward's* hands for publication. One of 
these, " On the Application of the Equations 
of Hydromechanics to the Terrestrial At- 
mosphere," appeared in the Monthly Weath- 
er Rez'iew for July, 1897, published by the 
United States Weather Bureau. The other, 
" On the Applications of Curvilinear Co- 
ordinates to the Equations of Hydromechan- 
ics," appeared subsequently in the Mathemat- 
ical Rcz'iczv, published at Clark University. 

Cox, Frederic William (M.E., '00), was 
born in Bridgeton, N. J-. September 20, 1877; 



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son of Stephen Cox, Jr., and Laura C. Cox. 
Pie was assistant foreman in the shops of 
the Cox & Sons Co., founders and manu- 



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facturers, at Bridgeton, N. J., 1900-01 ; 
draughtsman with the same company, 1901- 
02 ; and has been assistant superintendent of 
the factory and secretary of the corporation 
from 1902 to date. He is a member of the 
Theta Xi and Tau Beta Pi fraternities. 

Cox, James McCullough (M.E., '94), was 
born in New York city January 19, 1873. 
He has been assistant superintendent of the 
Philadelphia & Reading Railroad Terminal 
at Philadelphia, from 1894 to date, and has 
charge of the machinery connected with the 
terminal station^ including arc and incan- 
descent electric lighting, cold-storage and ice 
plant, air-compressors, elevator machinery, 
storage battery, boilers, etc. Since 1899 he 
has been electrical engineer in charge of 
all electric lighting and power for the above- 
mentioned road. He is a member of the 
Engineers' Club, Philadelphia, and of the 
Delta Tau Delta fraternity. 

Mr. Cox is a son of Edwin Marion and 
Alida (McCullough) Cox. He married Nel- 
lie Glover, July 14, 1894, and they have one 
child, Harold Marion Cox. 

Cox, John Lyman (M.E., '87), was born 
in Philadelphia, Pa., in 1866; son of James 
S. ai'id Mary F. (Hazard) Cox. He was 




course in the Stevens High School. Early 
in the year 1888 he entered the employ of 
the Midvale Steel Co., of Philadelphia, and 
shortly thereafter was made assistant fore- 
man of the forge. Since 1896 he has been 
in charge of this department, which includes 
the hammer, tilting, and hydraulic press 
shops, as well as the blacksmith shop, roll- 
ing-mill and shipping-department. He has 
taken an active part in many of the improve- 
ments and extensions which have marked 
the phenomenal growth of these works in 
recent years. 

Mr. Cox is a member of the University 
Club of Philadelphia, of the Society of Co- 
lonial Wars, the Geographical Society of 
Philadelphia, the American Geographical 
Society, and of the Pennsylvania Academy 
of Fine Arts. 

Coyne, Frank Henderson (M.E., '94), 
was born in East Orange, N. J., June 25, 



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educated in private schools, finishing his 
preparation for the Institute by a special 



F. H. Coyne 

1873. He attended Stevens Preparatory 
School, 1888-90. He was superintendent of 
the sulphite mills of the Remington Paper 
Co., Watertown, N. Y., 1894-95 ; manager 
of the Carson Creek Gold-Mining Co., 
Angels' Camp, Cal., 1895-97; took a special 
mining engineering course at Massachusetts 
Institute of Technology, 1897-98; was engi- 
neer with Fraser & Chalmers, Chicago, 1898; 
superintendent of Pecos Sulphur Co., Pecos, 



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Tex., 1899; president and general manager 
of the New Jersey & Missouri Zinc Mining 
Co., and of the Standard Zinc Co., Webb 
City, Mo., 1900-01 ; general manager of the 
Waverly Gold Mines Co., VVaverly, N. S., 
and the Rose Blanche Gold Mines Co., New- 
foundland, 1901-02. From 1903 to date he 
has been conducting a general mechanical 
and mining engineering business at Chicago, 
111. He is a member of the American Insti- 
tute of Mining Engineers, of the University 
Club of San Francisco, of the New York 
Athletic, Orange Athletic, Chicago Athletic, 
Halifax, Union, and Orange clubs, and of 
the Theta Xi and Theta Nu Epsilon frater- 
nities. 

Mr. Coyne is the son of John and Mary 
Sears (Kendall) Coyne. His father was born 
in Ireland of Irish-French Huguenot ances- 
try, and came to this country and settled 
in East Orange in 1840. His mother was 
born in Concord, Mass., of Scotch-English 
Puritan stock whose ancestors came to Amer- 
ica in the seventeenth century. He married 
Frances Smith Moffett, April 22, 1900. 

Craft, Morgan E. (M.E., '95), was born 
in New York city May 15, 1869; son of 




M. E. Craft 



Elijah R. and Julia M. Craft. He was of old 
Revolutionary stock, and his father served 
in the Union army from 1861 to 1865. 

While a student at the Institute he was 



engaged as instructor in manual training 
and mechanical engineering at the high 
school at Montclair. After graduation he 
was appointed assistant to Prof. Leeds, in 
the Department of Chemistry at Stevens 
Institute. Owing to ill health he was com- 
pelled to relinquish his duties in 1897, and 
was unable thereafter to resume his work. 
He died at PhcEuix, Arizona, November 18, 
1899. He was a member of the New Jersey 
Athletic Club and of the Chi Phi fraternity. 

Cremer, James M. (M.E., '76), was em- 
ployed for nearly a year at the Midvale Steel 
Works, Jr'hiladelphia, Pa., as assistant to the 
chief engineer and under the direction of the 
superintendent and assistant superintendent. 
Flis duties included general work in draught- 
ing, testing of steel for tensile strength and 
other properties, and other special work. 
After leaving the Midvale Steel Works he 
was for a time draughtsman for Messrs. 
Taws & Hartman, Philadelphia, Pa., on blast- 
furnace work and on the Siemens-Cowper- 
Cochrane hot-blast stoves. He then took a 
position with Wm. B. Bement & Son, Phila- 
delphia, where he remained about three years, 
being engaged upon heavy work which in- 
cluded a great variety of machine-tools, also 
upon steam and hydraulic work. In 1882 Mr. 
Cremer became assistant to Wm. M. Barr, 
then superintendent of the Cummer Engine 
Co., Cleveland, O. He was employed upon 
special work in connection with the design 
of a complete line of steam-engines and of 
special tools and jigs for their manufacture. 
When Mr. Barr resigned his position, Mr. 
Cremer assumed part of the duties of su- 
perintendent at the Cummer Co. Early in 
1886 he received an offer from Mr. Barr 
(then superintendent of the works of H. R. 
Worthington) of a position similar to the 
one he originally held with the Cummer Co., 
which he accepted. He then began design- 
ing special tools, etc., making drawings for 
two large machines, from one of which de- 
signs a number of engines were built. He 
was afterward put in charge of the purchas- 
ing department of H. R. Worthington. He 
also had charge of the making of contracts 
for new buildings and alterations and exten- 
sions of the works. Owing to changes in the 
organization of the Worthington Co. in 1893, 
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he accepted, for a short time, a similar posi- 
tion with the firm of J. B. & J. M. Cornell, 
New York. Since April, 1896, he has been 
engaged in the sale and installation of the 
Nash gas engine for electric lighting and 
power, for the National Meter Co., New 
York. 

He has written a number of articles re- 
lating to the Nash gas and gasoline engines 
for various technical journals, besides at- 
tending to the gas-engine catalogue work for 
the National Meter Co. 

Crisfield, James Alfred Pearce (M.E., '87), 
was born in Chestertown, Md., in November, 




J. A. P. Crispield 

1864. He was with the Welsbach Incandes- 
cent Gas Light Co., New York, 1887-89; 
assistant superintendent and secretary of the 
Mutual Gas I-^ight Co., Savannah, Ga., 1889- 
94; superintendent, for the United Gas Im- 
provement Co., of the Mutual Gas Light Co., 
at Savannah, 1894-99; designing engineer 
for the United Gas Improvement Co., Phila- 
delphia, 1899-1904; and is now engineer of 
construction for the same company. He is a 
member of the American Gas Light Associa- 
tion and of the Theta Xi fraternity. 

Mr. Crisfield is the son of Arthur and 
Charlotte A. L. Crisfield. His ancestors were 
lawyers and physicians as far back as any- 
thing is known of them. He married Jose- 
phine Noble Jones in December, 1894, and 



they have three children, Lillie Habersham, 
Arthur Woodland, and Josephine Neyle 
Crisfield. 

Cromwell, Jacob Ellsworth (M.E., '97), 
was born in Piedmont, W, Va., February 8, 
1870; son of Andrew Jackson and Margaret 
Ann Cromwell. His paternal ancestors were 
residents of Maryland, and those on the 
maternal side, of Virginia. Maternally he is 
a branch of the same family tree as George 
Washington. He received his early educa- 
tion in the public schools of Baltimore. 
After leaving the high school he served as 
an apprentice in the Baltimore & Ohio rail- 
road shops, during which time he attended 
and graduated from the Maryland Institute 
of Art and Design. Since graduating from 
Stevens he has been handling general engi- 
neering work in the Baltimore & Ohio 
draughting-room, and is now special inspec- 
tor in the motive power department of the 
Mt. Clare shops of the company. 

Cronise, Ernest S. (M.E., '81), was born 
in New York, October 16, 1861. He was 
an apprentice in the Fort Wayne shops of 
the Pennsylvania Railroad in the spring of 
1882; engaged on expert work for the mo- 
tive-power department of the New York, 




E. S. Cronise 



West Shore, & Bufifalo Railroad, and also 
held the position of superintendent of car- 



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THE STEVENS INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY 



construction of this road, at the PuHman 
shops. In 1885 he entered the shops of Henry 
R. Worthington, Brooklyn, N. Y., and at the 
end of a year was engaged in superintending 
the erection of various Worthington pump- 
ing-engines for waterworks. Among these 
may be mentioned two vertical engines for 
the Cincinnati Waterworks, of 25,000,000 
gallons capacity, which was the first vertical 
direct-acting pumping-engine of any size 
ever constructed. Later he was confidential 
secretary in New York^ and superintendent 
of branch offices and agencies of Henry R. 
Worthington. In September, 1894, he estab- 
lished himself in New York as a consulting 
engineer and railway expert. His contri- 
butions to the " Bond Record " received 
favorable comment from leading American 
and English financial papers, and his reports 
on the Baltimore & Ohio Railroad, and on 
the Erie Railway, which also appeared in the 
" Bond Record," were esteemed by prominent 
financiers as remarkable for their scope and 
clearness. He was engaged upon reports of 
other railway systems when an attack of 
malarial fever caused his death, September 
14, 1896. 

Crowell, Henry Walcott (M.E., '99), was 
born in Newark, N. J., September 6, 1877. 




H. W. Crowell 

He was assistant foreman and draughtsman 
with the Lambert Hoisting-Engine Co., 



Newark, N. J., 1899-1901. Through com- 
petitive examination, in which he took first 
rank, he secured a position in the equipment 
department of the electrical branch of the 
New York Navy Yard, which he has held 
from November, 1901, to date. He was 
associated with Mr. W. B. Rainsford in the 
preparation of a graduating thesis on " Ex- 
perimental Determination of the Steam 
Consumption of an Automatic Engine at Ex- 
ceptionally High Speeds," published in the 
Stevens Institute Indicator, January, 1900. 

Mr. Crowell is the son of Joseph Grover 
and Laura F. Crowell. He married Blod- 
wen'Sauvage, December 10, 1902. 

Cuming, Thomas B. (M.E., '95), has been 
connected, since graduation, with the Worth- 
ington Pump Co., and the Meyer-Sniffen 
Co., Ltd., both of New York. During the 
war with Spain Mr. Cuming served on 
board the U. S. S. " Yankee." 

Cuntz, Hermann Francis (M.E., 93), was 
born in Hoboken, N. J., July 21, 1872. Im- 
mediately after graduation he spent a few 
months as assistant engineer of tests in the 
Department of Awards of the World's Col- 
umbian Exposition. For ten months there- 
after he was assistant engineer in the 
testing department of the Pope Manufac- 
turing Co., Hartford, Conn., in which he 
had entire charge of all steel analyses for a 
manufacturing establishment which bought 
strictly on specification, and also had charge 
of physical tests and investigations into 
bearings, friction, strength, and all parts 
under peculiar stress in special articles of 
manufacture, and particularly work on very 
elaborate tests in the matter of chemical 
and physical Cjualities of cold-drawn seamless 
steel tubing. For eleven months he was in 
the bridge and construction department ot 
the Pennsylvania Steel Co., engaged in 
draughting, bridge and structural work, es- 
timate and cost, and erection work. He then 
spent four months in New York, first in a 
private undertaking, and then examining 
data concerning copper, gold and platinum 
mines, and similar subjects; also assisting on 
erection work for a steel buildings con- 
tractor in New York. In December, 1895, 
he entered the employ of the Pope Manufac- 
turing Co. as engineering and general assist- 



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ant to the vice-president. Since that date 
his work has gradually concentrated on the 
patent work of the company, specializing in 
the general subject of road propulsion, and 
he had the oversight of all the automobile 
patent matters in connection with his other 
duties. Early in 1896 his attention was 
particularly attracted to the now famous 
Selden gasmobile patent, and he immediately 
started careful search, and historical, tech- 
nical study, drawing his company's atten- 
tion to the matter. This resulted ulti- 
mately in their acquiring the control of these 
basic automobile patent rights, through the 
considerate and broad-minded and able 
handling of which by the companies with 
which he was successively associated it 
formed a basis for broad patent protection 
for this new industry. This wholesome 
patent protection promises well for the rapid 
and healthy development of an industry, en- 
joyed by all the able manufacturers inter- 
ested, as compared with the prevalent single- 
head monopolies which have become so 
numerous in our manufacturing enterprises 
in the last fifteen years. The Selden patent 
is now looked upon as marking the third 
great epoch in mechanical land propulsion. 

He is now devoting half his time to the 
Electric Vehicle Co., of Hartford, and the 
other half to the Association of Licensed 
Automobile Manufacturers, and has his office 
in New York. He is making a specialty of 
what he terms " manufacturing patents man- 
aging," and is rendering services as an ex- 
pert in this special branch of a combination 
of engineering and patent work. 

On December 14, 1899, he was duly reg- 
istered in the United States Patent Office 
as attorney, and entitled to practise before 
that office. 

At the outbreak of the Spanish-American 
War, as an officer in the Second Division of 
the Connecticut Naval Battalion, he volun- 
teered for service, and after examination at 
Niantic was commissioned in June, 1898. 
He served as ensign, including, besides 
watch duty, engineering and paymaster's 
work on the U. S. S. " Sylvia." The " Syl- 
via " went south in July, and was stationed 
at Key West and on the Havana blockade. 
His service concluded in three months with 
an honorable discharge at the close of the 
war. Thereafter he was appointed naviga- 



tor on the staff of the Connecticut Naval 
Battalion. He resigned in October, 1899, 
after four years' service in the State Naval 
Militia. He has patents taken out for the 
following: Design of crank-shaft bracket, 
1897; velocipede, 1898; gear-cutting ma- 
chine, 1899; device for indicating condition 
of storage batteries, 1900; a gear-cutting 
machine, 1901, and automobile-controlling 
mechanism, 1903. He has applications pend- 
ing for patents for other inventions. He is a 
member of the Engineers', Transportation, 
Automobile Trade, Hartford, and Hartford 
Canoe clubs, of the Automobile Club of 
America, and of the Hartford Scientific So- 
ciety. He was formerly a member of the 
New York Athletic Club. 

Mr. Cuntz is the son of Emil A. H. and 
Frances (Cooper) Cuntz. His father's 
family were all German, and were prom- 
inent in commercial, legal, educational, and 
also, to some extent, in engineering affairs. 
His mother's family were scientists and 
merchants. His grandfather Cooper was an 
eminent naturalist, and his great-granduncle, 
Samuel Wilson, of Troy, N. Y., was proba- 
bly the original " Uncle Sam." Mr. Cuntz 
married Frieda Jenny Sophie Moldenhauer 
(now deceased), March 14, 1900. One child, 
Frieda Frances Cuntz, was born to them. 

Cuntz, John Henry (M.E., '87), was born 
in Hoboken, N. J., August 9, 1866; brother 
of the preceding. He graduated from the 
Hoboken Academy in 1881. Previous to 
entering the Institute in 1886, he was gradu- 
ated from the Rensselaer Polytechnic Insti- 
tute, Troy, N. Y., in 1886, with the degree 
of Civil Engineer. He was employed for 
a time at Edison's Laboratory at Orange, 
N. J., and then as graduate assistant at the 
Stevens Institute. Later he entered Yale 
University as a graduate student. During 
the war with Spain he served as ensign in 
the United States Navy. He is now with 
The Engineering Magazine of New York. 
He is a member of the American Associa- 
tion for the Advancement of Science, an 
associate member of the American Institute 
of Electrical Engineers, and a fellow of the 
American Geographical Society. 

Cuntz, William Cooper (M.E., '92), was 
born in Hoboken, N. J., January 21, 1871 ; 



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brother of Hermann Francis and John Henry 
Cuntz. He was with the Pennsylvania Steel 
Co., at Steelton, Pa., as draughtsman in the 
bridge and construction department, 1892- 
93; in charge of outside construction, 1893- 
96 (train-shed of the Boston & Maine Rail- 
road station at Boston, Mass., the Boston 
Subway, and other work in New England) ; 
attached to the Boston office as engineer for 
New England for the bridge and construc- 
tion department' during this period and until 
1897; assistant to sales agent in the Boston 
office, 1897-1900; attached to the London 
office, 1900-01 ; and assistant to the general 
manager of sales, with the same company, at 
Philadelphia, 1902-03. Since January i, 
1904, he has been sales agent in the office at 
Steelton, Pa. He is a member of the Boston 
Society of Civil Engineers. 

Dale, Orton Goodwin (M.E., '93), was 
born at Helensburgh, Scotland, November 8, 
1870. He was draughtsman for the Na- 
tional Sugar Refinery, Yonkers, N. Y., 1893- 
95 ; in the New York office of the B. F. 
Sturtevant Co., 1895; inspector for the Mu- 
tual Fire Insurance Co., New York, 1895-96, 
until the dissolution of their inspection de- 
partment; draughtsman with the C. W. Hunt 
Co., 1896; salesman for J. W. Hoffman & 
Co., New York and Philadelphia, 1896-97; 
and has been engineer witli the John A. 



is at Frenchman's Bay, Me. (A view of this 
is shown herewith.) This plant has a stor- 
age capacity of 10,000 tons, and a handling 
capacity from colliers to storage of 160 tons 




O. G. Dale 

per hour for each tower, and a handling 
capacity from storage to war-vessels of 250 
tons per hour. Another prominent coal- 
storage plant installed by Mr. Dale for the 
Mead Company is that at the Navy Yard, 
Washington, D. C. Mr. Dale is a member 




Mead Manufacturing Co 
coal-handling machinery, from 1897 to date. 
A number of prominent coaling-stations 
have been designed and installed under Mr. 
Dale's directions, the principal one of which 



O. G. Dale 
manufacturers of of the American Society of Mechanical En- 



gineers, and of the Engineers' Club, of New 
York. 

The subject of this sketch is the son of 
James Jeffrey and Mary H. (Goodwin) Dale, 



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of Scotch and English descent. He married 
Amy Slade, February 12, 1896, and they 
have three children, Orton Goodwin, Amy 
Lane, and Frederick Slade Dale. 

Dalrymple, Francis Clewell (M.E., '02), 
was born in Hoboken, N. J., February 11, 




F. C. Dalrymple 

1878; son of James M. and Kate R. Dal- 
rymple. 

Danziger, Jacob C. (M.E., '89), was 
draughtsman with the Atlantic Refining Co., 
Point Breeze, Philadelphia, 1889-90; was 
employed in the physical laboratory, and 
later as night superintendent, of the blast- 
furnaces of the Bethlehem Iron Co., Bethle- 
hem, Pa., 1890-95 ; a consulting engineer in 
Detroit, 1895-97; consulting engineer and 
contractor 1897-1900; and from 1900 to date 
has been a member of the firm of Cowles & 
Danziger, manufacturers of steel barrels un- 
der United States patents granted to them. 

Darbee, William (M.E., '97), was assistant 
engineer with the Kings County Electric 
Light- & Power Co., Brooklyn, N. Y., 1897- 
98; local manager of the Connecticut Light- 
ing & Power Co., South Norwalk, Conn., 
1898-1901; and has been connected with the 
Connecticut Railway & Lighting Co., Bridge- 
port, Conn., from 1901 to date. He is a 
member of the Tau Beta Pi fraternity. 



Darby, John (M.E., '91), was draughts- 
man in the ordnance department at the 
Washington Navy Yard, 1891-92; held a 
similar position with the Link-Belt Engi- 
neering Co., New York, 1892 ; and later be- 
came a member of the firm of Wolcott & 
Darby, mechanical engineers, Hartford, 
Conn. Some of the firm work carried on 
under Mr. Darby's personal supervision was 
the making of extensive topographical sur- 
veys for the Hartford Park Commission, and 
making plans and estimates and drawing up 
specifications for work in the park system, 
also the designing of special automatic ma- 
chinery and the development of inventions. 
In September, 1899, Mr. Darby went to Har- 
risburg, Pa., where he took the position of 
chief draughtsman for the Harrisburg 
Foundry & Machine Works in that city. 
He held this post until December, 1901, when 
he was transferred to New York, with the 
title of chief engineer, attached to the New 
York office. 

Dashiell, Wm. W. (M.E., '79), was em- 
ployed in the engineering department of the 
American Steamship and International Nav- 
igation companies at Philadelphia and Jersey 
City, 1879-85 ; was secretary and superintend- 
ent of the Bayonne & Greenville Gas Light 
Co., Bergen Point, N. J., 1885-88; mechani- 
cal expert with the firm of Swan & Finch, 
New York, 1888-90; consulting engineer 
and mechanical expert in New York, 1890- 
91 ; and consulting engineer and expert in 
lubrication. New York, 1892-93. He Ijecame 
a member of the firm of W. W. Dashiell & 
Co., New York, dealing in motive power and 
machinery supplies in 1893, and is still en- 
gaged in this business. He has been vice- 
president and general manager of the New 
York Lubricating Oil Co. since 1893, and 
vice-president of the Bayway Refining Co. 
since 1900. He is a member of the Ameri- 
can Society of Mechanical Engineers and of 
the Engineers' Club, of New York. 

Dates, F. D. (M.E., '97), was employed 
in the consolidated works of the Gas Engine 
& Power Co. and Charles L. Seabury & Co., 
yacht builders, at Morris Heights, N. Y., 
1897-1900; and has been with the Robins 
Conveying Belt Co., New York, from 1900 
to date. 



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Davey, Warren (M.E., '97), was born in 
Jersey City, N. J., March 17, 1876. He was 
draughtsman for Colgate & Co., Jersey City, 
1897-98; foreman with WilHam E. Upte- 
grove & Bro., New York, 1898-99; assistant 
engineer with the Findlay, Fort Wayne, & 
Western Railroad, Findlay, O., 1899; super- 
intendent of the Findlay Crushed Stone Co., 
1899-1900; and has been superintendent for 
Carl H. Schultz, Inc., manufacturer of artifi- 
cial mineral waters. New York, from 1900 
to date. He is a junior member of the Afiier- 
ican Society of Mechanical Engineers and 
a member of the Hudson County University 
and New York Railroad clubs. 

Mr. Davey is the son of Edmund H. and 
Emma (Stiles) Davey. He married Celeste 
A. Abrams, February 7, 1903. 

Davis, H. R. (M.E.. '98), was an instructor 
in boiler-testing during the Supplementary 
Term at Stevens Institute, 1898; was in the 
employment of W. S. Rockwell & Co., New 
York, designers and builders of metallurgi- 
cal furnaces, 1898-1900; vice-president of 
the Rockwell Engineering Co. igoo-04; and 
is now with the Gorham Manufacturing Co., 
Providence, R. I. He is a member of the 
Tau Beta Pi fraternity. 

Davis, Jesse Andrew (M.E., '91), was 
born in South Amboy, N. J., December 6, 
1870; son of Andrew J. and Amanda Wood- 
hull (Houston) Davis. He served with the 
Baltimore & Ohio Railroad under the general 
superintendent of motive power, Baltimore, 
Md., 1891-97; was engaged for two years in 
the draughting-room, reporting to the me- 
chanical engineer of the road; two years on 
inspection duty, reporting to the engineer 
of tests, and the rest of the time on experi- 
mental work and inspection of cars building 
by the Michigan Peninsula Car Co., and of 
locomotives building at the Baldwin Loco- 
motive Works. He was engaged on steel 
inspection duty for the United States Navy 
Department, 1897-1900, during which time 
he was detailed to the Midvale Steel Co. 
while manufacturing the machinery forgings 
for the battleships " Kearsarge," " Ken- 
tucky," and " Alabama ; " to the Shelby Tube 
Co. on seamless steel tubes for torpedo-boats 
and torpedo-boat destroyers; and the Penn- 
sylvania Steel Co., and Central Iron & Steel 



Co., on material for a floating steel dry- 
dock for Algiers, La. From 1900 to date 




J. A. Davis 

he has been in the sales department of the 
Pennsylvania Steel, Maryland Steel, and 
Central Iron & Steel companies, with head- 
quarters at Baltimore, Md., under the man- 
agement of R. C. Hoffman & Co., sales 
agents for the Southern States. He is a 
member of the Franklin Institute, the Ameri- 
can Society of Mechanical Engineers, the 
Harrisburg Club, Harrisburg, Pa., and the 
Baltimore Country Club, Baltimore, Md. 

Daw, William Lawrence (M.E., '01), was 
born in New York in 1878; son of William 
E. and Emily (Parker) Daw. He was an 
electrician with the General Electric Co., 
Lynn, Mass., in 1901 ; electrician with the 
New York & New Jersey Telephone Co., 
Brooklyn, N. Y., 1901 ; draughtsman for the 
W. & A. Fletcher Co., Hoboken, N. J., 1901- 
03 ; and is at present inspector for the Mid- 
dle States Inspection Bureau, New York. 
He is a member of the Phi Sigma Kappa 
fraternity. 

Dawes, H. F. (M.E., "79), was employed 
in the Mason Machine Shops, Taunton, 
Mass., 1879-80; with the Fairmount Shafter 
Mining Co., Idaho Springs, Colo., 1880-82; 
as superintendent of mine at Riley, Inyo 
County, Cal., 1882-83; "(no record from 



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1883-85) ; located at Englevvood, N. J., 1885- 
86; was chemist with the Port Henry Steel 
& Iron Co., 1886-87; and later chemist at 
Englewood, N. J. He is not now engaged 
in any active business. 

Dawes, Lewis C. (M.E., '83), was from 
1891 to 1901 editor of the " Metal Worker," 
New York, having been engaged in an edi- 
torial capacity from the time of his gradua- 
tion until his retirement in the last-named 
year. He is not engaged in business at the 
present time. 

Dawson, Edgar R. (M.E., '88), is not en- 
gaged in active business. His home is in 
Baltimore, Md. 



department of the De Lamater Iron Works, 
1888; and with the George F. Blake Manu- 
facturing Co., as engineer and salesman, 
1888-90. He then studied law and was ad- 
mitted as an attorney-at-law in New Jersey 
in 1896. Since that time he has taken out 
many United States and foreign patents and 
has been engaged in expert mechanical work. 
He now practises as attorney-at-law and so- 
licitor of patents in New York. He is the 
designer of special transfer cranes in suc- 
cessful operation for foundry work. He con- 
tributed an article on " Artesian Wells " to 
the Stevens Indicator, XIII, 298. His the- 
sis on " The Theory and Manufacture of 
Springs " was published in Van Nostrand's 
Engineering Magazine, May and June, 1878. 



Dear, William Yerrington (M.E., '93), 
was born in Jersey City, N. J., December 
10, 1872. For a short time after graduation 
he served an apprenticeship in a printing- 
shop as feeder and pressman, and then went 
out to solicit business. He has been sales- 
man for the Jersey City Printing Co., since 
1893 and has been secretary from 1901 to 
date. For the past three years he has given 
special attention to the manufacturing of 
memorandum calendar pads, for which he 
has designed, constructed, and patented a 
machine for collecting the leaves into a pad. 
This machine was built in the company's 
own machine-shop under Mr. Dear's per- 
sonal supervision. He has since been en- 
gaged in the construction of another machine 
for feeding paper to a punch and delivering 
the same. He is a member of the University 
Club, of Jersey City. 

Mr. Dear is the son of Joseph A. and 
Kate Barber Dear. He married May B. 
Burgett, November 29, 1899. 

De Bonneville, Arthur A. (M.E., '78), 
was born in New York city February 15, 
1858. His early education was received in 
Hoboken Academy, Martha Institute, and 
Stevens High School. His first professional 
work was in the motive-power department 
of the Erie Railroad Co., at Buifalo, N. Y., 
and Susquehanna, Pa., 1878-83 ; with the 
De Lamater Iron Works, New York; de- 
signing steam pumps, hot-air engines, gas- 
engines, and a general line of machinery, 
1883-88; and in charge of the gas-engine 




A. A. De Bonneville 

He is a member of Zeredatha Lodge 131, 
Free and Accepted Masons, Jersey City, N. J. 
Mr. De Bonneville is the son of Arthur A. 
and Laura (Decking) De Bonneville. He 
married Wilhelmina E. Hubbe, August 9, 
1888. One child, Wilhelmina Hubbe De 
Bonneville, has blessed this union. 

De Camp, Lyon (M.E., '00), spent several 
months abroad after graduation, and upon 
his return engaged in his present occupation 
in the lumber business at Fulton Chain, 
Herkimer County, N. Y. 

He married Beatrice Sprague, March i, 
1905. 



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Decker, Edwin Lanson (M.E., '96), was 
born in Newark, N. J., November 14, 1873. 
He served with Frederick N. Taff (M.E., 
'95) as road contractor, 1896; was employed 
at the Lucy Furnaces of the Carnegie Steel 
Co., 1896-97; and is now secretary, treasurer, 
and general manager of the Uehling-Decker 
Co., and of the Friction Door Check Manu- 
facturing Co., both of which have factories 
located at Passaic, N. J. In June.^iSgB, he 
read a paper before the Franklin Institute, 
Philadelphia, on " The Flow of Air Through 




E. L. Decker 

Small Apertures as Applied to the Measure- 
ment of High Temperatures and Analysis of 
Gas." 

Mr. Decker is the son of Edwin B. and 
Mary Phillips Decker. He married Bertha 
Chedister Thompson, February 16, 1898, and 
they have two children, Lewis Thompson 
and Mary Phillips Decker. 

Decker, Rudolph J. (M.E., '99), was em- 
ployed in the Philadelphia works of the Mid- 
vale Steel Co., in 1899; with the Buffalo 
Forge Co., Buffalo, N. Y., in charge of the 
engine department, 1899-1900; at the Holley 
Pump Works, Lockport, N. Y., 1900; as 
mechanical engineer for the mines and smel- 
ter of the Montana Ore-Purchasing Co., 
Butte, Mont, 1900; and in the construction 
department of the new smelter of the Ana- 
conda Copper Mining Co., Anaconda, Mont., 



1900-01. He has been a consulting and con- 
tracting engineer at Salt Lake City, Utah, 
from 1901 to date. In 1899 he was granted 
a patent for the drying of pulp, incident to 
the manufacture of beet sugar. He is a 
member of the Montana Society of Engi- 
neers. 

De Gress, Francis Barrett (M.E., '91), 
was born in Hoboken, N. J., June 22, 1869. 
He lived in Mexico from 1875 to 1881, and 
went to Bonn, Germany, in 1882, remaining 
there at school for three years. He entered 
the employ of the Crocker- Wheeler Co. in 
1 89 1. The following year he was placed in 
charge of the testing and inspecting depart- 
ment, and continued this work for four 
years, when he was transferred to the sales 
department as ofifice engineer, and shortly 
after was attached to the New York office of 
the company. He remained in New York for 
three years, when in 1899 he was placed in 
charge of the Pittsburg, Pa., branch office. 
On October i, 1901, he was again transferred 
to the New York office, this time as mana- 
ger. While acting as office engineer and 
manager he had charge of the electrical 
equipment of several plants where Crocker- 
Wheeler apparatus was used, among them 
the New Jersey Zinc Co., Hazard, Pa. ; Post 
& McCord, Greenpoint, N. Y. ; the National 
Tube Co., McKeesport, Pa. ; and the Col- 
liery Engineer Co., Scranton, Pa. He has 
translated, from the German, Dr. Arnold's 
" Armature Windings ; " the translation be- 
ing published by the Van Nostrand Co. He 
is a member of the Chi Psi fraternity. 

Mr. De Gress is the son of Francis and 
Isabella Stafford (Greene) De Gress. His 
family name was originally Gress. His 
great-grandfather was chief justice of the 
Supreme Court in Wetzlar, and was created 
Baron of the Holy Roman Empire, with the 
prefix " von," in 1774. Members of his 
mother's family were among the first settlers 
in New England and Georgia. Mr. De Gress 
married Edith Cornwell Stodart, April 12, 
1894, and they have one child, Francis Bar- 
rett De Gress, Jr. 

De Hart, John S., Jr. (M.E., '90), was born 
in Jersey City, N. J., February 14, 1869. He 
prepared his graduation thesis on the re- 
sults of tests made on coal-handling machin- 



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ery as built by the Link-Belt Engineering 
Co., and after graduation engaged with this 
company at Nicetown, Pa., as draughtsman. 
His time there was devoted exclusively to 




J. S. De Hart, Jr. 

coal-handling" machinery as applied to equip- 
ments for railroads. Later he spent three 
months with the Henry Warden Co., of 
Germantown, Pa., in the estimating and 
testing department. Their work consisted in 
the manufacture of boilers and wrought-iron 
tanks. In the spring of 1891 he took a posi- 
tion with the Isbell-Porter Co. as draughts- 
man. Later he was detailed to construction 
work in various parts of the country, and 
now holds the position of president. He is 
a member of the Chi Psi fraternity. 

Mr. De Hart is the son of J. S. and M. F. 
De Hart. He married Katharine Seward. 
April 16, 1900, and they have one child, 
John Seward De Hart. 

Delamater, Oakley R. (M.E., '98), has 
been engaged in experimental work in New 
York since graduation. 

Da la Rosa, Francisco U. (M.E., '91), was 
topographical engineer for the State of 
Oaxaca, Mex.. 1891-93; superintendent of 
an electric-light plant in the city of Oaxaca, 
1893-94: engaged at the Washington Hotel, 
city of Mexico, 1894-95; and engineer for 
the " India Rubber Co., Limited, Mexico " 



1895-1900. He engaged in engineering 
work, 1900-01, and from the latter date to 
the present time has been employed in min- 
ing work and as consulting engineer for the 
Mexican Southern Mining Co. 

Demarest, Thomas W. (M.E., '88), was 
employed in the Department of Tests of the 
Stevens Institute with Prof. Denton, 1888, 
and with the Standard Oil Co., 1888-89. I" 
August of the latter year he engaged in the 
service of the Pennsylvania Lines West of 
Pittsburg, serving two years as special ap- 
prentice in the Columbus, O., shops; three 
months as shop and motive-power office 
draughtsman ; about six years in special 
work under the direction of the superin- 
tendent of motive power ; one year as assist- 
ant to the master mechanic and one and a 
half years as general foreman of the locomo- 
tive department at the Indianapolis shops of 
this company; five months as master me- 
chanic of the shops at Logansport, Ind. ; 
from January, 1900, to August, 1903, as su- 
perintendent of motive power of the South- 
West System, and since the latter date he 
has held the same office on the North-West 
System. Mr. Demarest has been actively 
engaged for several years in special and per- 
manent committee work for the Master Car- 
Builders' Association and also for the Mas- 
ter Mechanics' Association. 

Dent, Edward Linthicum (M.E., '84), was 
born in the old family residence, George- 
town Heights, D. C, July 5, 1861. His early 
education was received at Georgetown Col- 
lege and at Columbian University, where he 
was a student in both the preparatory and 
collegiate courses, receiving from the latter 
the degree of Bachelor of Science. He was 
an engineer and contractor for steam and 
power plants, 1885-90; manager and super- 
intendent of the E. L. Dent Iron Works, 
Washington, D. C, 1887-95; consulting en- 
gineer on structural and architectural iron 
work, 1895-96; estimator and designer for 
the Berlin Iron Bridge Co., 1896-97; me- 
chanical engineer and draughtsman with 
Morris, Tasker, & Co., New Castle, Del., 
1897-98; with the Westinghouse Electric 
& Manufacturing Co., Pittsburg, Pa., 1898- 
99. Jointly with H. F. Hayden, superinten- 
dent of the Water Department of the Dis- 



THE STEVENS INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY 



trict of Columbia, he took out a patent for a 
fire hydrant in 1889. This hydrant is now 
exckisively used in the District. While en- 
gaged as consulting engineer, as mentioned 
above, he did much for the government, in- 
cluding work on the United States Observa- 
tory at Washington, D. C. He was a mem- 
ber of the American Society of Mechanical 
Engineers, of the Metropolitan Club, of 
Washington, and of the Chi Phi fraternity. 
He died of typhoid fever at Wilkinsburg, Pa., 
October 19, 1899. His remains were brought 
home to Washington and buried in the fam- 
ily vault in Oak Hill Cemetery, Georgetown. 
Mr. Dent was the son of Josiah and 
Mary Katherine Dent. His ancestors, Eng- 
lish on both sides, settled in lower Mary- 
land. His grandfather, Edward Magruder 
Linthicum, endowed the Linthicum Institute 
of Georgetown, a night school for poor boys, 
in which the subject of this sketch founded 
a class in mechanical and architectural draw- 
ing, and taught it himself for a year, giving 
prizes for proficiency. He married Mary 
Gantt Taylor, April 23, 1889, and they had 



Denton, Waldo Emerson (M.E., '96), was 
born in Roslyn, L. L, September 4, 1875 ; 




three children, Edward Linthicum, Jr., Mary 
Katherine, and James Armistead Dent. 

Denton, James E. (M.E., '75), Professor 
of Engineering Practice at the Stevens In- 
stitute of Technology. For biography, see 
page 240. 




W. E. Denton 

son of George W. and Emma P. (Haskins) 
Denton. He is descended from Robert Has- 
kins, the first of the name to settle in the 
Colonies. John Haskins's daughter Ruth 
was the mother of Ralph Waldo Emerson. 
Mr. Denton in 1896 held a position under 
the city government of New York, and was 
employed in surveying streets in the upper 
part of the city. He then became a draughts- 
man in the machinery department of the 
Central Railroad of New Jersey, Jersey City, 
N. J., being advanced in 1900 to the position 
of chief draughtsman, having charge of the 
designing of new rolling-stock, shops, etc. 
He became representative of the Midvale 
Steel Co., with headquarters at its New York 
office, 1902; and in 1904 resigned to take a 
similar position, with the American Blower 
Co. He is a member of the New York Rail- 
road Club, and of the Tau Beta Pi fraternity. 

Dickerson, Walter Howell (M.E., '96), 
was born in Newark, N. J., December 8, 
1874; son of Lemuel F. and Sarah Jane 
Dickerson. He is of English descent, one 
branch of the family being among the earliest 
English settlers in America, and the other 
branch coming over considerably later, but 
previous to the Revolution. Both branches 
ultimately settled in New Jersey. 



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Young Dickerson received his early edu- 
cation in the pubHc schools of Newark, N. J., 
leaving the high school there to enter Ste- 
vens Preparatory School. After graduation 
he became mechanical engineer with the At- 
las Manufacturing Co., Newark, N. J., 1896- 
97; was associated with Mr. Charles E. 
Tripler, of New York, in the investigation of 
compressed and liquefied air, 1897-98; with 
the Canadian Rand Drill Co., Sherbrooke, 
Que., as draughtsman and engineer, 1898-99; 
assistant forge-master at the Midvale Steel 
Co.'s works, Philadelphia, 1899 ; was em- 
ployed in the laboratory of Thomas A. 
Edison, Orange, N. J., 1899-1900; engineer 
for the Tripler Liquid Air Co. at the 
Paris Exposition, 1900; and was engaged in 
special engineering work in England, 1900- 
01. He was next engaged with the American 
Can Co. at their machine-shop in Brooklyn, 
N. Y., 1901-02; as salesman with the Inter- 
national Steam Pump Co., 1902 ; as engineer 
for the Consohdated Liquid Air Co., New 
York, in the same year; and during 1903 




W. H. Dickerson 

was engineer for the Tripler Liquid Air Co., 
of New York. 

During the period 1896-98 he also did con- 
siderable investigation in the subject of high- 
pressure compressed air ; among other work 
making a complete test of a three-stage high- 
pressure air-compressor, compressing air to 
2,500 pounds to the square inch, and includ- 



ing indications of all the stages. This test 
was the first one of its kind made. At vari- 
ous times he also delivered several lectures 
upon the subject of liquid air. He wrote an 
article on " Liquid Air," which was pub- 
lished in the Stevens Institute Indicator, 
April, 1898. During the following year he 
experimented in the physical laboratory of 
Stevens Listitute and determined the latent 
heat of liquid air. Shortly after, he pre- 
pared an article on " Latent Heat of Evapo- 
ration of Liquid Air," which was published 
in the Stevens Institute Indicator, October, 
1899. Mr. Dickerson is a member of the 
Franklin Listitute, and of the New York 
Railroad Club. 

Dietz, Carl Frederick (M.E., '01), was 
born in New York February 12, 1880; son of 
Frederick Adolph and Caroline Dietz, both 
sides being originally German. He was em- 
ployed in the engineering department of the 
Hamburg-American Steamship Line, Ham- 
burg, Germany. From this department he 
was transferred to the S. S. " Pennsylvania " 
to do some practical work, and shipped as 
assistant for a voyage from Hamburg to 
New York and return. He then resigned 
his position and went to Berlin, where he 
enrolled in the Royal Technical High School, 
taking a course in land and marine engine 
and boiler designing. Having taken a year of 
postgraduate work, he returned to America, 
and for three months was with the United 
Telpherage Co., at their factory in Westfield, 
N. J. In January, 1903, he took a position 
with Mr. E. A. Uehling, M. E., (Stevens, 
'77) consulting engineer. New York, which 
position, as assistant to Mr. Uehling, he 
holds at the present time, being engaged 
principally in metallurgical engineering 
work. An article by him on " The Technical 
Schools of Germany " appeared in the Ste- 
vens Institute Indicator, October, 1902, and 
was reprinted in Electricity, November, 
1902. Mr. Dietz is a member of the " Verein 
Deutscher Ingenieure," a junior member of 
the American Society of Mechanical Engi- 
neers, and a member of the Phi Sigma 
Kappa and Theta Nu Epsilon fraternities. 

Dilworth, Walter G. (M.E., '79), was with 
Mr. G. S. Morrison, chief engineer of the 
Chicago, Burlington, & Quincy Railroad, 



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1879-80, acting as assistant engineer in 
charge of the construction of the bridge of 
this railroad over the Missouri River at 
Plattsmouth, Neb. He then became assist- 
ant engineer (1880-81) on the Yellowstone 
division of the Northern Pacific Railroad, 
in charge of the construction of the section 
of the road running from Miles City to 
Bozeman. In the latter year he established 
a real estate and surveying business, under 
the firm name of Dilworth-Yerkes, at Boze- 
man, Mont., and was elected county surveyor 
for Gallatin County, Mont., and laid out the 
streets in the town of Bozeman. While en- 
gaged in this work, an accident, due to a 
runaway horse, caused injuries which re- 
sulted in his death in October, 1882. 

He was the eldest son of William H. and 
Mary D. (Skinner) Dilworth, and was born 
in Hoboken, N. J., October 24, 1858. 

Dilworth, William S. (M.E., "85), was 
born in Hoboken, N. J., March 9, 1864. He 
has been connected with the firm of Gordon 
& Dilworth, manufacturers of table delica- 
cies, New York, since 1885. He is a mem- 
ber of the Roseville Athletic Club, Newark, 
N. J. ; past-regent of the Roseville Council, 
Royal Arcanum ; a vestryman of St. 
Thomas's Episcopal Church, Newark, N. J., 
and a member of the Sigma chapter of the 
Beta Theta Pi fraternity. 

The son of William H. and Mary D. 
(Skinner) Dilworth, he is a direct descend- 
ant of Capt. John Dilworth, R. N., who 
piloted the British fleet through the Dela- 
ware River to Philadelphia when that city 
was captured by the British, and soon after 
married Miss Aldrich, daughter of the Dutch 
governor of Delaware. Mr. Dilworth's 
mother is the daughter of Dr. Joshua Skin- 
ner, of North Carolina, and a descendant of 
William Bradford, printer, and contem- 
porary of Benjamin Franklin. Mr. Dilworth 
married Ida J. Crevier, December 15, 1886, 
at Mount Holly, N. J., and they have one 
boy, William Lee Dilworth. 

Dinkel, George (M.E., '88), was born in 
Boston, Mass., November 29, 1866. He was 
educated in the public schools of Jersey City, 
N. J., and after attending Stevens High 
School entered Stevens Institute. He en- 
tered the service of F. & O. Matthiessen & 



Wiechers in 1889, and has advanced to his 
present position as chief engineer with the 
American Sugar Refining Co., New York. 
He has taken out several important patents 
on sugar machinery, and is a member of the 
American Society of Mechanical Engineers. 
Mr. Dinkel is the son of George and Bar- 
bara Dinkel. He married Bertha Bauman 




George Dinkel' 

(since deceased), February 19, 1899. One 
child, Helen Dinkel (deceased), was the 
fruit of the union. 

Dix, Walter S. (M.E., '87), was born in 
Forestville, Chautauqua County, N. Y., June 
15, 1866; son of James Morse and Ophelia 
(King) Dix. He was employed in the shops 
and draughting-room of the E. W. Bliss Co., 
Brooklyn, N. Y., 1887-89; as chief draughts- 
man for the C & C Electric Co., New York, 
1889-93 ; in miscellaneous engineering work, 
1893-94; as' head-draughtsman with the 
Stanley Electric & Manufacturing Co., Pitts- 
field, Mass., 1894-95; assistant to the works 
engineer of the Royal Electric Co., Montreal, 
Que., manufacturers of Stanley apparatus 
under royalty for the Dominion, 1895-99; 
with Westinghouse, Church, Kerr, & Co., 
New York, 1 899-1 901 ; and from 1901 to date 
on the engineering" staff of Sanderson & 
Porter, engineers and contractors. New 
York. He has developed many patentable 
ideas in connection with his work, but has 



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taken out no patents. Several articles on 
mechanical and electrical subjects have been 




contributed by him to technical journals. 
He is an associate member of the American 
Institute of Electrical Engineers. 

Dixon, J. Alfred (M.E.. '91), was born 
in East Orange, N. J. In July, immediately 




J. A. Dixon 

after graduation, he entered the employ of 
the Pintsch Compressing Co., Nev^^ York, as 



assistant engineer, and for several months 
was engaged in the construction of special 
oil-gas plants. Early in 1892 he was made 
superintendent of the company's plant at 
Boston, where he remained for a year, and 
in 1893 succeeded to the position of engineer. 
In this capacity his duties included the de- 
signing and supervision of new plants, with 
their apparatus and machinery, and the op- 
eration of those already built. In 1902 he 
was appointed general superintendent. He 
is a member of the American Gas Light, and 
Western Gas Light associations. 

Mr. Dixon married in the year 1898. 

Dixon, Robert M. (M.E., '81), was born 
in East Orange, N. J., Sept. 19, i860. He 




R. M. Dixon 

was draughtsman for the Delaware Bridge 
Co. until 1883, when he entered the employ 
of the Pintsch Lighting Co. In 1888 he be- 
came engineer of the Safety Car Heating 
& Lighting Co., and manager of the Pintsch 
Compressing Co., and in 1902 vice-president 
of both companies. 

He has taken out about 50 patents for in- 
ventions. His lecture on " Railroad Car 
Lighting " before the Stevens Engineering 
Society, June 3, 1898, was published in the 
Stevens Indicator, October, 1890. He con- 
tributed an article on " The Combined Gas- 
light and Bell Buoy " to the Stevens Indi- 
cator, January, 1900. He is a member of 



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the American Society of Mechanical Engi- 
neers and of the American Gas Light Asso- 
ciation. 

Dodge, Robert M. (M.E., '99), was with 
the Brooklyn Rapid Transit Co., Brooklyn, 
N. Y., 1899-1902; and from thence to date 
has been in the dranghting department of the 
General Electric Co., Schenectady, N. Y. 

Doty, Paul (M.E., '88), was born in Ho- 
boken, N. J., May 30, 1867. He entered the 
service of the United Gas Improvement Co., 
Philadelphia, in July, 1888, as cadet engi- 
neer, and was assigned to the Paterson 
(N. J.) Gas Works in January, 1889, as as- 




sistant engineer, being also, during the same 
year, assistant engineer at the Jersey City 
Gas Works on special work in distribution 
and construction. He returned to the Pater- 
son Gas Works, and was appointed assistant 
superintendent, in January, 1890, continuing 
at Paterson until December, 1895. While 
with the United Gas Improvement Co., he 
prepared reports and discussions on the fol- 
lowing subjects for the annual meetings of 
the superintendents of the company : " The 
Governor Burner ;" " Services and Their 
Appurtenances;" "Steam in a Lowe Set;" 
"Care of Boilers and Machinery;" "Hand- 
ling a Distribution Force;" "Locating and 
Repairing Street Main Leaks;" "Notes on 



the Manufacture of Oxide of Iron," — and 
other special tests and reports. 

In December, 1895, ^^ was appointed gen- 
eral manager of the newly organized Con- 
solidated Gas Co. of New Jersey, a cor- 
poration controlling the gas and electric 
interests in Long Branch and vicinity, in- 
cluding Red Bank and Asbury Park. The 
plan of consolidation required the erection of 
a complete gas-manufacturing plant, also a 
novel distribution system. This work was 
accomplished and put in successful opera- 
tion under Mr. Doty's direction in ninety 
days from the beginning of the work, and 
included many important contracts. He con- 
tinued as general manager of the Consoli- 
dated Gas Co. about two years, when he was 
called in December, 1897, to represent Mr. 
Emerson McMillin, of the Consolidated Gas 
Co., in the organization of the gas companies 
at Buffalo, N. Y. His work having been sat- 
isfactorily accomplished in the latter city, 
he went to Grand Rapids, Mich., March i, 
1898, as general manager of the Gas Light 
Co. there, and in April, 1901, he accepted 
the position of general manager of the De- 
troit City Gas Co., Detroit, Mich., and the 
following month he was elected to the of- 
fices of secretary and director of the com- 
pany. 

While at Detroit Mr. Doty planned and 
directed the building of a new works hav- 
ing a daily capacity of 2,500,000 cubic feet 
of carburetted water-gas at Station B ; a 
new works at Station A, with an ultimate 
daily capacity of 4,000,000 cubic feet of coal- 
gas ; and a purifying and pumping plant at 
Delray, with a daily capacity of 6,000,000 
cubic feet of coke-oven coal-gas. The com- 
pletion of these works, together with the 
task of laying street mains incident to the 
development of the property of the Detroit 
City Gas Co., required the disbursement of 
upward of $2,000,000. Since September i, 
1903, Mr. Doty has been vice-president and 
general manager (as well as manager for 
the receiver) of the Denver Gas & Electric 
Co., Denver, Colo. 

The subject of Mr. Doty's thesis, " Report 
of Test of Naphtha Engine," was published 
in abstract in the Iron Age, July, 1888, and 
was also included in Prof. Wood's Ther- 
tnodynainics, pp. 246-254 (second ed., 1888). 
The Progressive Age for December, 1895, 



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contains a comment by Mr. Doty on " The 
Commercial Value of Photometry," a paper 
presented by Mr. Alexander C. Humphreys, 
'8i, to the American Gas Light Association. 
In 1897 Mr. Doty read a paper on " Burner 
Stoppages " before the American Gas Light 
Association ; in 1899, a paper on " The 
Causes Underlying the Formation of Naph- 
thalene, and Their Prevention," before the 
Western Gas Association; in 1900, a paper 
on " Meter Testing," before the Michigan 
Gas Association; and in 1901, a paper on the 
" Analysis of Gas Accounts," for the Ameri- 
can Gas Light Association. 

He is a member of the American Gas 
Light Association (member of the Council 



tion, 1902 (re-elected 1903) ; member of the 
Detroit Club, of the Municipal League, 
and Chamber of Commerce ; deputy governor 
of the Society of Mayflower Descendants 
in Michigan, of the Society of Colonial 
Wars, and of the Caledon Mountain Trout 
Club. He is permanent secretary of the 
Class of '88, Stevens Institute. 

Mr. Doty is the son of W. H. H. and Anna 
(Langevin) Doty, and is seventh in descent 
from Edward Doty, Pilgrim passenger in the 
" Mayflower " in 1620, who took part in the 
" First Encoimter " in 1620, and was a mem- 
ber of Capt. Miles Standish's first military 
compan}', at Plymouth, Mass., in 1621. The 
subject of this sketch married Theodosia 




Detroit City Gas Co. — Station A. 
Paul Doty 



1900-01 ) ; director of the Western Gas 
Association during the years 1902 and 
1903, and second vice-president 1903-04; as- 
sociate member of the American Institute 
of Electrical Engineers ; member of the 
American Association for the Advancement 
of Science and of the American Academy of 
Political and Social Science ; ex-president 
of the Michigan Gas Association, 1902; 
member of the American Society of Mechan- 
ical Engineers, and of the St. John's Protes- 
tant Episcopal Church, Detroit; ex-trustee 
of the Union Benevolent Hospital, Grand 
Rapids, Mich.; ex-director of the National 
City Bank, Grand Rapids, Mich.; president 
of the McMillin Gas Companies' Associa- 



Stiles, only daughter of Gen. I. N. Stiles, 
U. S. V. (1861-65), February 10, 1892, at 
Chicago, 111. 

Dougherty, Wm. M. (B.S., "78), has been 
engaged in the profession of law since grad- 
uation, in Jersey City and Hoboken, N. J. 

Doughty, William F. (M.E., '97), was 
draughtsman with the New York Sugar Re- 
fining Co., Long Island City, N. Y., 1897- 
99 ; with the International Paper Co., New 
York, 1899-1900; and has been with the New 
York & Boston Dyewood Co., Brooklyn, 
N. Y., 1900 to date. He received the degree 
of LL.B. from New York University in 1902. 



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Douglas, Edwin Rust(M.E., "93), was born 
in Brandon, Vt., September 26, 1872. He 
attended school in New York city, at White 
Plains, N. Y., and at Alfred University, Al- 
fred, N. Y., before entering Stevens School 
in 1888. Immediately on completion of his 
thesis in 1893, and before graduation, he be- 
gan work for the Howe Scale Co., Rutland, 
Vt., as blue-print boy and helper in the 
draughting-room, and in a short time be- 
came draughtsman, a position he retained 
for two years. In the winter of 1894-95 
eyesight troubles forced him to give up 
draughting, and he undertook a postgraduate 
course in physics and mathematics at Har- 
vard, entering the Graduate School in the 
following fall. During the simimer of 1897 
he obtained a position with the Crocker- 
Wheeler Co., manufacturers and electrical 
engineers. Ampere, N. J., which led to a 
later permanent alliance. During his last 
year at Harvard he gave instruction, as an 
assistant, in the Jefferson Physical Labo- 
ratory. In the spring of 1898 Mr. Douglas 
decided on a line of special study to be made 
the subject of a thesis for the degree of Doc- 
tor of Science, and devised a method for de- 
termining the specific heats of gases at high. 




E. R. Douglas 



though constant, pressure, and at tempera- 
tures approaching the point of dissociation. 
Owing to the expense of necessary appa- 
ratus, the danger involved in the experiments, 



which would have occupied a period of two 
years, and also to the fact that he was of- 
fered a desirable permanent position with the 
Crocker-Wheeler Co., and that he desired ul- 
timately to enter the field of engineering 
rather than that of pure physics, he relin- 
quished his hopes of the doctorate, but pre- 
sented more than the full requirements for, 
and obtained the degree of, Master of Sci- 
ence, given for the first time that year. 

During the summer of 1898 he was en- 
gaged in draughting and similar work for 
the Crocker- Wheeler Co., and in the fall he 
commenced in its laboratory a series of ex- 
periments on the properties of armatures 
and on commutation, on which he was en- 
gaged for about two years with occasional 
interrupting periods given to other matters, 
such as the design of motors and generators, 
a detailed investigation into the cost of man- 
ufacture of the company's product, helping 
to devise and put in operation a new stock- 
accounting and cost-keeping system, etc. 
Since the beginning of 1901 his attention 
has been increasingly given to shop instal- 
lations and electric power for factories. He 
has been closely identified with mechanical 
and electrical equipment, from the power 
side, of the shops of the American Locomo- 
tive Co., Richmond Works; the William 
R. Trigg Shipbuilding Co. ; the Lake Shore 
& Michigan Southern Railway, at Colling- 
wood; the Pittsburg & Lake Erie Railroad, 
at Pittsburg; the American Bridge Co., at 
Pencoyd; the Jeanesville Iron Works at 
Jeanesville, Pa. ; the IngersoU- Sergeant Drill 
Co., at Easton, Pa. ; the Ansonia Brass & 
Copper Co., at Ansonia, Conn. ; the Allis- 
Chalmers Co., at Chicago ; and others. In 
these the Crocker-Wheeler system of fac- 
tory driving, with the development of which 
Mr. Douglas has been closely connected, has 
been employed. 

Of the articles contributed by Mr. Douglas 
to the technical journals, the following are 
the most important : 

"A Historical and Descriptive Review of 
Acetylene," Stevens Institute Indicator, July, 
1897. 

"The Design -of Oil Slings," American Ma- 
chinist, June 21, 1900. 

"Some Thermodynamic FormuljB, Consider- 
ing the Specific Heat a Function of the Tem- 
perature," Stevens Institute Indicator, October, 
1900. 



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"The Heating of Electrical Machinery Under 
Two or More Regularly Alternating Conditions 
of Load," Electrical World and Engineer, May 
II, 1901. 

"Theory and Design of Mechanical Brakes," 
American Machinist, December 19-26, 1901. 

Mr. Douglas is a member of the Harvard 
Graduates' and M. P. clubs, of Boston. 

The son of Orlando Benajah and Mary 
Ann (Rust) Douglas, on his father's side, he 
is ninth in descent from William Douglas, 
English, of Scotch descent, who landed at 
Boston in 1640. On his mother's side he is 
ninth descendant from Henry Rust, English, 
of Norse descent, who landed at Hingham, 
Mass., in 1633. Mr. Douglas married Caro- 
line Estelle Sleeper, July 12, 1899, and they 
have one child, Dorothy Douglas. 

Dow, Alexander (M.E., '91), has been 
connected with the Dow Type Composing 
Co., New York, and practises as a mechani- 
cal engineer in that city. 

Dow, B. P. (M.E., '76), died in 1878, and 
no record of his career from the time of his 
graduation has been obtainable. 

Dreyfus, Theodore Frank (M.E., '98), 
was born in Brookhaven, Miss., March 22, 
1878; son of Maurice and Pauline Dreyfus. 
His parents and ancestry are German. At 
the outbreak of the war with Spain he en- 
listed as a first-class fireman (May 17, 1898) 
in the New Jersey Naval Reserves, and soon 
afterward received a warrant as first-class 
water-tender. He served during the entire 
war, seeing considerable service in Cuba, and 
was mustered out October 7, 1898. In the 
following December, he entered the employ 
of the Illinois Central Railroad Co. at Chi- 
cago, 111., as draughtsman in the office of 
the superintendent of motive power. The 
following year he was transferred to the 
Burnside shops of the same company where 
he began a special apprenticeship of two 
years. During the year 1901 he was em- 
ployed as a machinist in the backshop and 
roundhouse of the Illinois Central Railroad 
Co., at Burnside. From September i, 1901, 
to July 14, 1902, he was motive-power in- 
spector with the Pittsburg, Cincinnati, Chi- 
cago, & St. Louis Railroad, Columbus, O. 
From July 14, 1902, to February 16, 



1903, he was general foreman in the 
Lancaster shops of the Cincinnati & Mus- 
kingum Valley Railroad, Lancaster, O., 
and later general foreman in the loco- 




T. F. Dreyfus 

motive and car department of the Pen- 
dleton shops of the Pittsburg, Cincinnati, 
Chicago, & St. Louis Railroad, Cincinnati, 
O. Since August i, 1903, he has been gen- 
eral foreman of the Erie and Ashtabula 
Division of the Northwest System of the 
Pennsylvania Lines West of Pittsburg. He 
is a member of the Western Railway Club, 
the Railway Club of Pittsburg, of the Tau 
Beta Pi fraternity, and a junior member of 
the American Society of Mechanical Engi- 
neers. 

Dreyspring, Ernest (M.E., '85), was with 
the New York Plough Co., Yonkers, N. Y., 
1885-86, and from the latter year to date 
has been connected with the Williamson Iron 
Co., Birmingham, Ala. 

Drummond, Edwin May (M.E., '88), was 
born at Louisville, Ky., May i, 1867. Since 
his graduation he has had charge of the 
mechanical department of the Drummond 
Manufacturing Co., Louisville, Ky., whose 
product consists of high-grade wagon and 
buggy axles. Under his management qual- 
ity has been developed and improved, and 
cost of production materially reduced, and 



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THE STEVENS INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY 



a steadily increasing demand has grown for 
the company's product from local to national 
proportions. While in college Mr. Drum- 
mond displayed an active interest in practi- 
cal engineering subjects and was one of the 
five founders of the Stevens Engineering 
Society. He is also one of the original mem- 
bers of the American Foundrymen's Asso- 
ciation, organized in Philadelphia, Pa., in 
May, 1896; a charter member of the Engi- 
neers' and Architects' Club of Louisville, 
Ky. ; a life member of the Polytechnic So- 
ciety of Kentucky ; and a member of the Beta 
Theta Pi fraternity. 

Mr. Drummond is the son of William 
Whyte and Alice Thompson Drummond. 
His father was born in Paisley, Scotland, of 
Scotch parents; his mother, of English par- 
entage, was born in Louisville, Ky. He 
married Carrie Dent Moon, May 2, 1889, 



Cambridgeport, Mass., 1890-91 ; in the ma- 
chine-shop and erecting department of the 




E. M. Drumjuond 

and they have four children, William Rus- 
sell, James Ainslie, Robert Pearce, and Alice 
May Drummond. 

Ducommun, Edward (M.E., '88), was born 
in Hoboken, N. J.,, May 8, 1868. He was 
engaged upon lubrication tests for the Cana- 
dian Pacific Railroad, in the interest of the 
Standard Oil Co., 1888-89; ^s draughtsman 
with the firm of Watson & Stillman, New 
York, 1889; with the Riker Pump Co., 1890; 
as draughtsman with Mr. E. D. Leavitt, Jr., 




El.WARU DuCUMMUiN- 

Henry R. Worthington Hydraulic Works, 
Brooklyn, N. Y., 1891-93 ; and has been 
assistant engineer for the American Sugar 
Refining Co., Jersey City, N. J., 1893 to date. 
He is a member of the American Society of 
Mechanical Engineers. 

Mr. Ducommun is the son of Jules and 
Henriette (Atrel) Ducommun (French on 
both sides). He married Amelia E. Mon- 
tague, April 26, 1893, 'i"d they have one 
child, Marguerite Ducommun. 

Durrie, Clarence Nicoll (M.E., '00), was 
born in Jersey City, N. J., October 30, 1879; 
son of William Augustus and Stella Eliza- 
beth (Nicoll) Durrie. On his father's side 
he is a direct descendant of William Brad- 
ford, first governor of Plymouth Colony. 
On his mother's side he is a direct descend- 
ant of Col. Richard Nicoll, first English gov- 
ernor of New York. He was assistant to 
Mr. Walter K. Freeman, consulting engi- 
neer on motive power, 1900, and upon the 
organization of the Hercules Motor Co. by 
Mr. Freeman, Mr. Durrie entered the shops 
and was soon made foreman in charge of the 
automobile work in all its branches, 1900- 
01. He was head draughtsman with the 
Model Machine Co., New York, 1901-02; 
and has held a similar position with the 



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Pierson-Sefton Co., Jersey City, N. J., de- 
signers, manufacturers and builders of hor- 
ticultural structures, from 1902 to date. He 
is a member of the University Club of 
Hudson County, N. J., of the Signal & Tel- 
egraph Corps, N. G. N. J., the Jersey City 



ter) Eastwood. He married 
Woodward, September 14, iS 



Louise 
58, and 



Neer 
they 




C. N. DUREIE 

Golf Club, the Jersey City Tennis Club, and 
of the Chi Phi fraternity. 

Eastwood, James (M.E., '89), was born in 
Paterson, N. J., December 11, 1867. His 
early education was received in the pubHc 
schools of Paterson. He prepared for col- 
lege at Stevens High School and secured 
one of two scholarships which were con- 
ferred in 1885. He has been with the B. 
Eastwood Foundry & Machine Works, Pat- 
erson, N. J., from 1889 to date, being super- 
intendent from 1 891 to 1899. In June of the 
latter year he organized the Benjamin East- 
wood Co., and was elected its president and 
treasurer, positions which he still holds. His 
whole time since graduation has been taken 
up in organization and improvements at the 
above works, including the design for a large 
modern foundry building and its equipment, 
which was built in 1899. He is a director of 
the Citizens Trust Co., Paterson, N. J., and 
a member of the Hamilton Club, of Pater- 
son, and of the Chi Psi fraternity. 

Mr. Eastwood is the son of native-born 
English parents, Benjamin and Sarah (Bax- 




James Eastwood 

have two children, Marion and Florence 
Eastwood. 

Ebsen, Henry L. (M.E., '89), was engaged 
in the superintending engineer's department 
of the International Navigation Co., New 
York, 1889-98; with the W. & A. Fletcher 
Co., Hoboken, N. J., 1898-1900; and has 
been consulting engineer in New York city 
from 1900 to date. He has contributed the 
following articles to technical journals: 
" The Indicator as Applied to Marine En- 
gines," Marine Engineering, April, May, 
and June, 1897; "Auxiliary Machinery of 
an Ocean Greyhound," Cassier's Magazine, 
VI, 369 ; " High-Pressure Indicator Dia- 
grams," Marine Engineering, June, 1898. 
He is a member of the Society of Naval 
Architects and Marine Engineers. 

Ebsen, Wm. A. (M.E., '90), was asso- 
ciated with Col. E. A. Stevens, president of 
the Hoboken Ferry Co., on the design of 
the double-screw ferryboats " Bremen " 
and " Hamburg," 1890-91. In this connec- 
tion he made experiments on ferryboats in 
commission, in order to determine whether 
they possessed sufficient stability for double- 
decking. He was next in the employ of the 
W. & A. Fletcher Co., Hoboken, mak- 



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THE STEVENS INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY 



ing drawings of engines and boilers of the 
new ferryboats mentioned above, and was 
engaged upon other work of the same char- 
acter 1891-94; was with the Geo. F. Blake 
Manufacturing Co.^ New York, as consult- 
ing and corresponding engineer, 1894-1902; 
and has been manager of sales for that com- 
pany and for the Knowles Steam Pump 
"Works from 1902 to date. 

Echeverria, Ricardo Jose (M.E., '89), was 
born in San Jose de Costa Rica, February 




R. J. Echeverria 

14, 1866. He has been a director of the 
American Bank at Guatemala, is now en- 
gaged in coffee and sugar planting, and is 
president and general manager of the Street 
Railway Co., of Guatemala, of which he is 
principal owner. He is a junior member of 
the American Society of Mechanical Engi- 
neers ; and a member of the International 
Club, Costa Rica ; of the American and 
Guatemala clubs in Guatemala, and of the 
Theta Delta Chi fraternity. 

Mr. Echeverria is the son of Francisco 
and Juana Aguilar de Echeverria. Both 
his father and his grandfather were respec- 
tively Secretary of War and Secretary of the 
Treasury in Costa Rica. He married Isa- 
bel Herrera, April 2, 1894, and five children, 
Maria Isabel, Ricardo Meguil, Margarita, 
Marta, and Eduardo Alberto Echeverria, 
have been born to them. 



Edmunds, James Fornance (M.E., '99), 
was born in Norristown, Pa., December i, 
1874; son of Frank H. and Kate (Fornance) 
Edmunds. He was with Burhorn & Gran- 
ger, engineers. New York and Philadelphia, 
1899-1901, and has been employed in the 
testing department of the General Electric 
Co., Schenectady, N. Y., from 1901 to date. 

Eicks, Carl Fanning (M.E., '02), was born 
in New York city, March 23, 1880; son of 
Casper H. and Joanna Fanning Eicks. He 
was employed for a short time with the Un- 
derfeed Stoker Co. at New York and 
Montreal, and then with the C. W. Hunt Co., 
West New Brighton, N. Y., until the time 
of his death, September 25, 1904. He was a 
junior member of the American Society of 
Mechanical Engineers, an associate of the 
Canadian Society of Civil Engineers, and a 
member of the Tan Beta Pi fraternity. 

EUeau, Louis Antoine (M.E., '97), was 
born in Hoboken, N. J., May 25, 1876; son 
of Louis H. and Helena Elleau. He studied 
in the Columbia School of Mines, 1897-98; 
was with the Safety Car Heating & Light- 
ing Co., New York, 1898-99; and with the 
Essex & Hudson Gas Co., Newark, 1809- 




L. A. El.LEAU 



1902 



He died at Newark, N. J., October 9. 
in the latter year. He was a member of the 
Tau Beta Pi fraternity. 



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Ellinger, Edgar (M.E., 'oi), was employed 
in the works of the General Electric Co., 
Schenectady, N. Y., 1901 ; with the Geo. A. 
Fuller Co., New York, 1901-04; and is now 
a member of the firm of L. K. Comstock & 
Co., New York. He is a member of the Tau 
Beta Pi fraternity. 

Elliott, Theodore Arthur (M.E., '80), was 
born in Orange, N. J., March 3, 1858; son 




T. A. Elliott 

of Theodore C. and Martha Elliott. His 
grandparents were both of New England 
birth and of English descent. In early life 
he was greatly interested in the construction 
of mechanical devices and utilized all spare 
time from school and other duties for such 
purposes. He was draughtsman with the 
John T. Noye Manufacturing Co., Buffalo, 
N. Y., builders of flour-mills and fiour-mill 
machinery, 1880-85, being employed in mak- 
ing plans of the largest flour-mills and de- 
signing most of the special devices used on 
the machinery made by the company. He 
engaged in professional work at Buffalo, 
selecting as his particular line the designing 
of special machinery and appliances, 1885- 
91 : and was with Plumb, Burdict, & Bar- 
nard, Buffalo, manufacturers of bolts and 
nuts and of bolt and nut machinery, 1891-97. 
While with this firm he had charge of mat- 
ters pertaining to the construction of the ma- 
chinery used in its works, and also of the 



machinery sent to different parts of the 
world, including some of the most efficient 
machines for bolt-making known to the 
trade, and ranging in size from small auto- 
matic to heavy heading-machines. From 
1897 to date he has been with the Buffalo 
Bolt Co. as mechanical engineer in charge 
of construction and operation of machinery 
and plants. He wrote an article on " Flour 
Mill Machinery " for Applcton's Cyclopedia 
of Applied Meclianics. He is a member of 
the Delta Tau Delta fraternity. 

Ellsworth, Oliver (M.E., '94), was in the 
employment of the East River Gas Co., New 
York, 1894-95 ; with the Ingersoll-Sergeant 
Drill Co., New York, 1895-97; with the 
Deane Steam Pump Co., Holyoke, Mass., 
1898; with the Knowles Steam Pump Works 
and the Geo. F. Blake Manufacturing Co., 
East Cambridge, Mass., 1899-1900; and in 
New York from 1900 to date. 

Elson, Louis Edward (M.E., '91). was 
born in Red Wing, Minn., March 28, 1868; 
son of Julius and Lottie Elson. He was 
superintendent in the shops of W. D. Forbes 
& Co., Hoboken, N. J., 1891-92; with the 
Beckwith Foundry & Machine Co., Arling- 
ton, N. J., 1892-93 ; with the Elson & Brew- 
ster Engineering Co., New York, 1893-96; 
and has been superintendent of the Ignaz 
Strauss Fan Co., East Braintree, Boston, 
Mass., from 1896 to date. In 1901 he be- 
came a member of the firm, still retaining his 
position as superintendent of the works, 
which were then removed to New York. 
The product of this company is chiefly ladies' 
fans, an industry newly developed by the firm 
in this country. Mr. Elson has patents pend- 
ing on a machine for folding fan-tops, and 
another on a machine for pasting fan-tops to 
fan-sticks. He is a member of the American 
Society of Mechanical Engineers, and of the 
Freundschaft Club, of New York. Mr. Elson 
married Jennie Scharpes, January 2, 1905. 

Emmet, C. Temple (M.E., '91), was in the 
employ of the Edison General Electric Co., 
and later of the General Electric Co., until 
February, 1893, when he commenced the 
study of law in the office of Martin J. Keogh, 
New Rochelle, N. Y. He was graduated 
from the Yale Forest School in 1902. 



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Ennis, William Duane (M.E., '97), was 
born in Bergen County, N. J. He served a 
machinist apprenticeship with the Rogers 
Locomotive Co., and spent a year in the en- 
gineering department of the Passaic Rolling 
Mill Co. ; and from 1897 to 1898 was em- 
ployed in the works of the Consolidated Gas 
Co. of New Jersey, at Long Branch, N. J. 
He was mechanical engineer with the Wal- 
worth Construction & Supply Co., Boston, 
Mass., 1898-1900, during which time he de- 
signed and installed steam and electric power 
plants and several representative steam-pipe 
equipments throughout New England. He 
was next in charge of the mechanical depart- 
ment in the office of Tower & Wallace, mill 
architects. New York, for whom he located, 
designed, and installed an 8,000 horse-power 
plant for the Oxford Paper Co., Rumford 
Falls, Me., together with water-piping, fire- 
protection system, and piping for handling 
pulp, aggregating $250,000. He also de- 
signed brick chimneys for the Champion 
Coated Paper Co., Hamilton, O. (10X225 
feet) and the Toronto Paper Manufacturing 
Co., Cornwall, Ont. In February, 1901, he 
was sent to the State of Washington by New 
York capitalists to revamp the power and 
mechanical equipment of five associated in- 
dustries, including a railroad, lead-smelter, 
street railway, concentrator, and paper-mill. 
He was recalled in August to vmdertake for 
the same parties the mechanical supervision 
of the 60-odd mills of the American Linseed 
Co. In June, 1902, he was advanced to the 
management of that company's manufactur- 
ing interests east of Chicago, now having 
entire charge of the production of linseed 
oil in the largest mills in the country. 

Mr. Ennis is a member of the American 
Society of Mechanical Engineers. He has 
written many articles for the technical press, 
some of the more important of which are the 
following : 

"Central Station Economics," Railroad Ga- 
zette, September 2 and 16, 1898. 

"Variation in Boiler Efficiency," Power, 
August, 1898. 

"The Selection of a Steam-Engine," Ameri- 
can Electrician, XIII, No. 7. 

"The Future of Power Development," Engi- 
neering Magazine, 1900, p. 278. 

"Steam Engineering in Paper and Pulp Mills," 
Engineering Magazine, 1901, p. 518. 



"Engineering Management of Industrial 
Works," Engineering Magazine, 1901. 

"Specific Heat of Anhydrous Liquid Am- 
monia" in collaboration with Mr. L. A. Elleau) , 
Journal Franklin Institute, March and April, 
1898. 

"Calibration of Water Meters," Stevens Indi- 
cator, July, 1898. 

"The Central Station Boiler Room," Ameri- 
can Electrician, XIII, No. 7. 

"Intensified Production and Industrial In- 
vestment," Engineering Alagazinc, 1902. 

"Steam Piping for Central Stations," Street 
Railway Review. 

"Central Station Piping," American Electri- 
cian, XII, Nos. 6 and 7. 

"Open and Closed Feed-Water Heaters," 
Power. 

"Isolated Lighting Plants," Electrical World 
and Engineer. 

"Central Station Meter Tests," The Electrical 
Engineer. 

"Relative Steam Producing Value of Three 
Qualities of Coal," Street Railway Journal, April, 
1898. 

"Electricity in Mining" (serial). Journal oj 
Electricity, V, No. 9. 

" Flange Joints for Steam Pipes," Steam Engi- 
neering, August and September, 1900. 

" Brick Chimneys for Power Stations," Ameri- 
can Electrician. 

Mr. Ennis, who is the son of \Villiam C. 
and Katherine (Burroughs) Ennis, married 
Margaret B. Schuyler, December 28, 1898. 

Erben, Hermann F. T. (M.E., '87), has 
been with the Edison Machine Works, 
Schenectady, N. Y., now the General Elec- 
tric Co., from 1887 to date. 

Erdman, Albert Wm. (M.E., '91), was 
assistant electrician with the American Tel- 
ephone & Telegraph Co., New York, 1891- 
98; superintendent of the Driggs-Seabury 
Gun & Ammunition Co., Derby, Conn., 1898- 
1901 : and has been superintendent of the 
Randolph-Clower Co., Waterbury, Conn., 
from 1 90 1 to date. 

Estrada, Esteban Duque (M.E., '83), was 
born at Puerto Principe, Cuba, November 22, 
1859. He was a member of the engineer 
corps of the Juragua Iron Co., Santiago, 
Cuba, 1883-85 ; was employed in the divi- 
sion of steam supply of the New York Steam 
Co., 1886; was assistant inspector of bridges 
for the Southwest System of the Pennsyl- 



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vania Co., 1886-90; a member of the firm 
of Estrada, Kenyon, & Gray, inspecting en- 
gineers, Pittsburg, Pa., 1890-93; consulting 
and contracting engineer, Pittsburg, 1893- 
1900; and has been chief engineer of pubhc 
works, Province of Pinar del Rio, Cuba, 




E. D. Estrada 

from 1900 to date. He has been granted a 
patent for an impact-testing machine. He 
has presented two papers to the Engineers' 
Society of Western Pennsylvania ; the first 
on " The Effect of Impact Upon the Strength 
and Other Properties of Iron and Steel," 
read June, 1892; and the second on "The 
Expansion of Cast Iron at the Moment of 
Solidification," read at the meeting of 1894. 
He is a member of the American Society of 
Mechanical Engineers; of the Engineers' 
Society of Western Pennsylvania; the Inter- 
national Association for Testing Materials ; 
the University Club of Pittsburg, Pa., and 
of the Delta Tau Delta fraternity. 

Mr. Estrada is the son of Esteban Duque 
and Loreto Castillo Estrada. He married 
Isabel Arnold Reynolds in 1892, and they 
have two children, Sarah Isabel and Esteban 
Estrada. 

Everett, Charles J., Jr. (M.E., '90), was 
born in Tenafly, N. J., March 21, 1868; son 
of Charles J. and Constance E. Everett. He 
was in the employ of Henry R. Worthington, 
manufacturer of steam pumping machinery, 



first in the shops, and later as supervising 
engineer for installing pumping and con- 
densing machinery, including a 5,000-horse- 
power condensing-apparatus for one of the 
Buffalo street railroads, and others of less 
power on some of the large Lake steamships, 
1891-93; and from the latter year to 1899 
was consulting engineer in New York city, 
doing general designing and construction 
work ; designing special machinery ; testing 
work ; investigating inventions for prospec- 
tive investors; and acting as expert in patent 
and appraisement suits. He was engineer 
of water works for the town of Toms River, 
N. J., the plant consisting of wells, mains, 
tank, and gasoline puniping-station. He also 
engaged in fireproof building engineering 
for the Pittsburg Terra Cotta Lumber Co., 
and prepared an elaborate catalogue for that 
company. He was with the De La Vergne 
Refrigerating Machine Co., of New York, 
redesigning and reducing cost of production 
of the Hornsby-Akroyd oil engine, 1899- 
1901 ; with Stephen T. Williams, business 
economist. New York, 1901-03, being also 
engaged in work for the New York Life 
Insurance Co. and the Greenwich Fire In- 
surance Co., of New York, effecting sav- 
ings in the clerical work of their respective 
offices. For the former company, in con- 
nection with Mr. Henry W. Herrman, he 
developed and patented special methods and 
apparatus for producing, by electric light, 
blue-print copies of card records with such 
rapidity that this method has entirely super- 
seded the old method of hand-written tran- 
scripts in that office. In 1903 he opened an 
office in New York as a specialist in factory 
cost-reducing methods and general engineer- 
ing work. 

Everhart, Henry B. (M.E., '86), was with 
the Louisville & Nashville Railroad, Louis- 
ville, Ky., 1887-89; with the United States 
Rolling Mills Co., Anniston, Ala., 1889-91 ; 
with the United Gas Improvement Co., Phil- 
adelphia, Pa., 1891-92; with the Hardie Tyne 
Machine Co., Birmingham, Ala., 1899-1904; 
and with the E. H. Lummus Sons Co., manu- 
facturers of ginning machinery, Columbus, 
Ga. 

Everitt, Frank Conger (M.E., '99), was 
born in Hackettstown, N. J., February 19, 



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1876. He attended the public school at 
Hackettstown, N. J., graduating in 1893. 
He entered the Stevens Preparatory School 
the same year, and graduated from the col- 
lege course in 1899. From 1899 to date he 
has been assistant to the superintendent of 
the Jordan L. Mott Iron Works, New York. 
He joined the " Associated Foundry Fore- 
men " in February, 1904, at which time he 
was elected secretary and treasurer of the 
New York branch, then organized. He is 
a member of the Theta Xi fraternity. 

Mr. Everitt is the son of George T. and 
Aima K. Everitt. He married Carrie E. 



a partner in, and engineer of, the Hygeia 
Ice Co., at Curaqao, operating one 4-ton Pon- 




F. C. Everitt 

MacLean, October 10, 1900, and they have 
one child, Marion Everitt. 

Evertsz, John Frederick (M.E., '96), was 
born in Curasao, D. W. I., March 31, 1875; 
son of J. P. and J. C. Evertsz. He was as- 
sistant electrician with the Maracaibo Elec- 
tric Light Co., Maracaibo, Venezuela, 1896- 
97, and superintendent of the installation of 
the Cucuta Electric Light Plant, Cucuta, Col- 
ombia, 1897-98. The latter work included 
the construction of a flume 6,000 feet long; 
the erection of a Leffel turbine and a Gen- 
eral Electric single-phase generator; the 
construction of a high-voltage transmission 
line six miles long; and the transformation 
and distribution of the current in the city 
of Cucuta. From 1898 to date he has been 




AND II-^GEiA Ice Co. 
/. F. Evertsz 

tifex & Wood absorption ice-machine mak- 
ing ice on the plate system, and from 1901 to 
date he has been superintendent of the " Cura- 
qaosche Inrichting voor Elektriciteit." This 
plant consists of two loo-horse-power tubu- 
lar boilers, one 200-horse-power Galloway 
boiler, one 125-horse-power Ball duplex com- 
pound engine, one lOO-horse-power Mcin- 
tosh & Seymour engine, two Wheeler 
Admiralty surface condensers, two Worth- 
ington duplex boiler-feed pumps, one 90- 
kilowatt and two 37^-kilowatt Fort Wayne 
single-phase alternators. He is a member of 
the Theta Nu Epsilon fraternity. 

Faber du Faur, A., Jr. (M.E., '84), was 
employed by Van Santvoord & Hauff, 
patent lawyers, 1884-88; and practised as 
consulting engineer and patent attorney, 
New York, from 1888 until the time of his 
death, July 12, 1904. He handled many 
patent cases for Charles Cooper & Co. ; the 
Chemical Works of Newark, N. J. ; the 
Diesel Motor Co., of New York; Fried. 
Krupp, of Essen, Germany; Prof. Bristol, of 
Stevens Institute; and many others of equal 
prominence. From i8g8 until his death he 
was a member of the firm of Faber du Faur 
& Donnely, New York, consulting and con- 
structing engineers, which prepared plans 
for the io,ooo-ton floating dry-dock for the 
Tietjen & Lang Dry Dock Co., Hoboken, 
N. J., in 1899, the dock having since been in 
successful operation. The firm also com- 



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pleted a plant necessary for the repair of 
vessels at the same place; perfected the 
Westlake Powdered Fuel Burner; was also 
engaged on down-draught furnaces for the 
Smokeless Combustion Co., Walbridge, Ber- 
wind, and others; erected a glass-sand plant 
for the Valley Hill Sand Co., and was con- 
nected with the development of the Jaeger 
rotary engine. He acted as purchasing 
agent for large amounts of machinery, and 
also designed and equipped large plants for 
hoisting and conveying material. 

Falk, Myron S. (M.E., 'oo), entered Ste- 
\'ens in the Senior year, having previously 
received the degree of Civil Engineer from 
Columbia University in 1899. He was an 
assistant in the summer school of geodesy, 
Columbia University, at Osterville, Mass., 
1899; assistant in the department of civil 
engineering, Columbia University, 1900-01 ; 
tutor in same department, 1901-03; and 
instructor, 1903 to date. He is assistant to 
William H. Burr, consulting engineer. He 
is a member of the commission of five ap- 
pointed by Governor Odell, of New York, to 
investigate the threatened pollution of New 
York Bay by the trunk sewer planned to 
drain a large portion of northern New Jer- 
sey, and emptying into the upper bay. He is 
a junior member of the American Society of 
Civil Engineers, and a member of the Sigma 
Xi fraternity. 

Fanning, Winthrop Saltonstall (M.E., '93), 
was born in Brooklyn, N. Y., November 26, 
1870. He was in the employ of Norton 
Bros., Chicago, 111., makers of sheet-metal 
goods, 1893-95 ; assistant superintendent of 
one of the factories of this firm, the Norton 
Can Co., at Whitestone, L. I., 1895-98; and 
has been with Mr. Francis H. Richards, New 
York, in the capacity of mechanical engi- 
neer, from 1898 to date. Mr. Richards is a 
solicitor of patents, mechanical engineer, 
and expert in patent causes, and has had is- 
sued to him the second largest number of 
patents in the United States. Mr. Fanning 
was instructor in advanced mechanical draw- 
ing in the Mechanics and Tradesmen's 
School, of New York, during the school year 
1891-92. He wrote an article on " Graphic 
Methods of Figuring" for the American Ma- 
chinist in 1902. 



The son of David Green and Elizabeth 
(Buckingham) Fanning, he is of Irish de- 
scent on his father's side and English on his 
mother's. He married Marie Talbot Met- 
calfe, February 2, 1897, and they have two 
children, Marion Talbot and Stanton Met- 
calfe Fanning. 

Farrar, William Matthew (M.E., '90), was 
])orn in Milton, Florida, August 11, 1867. 
He was educated in the public schools of 
Lynchburg, Va., and Nashville, Tenn. He 
Vv'as draughtsman with the Link-Belt Engi- 
neering Co., New York, 1890; assistant to 
the furnace manager of the Sloss Iron & 
Steel Co., Birmingham, Ala., 1890-91, in 




W. M. Farrar 

this connection making designs for rebuild- 
ing and equipping two blast furnaces and 
designing a coal-handling plant and machin- 
ery ; with the Union Iron Co., Brooklyn, 
and the Wallis Iron Co., Jersey City, in de- 
signing and detailing ironwork for build- 
ings, 1891 ; instructor in mathematics and 
drawing, in the College of the City of New 
York, 1892; and with John J. Radley & Co., 
Inc., New York, from 1892 to date, now 
holding the position of secretary and chief 
engineer. He is engaged in designing, de- 
tailing, and superintending the manufacture 
of ironwork for buildings, and has had 
charge of a number of important buildir.gs in 
New York city. He has also designed and 



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superintended the erection and equipment of 
a new plant for this purpose, and has in- 
stalled a compressed-air system with numer- 
ous special machines. An illustrated ac- 
count of this system appeared in Com- 
pressed Air, December, 1898. He was 
granted a patent in 1898 for a method of 
supplying compressed air to moving motors, 
and in August, 1904, he made application 
for a patent on a special form of I-beam 
column. He is a past-regent of the Royal 
Arcammi. 

Mn Farrar is the son of iVIatthew S. and 
Martha A. Farrar. He is descended from 
William Farrar who came to Virginia from 
Yorkshire in 1618 and was treasurer of the 
London Company and afterward of the 
Colony. Members of his family took part 
in the War of American Independence, 
War of i8i2, and Civil War. He married 
Elizabeth L. Watson, November 23, 1892, 
and they have four children, William Mat- 
thew, Jr., Anna Virginia, Catherine Eliza- 
beth, and Benjamin Randolph Farrar. 

Faulks, James Buckley, Jr. (M.E., '96), 
was born in East Orange, N. J., December 
13- 1873. He received a common-school 
education supplemented by four years at the 
Bordentown Military Institute, N. J., and 
one year at Stevens School, before entering 
Stevens Institute. He has held many posi- 
tions since graduation with a view to ob- 
taining a broad practical experience. To 
that end he has secured employment in vari- 
ous works, shops, factories, draughting- 
rooms, etc., in Pennsylvania, New Jersey, 
New York, New England, and the North- 
west, and has studied gas-engines, steam- 
engines, electrical machinery, compressed- 
air machines, etc. He taught mechanical 
drawing and geometry for one term at an 
evening trade-school in Newark, N. J., and 
was also instructor in mechanical drawing at 
Cooper Union, New York. From 1902 to 
1904 he was employed in the engineering 
department of the New York Safety Steam 
Power Co., New York. He is now an 
instructor in the College of Applied Science 
at Syracuse University, Syracuse, N. Y. 
He is a junior member of the American 
Society of Mechanical Engineers, and a 
member of the body of Free and Accepted 
Masons. 



Mr. Faulks is the son of James B. and 
Jennie E. (Eveland) Faulks. He married 
M. Emma Smack, March 20, 1902, and they 
have one child, Russell Reid Faulks. 

Fearn, Richard Lee (M.E., '84), was born 
in Mobile, Ala., August 31, 1862. He at- 
tended the University of the South, Sewanee, 
Tenn., 1874-79, and the University of Ala- 
bama, 1879-80. He is established at Wash- 
ington, D. C, as an authoritative specialist in 
news and comment on army and navy and 
international affairs. He has had a com- 
plete training in diplomatic and newspaper 
correspondence, treating specially of tech- 
nical matter in popular form. He was on 




R. I.. Feakn 



the staff of the " Brooklyn Eagle, 
Secretary of Foreign AiTairs at the World's 
Columbian E.xposition, Chicago, 111., 1891- 
93 ; Washington correspondent of the United 
Press, 1893-97, ^""J '" 1896 its London coi"- 
respondent. Since 1896 he has been on the 
Washington staff of the New York " Tri- 
bune," and since 1902 has been chief of the 
Washington bureau of that paper. He was 
a war correspondent in i8g8. He is a mem- 
ber of the Beta Theta Pi fraternity. 

Mr. Fearn is the son of Richard Lee Fearn 
and Elizabeth (Spear) Fearn. He married 
Eleanora Egerton at Baltimore, Md., April 
21, 1887, and they have two children, Rich- 
ard Lee and Mildred Fearn. 



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Fechheimer, Solomon (M.E., '90), was born 
in New York city July 19, 1868; son of 
Sigmund and Henrietta Fechheimer. He 
was assistant manager of the Columbia 
Typewriter Manufacturing Co., New York, 
1891-92; was located in New York, 1892-94, 
was engaged with the Columbia Typewriter 
Manufacturing Co., New York, 1894-95; 
and was located in New York, 1895-97. In 
May, 1897, he received the degrees of Bache- 
lor of Science and Mining Engineer at the 
Michigan College of Mines, Houghton, 
Mich., and practised as mining engineer at 
Eureka, Utah, from 1897 to 1898. He was 
located in New York, 1899-1902; was em- 
ployed in the construction department of the 
Schwarzschild & Sulzberger Co., Chicago, 
111., 1902-03 ; was again located in New York 
city for a short time, and is now insurance 
engineer with the Louisiana Fire Protection 
Bureau, New Orleans, La. 

Fellheimer, W. J. (M.E., '89), is a member 
of the firm of Fellheimer & Lindauer, manu- 
facturers and importers, New York. 

Ferguson, John (M.E., '00), was special 
agent at Jacksonville, Fla., for the Peninsula 
& Occidental Steamship Co., operating a line 
of steamers between Havana, Nassau, Port 
Tampa, and Key West in 1901 ; and from 
that time to date has been employed in the 
Fox Hill Foundry, conducted by F. Ferguson 
& Son at Hoboken, N. J. He is a member 
of the Tau Beta Pi fraternity. 

Fernandez, Lucas (M.E., '92), went to 
Costa Rica after graduation and was ap- 
pointed Secretary and Professor of Mathe- 
matics at the Institute of Cartago. He next 
received an appointment as fourth assistant 
engineer in the office of Public Works, a 
government position, which he held for two 
years. He was also general manager, at 
Esparta, of the Pacific Railroad. In 1895 
the office of Public Works was reorganized, 
and Mr. Fernandez returned to it as assist- 
ant engineer of the Technical Section, which 
position he now holds. For six months, dur- 
ing a leave of absence from the government 
of Costa Rica, he was general manager for 
the Costa Rican Telephone Co. and the Ala- 
pula & Heredia Electric Light Co. He is 
located at San Jose, Costa Rica. 



Ferris, Henry Carr (M.E., '88), was born 
in Sandusky, O., March i, 1865. He was 
draughtsman with the Massillon Bridge Co., 
1888-89; instrument-man and division engi- 
neer on construction with the Toledo, Col- 




H. C. Ferris 

umbus, and Cincinnati Railway Co. ; engi- 
neer of maintenance of way, 1890, and super- 
intendent and engineer of maintenance of 
way of the same line, 1891-92. November i, 
1892, when the above railway was absorbed 
by the Toledo & Ohio Central Railway Co., 
he retained the same positions with this 
company and was placed in charge of the 
Western Division. In December, 1893, he 
was relieved of the duties of engineer of 
maintenance of way and made superintend- 
ent of the Western Division of the Toledo 
& Ohio Co., which position he held until 

1901, when he was made assistant chief engi- 
neer of this company and of the Kanawha & 
Michigan Railway. He resigned in the year 

1902, and accepted the position of assist- 
ant superintendent of the Union Pacific Rail- 
road, being located at Omaha, Neb. He was 
appointed superintendent of the Colorado 
Division with headquarters at Denver, Colo., 
in 1903, also president of the Union Depot & 
Railway Co. of Denver. Fie is a member 
of the American Railway, Engineering, and 
Maintenance of Way Association, and of the 
Beta Theta Pi and Theta Nu Epsilon fra- 
ternities. 



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Mr. Ferris is the son of James M. and 
Mary Ellen (Dickinson) Ferris. He mar- 
ried Clara E. Shingle, March i8, 1893. 

Fezandi^, Joseph Hector (M.E., '75), was 
born in Paris, France, August 22, 1856. He 




J. H. Fezandie 

came to this countrj' with his parents in 
1861, and attended a public school in New 
York city for a couple of years, then studied 
in a private school founded by his father 
until 1872, when he entered Stevens in the 
Sophomore year. He engaged in teaching 
mathematics at the Fezandie Institute, New 
York, 1875-77; attended the Paris Exposi- 
tion in 1878 as representative of " The Iron 
Age," and was a regular member of its edi- 
torial staff until 1880. Although afterward 
engaged in other occupations, he maintained 
his connection with that journal until 1903, 
being employed upon its French Supplement. 
From 1881 to 1891 he was in the employ of 
the firm of John Matthews, manufacturers 
of soda-water machinery and apparatus, and 
when this firm sold out its business he re- 
turned to teaching, and has since then been 
instructor of mathematics and physics at the 
Cutler School, New York. He is the pat- 
entee (1887 and 1891) of two improvements 
in card lists, or catalogues, and has con- 
tributed to technical journals articles (pub- 
lished under various iioiiis dc plume) re- 
lating chieflv to the construction of soda- 



water machinery and kindred topics. His 
more recent writings have been in quite 
another field, entirely unconnected with sci- 
ence or technology. He is a member of the 
Schoolmasters' Association of New York, 
and of the Physics Club of New York. 

Mr. Fezandie is the son of Eugene F. G. 
and Marie (Bardin) Fezandie. His father 
was a Professor in the College of Bordeaux, 
and came to the United States because of 
political persecution during the reign of 
Napoleon III., being an ardent Republican. 
His grandfather was an officer under 
Napoleon I. in the Spanish and German cam- 
paigns. His paternal ancestry was Hugue- 
not. He married Margaret Ann Phillips, 
July 15, 1886, and they have three children, 
Dorette, Eugene Hector, and Margaret Fez- 
andie. 

Field, Cornelius James (M.E., '86), was 
born in Chicago, 111., January 4, 1862. At 
the age of thirteen his parents moved from 
Chicago to Montreal, Canada, where young 
Field was engaged in business, all the while 
devoting his spare time to study. When 
nineteen years old he moved to New York, 
where after one year's study, he entered 
Stevens Institute. He paid his own college 
and living expenses through the Institute. 

He was employed in the engineering de- 
partment of the Edison Electric Light Co., 
New York, 1886-87; was chief engineer for 
the Edison United Manufacturing Co., New 
York, in charge of all construction work for 
isolated electric light and central station 
work throughout the United States, 1887-89; 
and general manager and chief engineer of 
the Edison Electric Light Co., Brooklyn, 
having charge of the designing and building 
of the plant and system of this company and 
organizing its business, 1889-90. This plant, 
which included a 4,000-horse-power steam 
electric plant and a 100,000-light under- 
ground system, marked a radical departure 
from former practice and developed the high- 
est economy. He was president and chief 
engineer of the Field Engineering Co., New 
York, engineers and contractors, in the de- 
signing and construction of electric railways, 
1890-95. In this connection he designed and 
built over 500 miles of electric railways and 
over 50,000 horse-power of steam and elec- 
tric central power stations, at Buffalo, 



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387 



Philadelphia, Newark, Paterson, Trenton, 
Worcester, Bridgeport, Boston, Elmira, De- 
troit, Towanda, Lancaster, Rutherford, etc. 
He practised as consulting engineer and 
contractor, 1895-98; was general manager 
and chief engineer with the American Vitri- 
fied Conduit Co., New York, 1898-99, con- 
tracting for over 7,000,000 duct feet of 
subway systems in New York, Brooklyn, 
Providence, Philadelphia, New Orleans, Bos- 
ton, and other cities, in one year. He was 
vice-president and general manager of the 
United States Motor Vehicle Co., New York, 
1899-1900, and vice-president and general 
manager of the De Dion-Bouton Motorette 
Co., Brooklyn, N. Y., 1900-02. From the 




C. J. Field 

latter date to the present time he has been 
engineer for and manufacturer of vitrified 
glazed clay conduits, and owner and patentee 
of conduit and subway systems. He is pres- 
ident and chief engineer of the Field-Foulks 
Co., engineers and contractors in the above- 
mentioned lines of business. In 1904 he took 
up, in addition, consulting engineering work. 
He has delivered several talks before the 
undergraduates of the Electrical Depart- 
ment, Stevens Institute, on central-station 
practice and electric railways ; and before 
the undergraduates of Sibley College, Cor- 
nell University, on the same subject. He 
has presented papers before the American 
Society of Mechanical Engineers, the Street 



Railway Association, the Edison Electric Il- 
luminating Association, the National Elec- 
tric Light Association, and to the following 
technical publications : " The Street Rail- 
way Journal," " Cassier's Magazine," " Ste- 
vens Indicator," " Electrical Engineer," 
" Electrical World," " Sibley College Jour- 
nal," " Power," " Western Electrician," etc. 

He is a member of the American Society 
of Mechanical Engineers, the American In- 
stitute of Electrical Engineers, the Ameri- 
can Society of Naval Engineers, the Society 
of Naval Engineers and Marine Architects, 
and of the Beta Theta Pi fraternity. 

Mr. Field, who is the son of Cornelius R. 
and Sarah E. (Henry) Field, is connected 
with the Field family who came to this coun- 
try in the seventeenth century. He married 
Agnes M. Craven, of Montreal, Canada, 
June 7, 1888, and they have four daughters, 
Gertrude Craven, Edith May, Lucia Ethel- 
wynne, and Agnes Olive Field. 

Field, William Alexander (M.E., '91), 
was born in Dixon Springs, Tenn., Septem- 
ber 27, 1869. During the Freshman year in 
college Mr. Field's father met with business 
reverses. Instead of giving up the course, 
young Field set about resolutely to raise 
sufficient funds to complete the three years' 
study. In this he succeeded, and in due time 
after graduation repaid the entire sum. 
While in college he was a member of the 
football, baseball, and lacrosse teams, and 
of the glee and banjo clubs. 

On graduation he entered the employment 
of the Illinois Steel Co., South Chicago. 
Starting in at the bottom, he served in vari- 
ous capacities until the latter part of 1896, 
at which time he held the position of night 
general superintendent. Between October, 
1896, and March, 1897, he was superinten- 
dent in charge of the rod-mills at the com- 
pany's Joliet plant. In March, 1897, he 
severed his connection with the Illinois Steel 
Co., taking the position of mechanical en- 
gineer for an electric welding company in 
Detroit. After several months as design- 
ing and constructing engineer for this com- 
pany, he joined the Michigan Peninsular 
Car Co., of Detroit, as assistant superin- 
tendent of their rolling-mill, which position 
he held until September, 1898. He then 
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mons Manufacturing Co., Kenosha, Wis., 
with which company he remained until July, 
1901, immediately thereafter assuming the 
duties of assistant general superintendent of 




the South Works of the Illinois Steel Co. ; 
in July, 1903, he was appointed general su- 
perintendent. 

While occupying these positions he has 
given his spare time to the development 
and institution of new methods of conduct- 
ing business, including shop organization, 
piece-work and premium systems, labor-sav- 
ing devices, condensed and quickly available 
records of cost of manufacture, etc., in 
which lines he has had a large measure of 
success. In 1902 he took out a United States 
patent for an improved tuyere, for use in the 
Bessemer process of making steel. The de- 
sign differs from the ordinary tuyere in that 
the air-passages, instead of having a uniform 
cross-section throughout the length of the 
tuyere, conform approximately to the path 
theoretically assumed by a fluid under pres- 
sure escaping through an orifice. The the- 
ory is not new, but its adaptation to a con- 
verter tuyere is. By actual test this tuyere 
has shown an increased efficiency of from 
15 to 25 per cent over the old design, all 
other conditions being equal. He has now 
on file an application for letters patent on a 
machine to manufacture the above tuyeres. 

An abstract of Mr. Field's thesis, prepared 



jointly with Mr. James T. Wallis, was pub- 
lished in the Stevens Indicator, IX, 318. Mr. 
Field is a member of the Beta Theta Pi 
fraternity. 

The son of Henry Philip and Mary Alex- 
ander Field, he is a descendant of Zach- 
ariah Field, one of the first immigrants to 
this country. On his mother's side he is 
descended from the Alexander family 
(Scotch), several members of which were 
signers of the Mecklenburg Declaration of 
Independence. He married Bertha Phillips, 
April 25, 1900, and they have two children, 
William Alexander, Jr., and Harriet Phil- 
lips Field. 

Field, William Bradhurst Osgood (M.E., 
'94), was born in Geneva, Switzerland, Sep- 
tember 16, 1871. He was assistant engineer 
in the chief engineer's office of the New 
York Central & Hudson River Railroad Co., 
New York. In December, 1898, he went on 
a hunting-trip to India. Upon his return a 
year later he organized the Holophane Glass 
Co., becoming its president. He retired from 
this position in 1901, and has since been a 
member of the firm of M. W. Kellogg & Co., 
New York. He is a member of the Automo- 




FlELD 



bile Club of France, the Automobile Club of 
America, the University, Union, Players', 
and Lawyers' clubs, and of the Chi Psi fra- 
ternity. 



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389 



Mr. Field is the son of William Hazard 
and Augusta (Bradhurst) Field. He mar- 
ried Lila Vanderbilt Sloane, July 8, 1902. 

Fielder, George B., Jr. (M.E., '94), was 
born in Rocky Hill, N. J., April 27, 1870; 
son of George B., and Eleanor A. Fielder. 
He was draughtsman with the Sprague Elec- 
trical Elevator Co., 1895 ! chief clerk of the 
Ordnance Department, New York Navy 
Yard, 1895-96; foreman for the P. Lorillard 
Co., Jersey City, 1896-99; and has been pay- 
ing and receiving teller with the Trust Com- 
pany of New Jersey, Hoboken, from 1899 to 



intendent. At present he holds the positions 
of vice-president and general superintendent. 




G. B. Fielder, Jr. 

date. He is a member of the University 
Club of Hudson County, N. J., and of the 
Chi Psi fraternity. 

Firestone, Joseph Frederick (M.E., '87), 
was born in Middle Branch, Stark County, 
O., May 30, 1862. He attended the country 
schools and was for two winters at Worley's 
private school in Canton; then took two 
years preparatory course in the Ohio State 
University, and, after completing the Fresh- 
man and Sophomore years at the University, 
entered the Stevens Institute in the fall of 
1885 and graduated with the Class of 1887. 
He has been connected with the Columbus 
Buggy Co., Columbus, O., since graduation, 
first as foreman of the shops, then as assist- 
ant to the superintendent, and next as super- 




J. F. Firestone 

He has read papers before the Engineers' 
Club of Columbus on the " Horseless Car- 
riage," and the " Purification of Boiler Feed 
Water." He is a member of the American 
Society of Mechanical Engineers, the Col- 
umbus Club, the Engineers' Club of Colum- 
bus (of which he was president in 1897), 
and of the Independent Order of Odd Fel- 
lows. 

Mr. Firestone is the son of Henry and 
Barbara (Rowland) Firestone. He married 
Josephine Leas, November 14, 1888, and 
they have one child, Anita Firestone. 

Fischer, Frederick K. (M.E., '85), has 
been with the Birmingham Foundry & Ma- 
chine Shop Co., of Pittsburg, Pa., since 
graduation. For a number of years he has 
held the position of contracting agent. 

Fitch, Mallory K. (M.E., '00), was en- 
gaged for a time on experimental work on 
a refrigerating-machine ; with Mr. E. F. Fer- 
guson, New York, 1901-02; and with the 
Ives Process Co., New York, from 1902 
until his death, September 25, 1904. 

Flack, Jacob Day (M.E., '87), was born 
in Baltimore, Md., July 26, 1864. His early 
education was received in the public schools 



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and in the Friends elementary and high 
school, Baltimore, Md., up to 1881. He was 
a machinist apprentice in the Penns>lvania 
Railroad shops at Baltimore, Md., in 1883, 
and in May of that year he won the mile 
handicap and mile scratch races at the meet 
of the Capital Bicycle Club, Washington, 
D. C. In the following July he also won the 
ten-mile Maryland State Bicycle champion- 
ship. 

He was with the Edison Lamp Co., East 
Newark, N. J., 1887-88; with the Weston 
Electrical Instrument Co., Newark, N. J., 
1888-89; assistant electrician for the Edison 
Lamp Co., 1889-91 ; superintendent of motive 
power and construction of the same com- 




J. D. Flack 

pany, 1891-95 ; consulting and constructing 
electrical and mechanical engineer. New 
York, 1895-97; superintendent and mechan- 
ical director of the Home Ice Machine Co., 
Baltimore, Md., 1897-98; with Burhorn & 
Granger, engineers, New York, 1899; engi- 
neer and salesman with Steele & Condict, 
manufacturers of refrigerating and ice-mak- 
ing machinery, Jersey City, N. J., 1899-1900; 
and in a similar capacity with the Isbell- 
Porter Co., Newark, N. J., 1900-01. As 
superintending engineer of the International 
Smokeless Powder & Dynamite Co., 1901- 
03, he reconstructed the entire plant and put 
it in successful operation for the manufactur- 
ing of smokeless powder for the United 



States Government. He conducted experi- 
mental work for the International Lithoid 
Co., Philadelphia, in 1903 ; and has been su- 
perintendent and engineer with the A. D. 
Granger Co., New York, from 1903 to date. 

He is a member of the American Institute 
of Electrical Engineers ; of the Orange, 
Essex County Toboggan, and Maryland 
Bicycle clubs ; and of the Sigma Chi and 
Theta Nu Epsilon fraternities ; and director 
and treasurer of the Orange Athletic Club. 

Mr. Flack is the son of John Sims Oliver 
and Martha Ann Flack. He married Helen 
Finney, April 19, 1892, and they have two 
children, Jacob Dav, Jr., and Walter Gillette 
Flack. 

Flannery, William (M.E., '02), has, since 
graduation, been a special apprentice in the 
shops of the New York Central Railroad at 
West Albany, N. Y. 

Foppes, Alfred M. C. H. (M.E., '01), was 
born in Hamburg, Germany, April 22, 1879; 
son of Gustav and Emilie Foppes. His par- 
ents left Germany to engage in business in 
the United States when he was four years 
of age. Since then he has spent most of his 
time, with the exception of frequent visits 
to Europe, in New York and New Jersey. 
The greater part of his school education 
was received in the grammar and high 
schools of Montclair, N. J., where he was 
graduated and honored with the gold medal 
for scholarship in 1897. He spent several 
months on a vacation trip in the Black For- 
est of Germany, and through Switzerland, 
after which he entered the machine-shops at 
Harburg-on-the-Elbe. He was employed as 
engineer in the Hamburg house of the Ru- 
dolph Otto Meyer firm (a large heating and 
ventilating concern having branches in Ber- 
lin, Miinchen; Bremen, Kiel, and a separate 
manufacturing branch in Mannheim) in 
1901. He is at present with White, Child, & 
Beney, Ltd., London, England, agents for 
Great Britain of the Strebel hot-water and 
low-pressure steam boilers manufactured by 
the house of Rudolph Otto Meyer, at Mann- 
heim. Mr. Foppes is a member of the Tau 
Beta Pi fraternity. 

Foster, Ernest Howard (M.E., '84), was 
born in Springfield, Mass., May 5, 1865. His 



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first summer vacation in college he spent as 
fifth engineer on the S.S. " Grecian Mon- 
arch," between New York and London. He 




E. H. Foster 

was employed at the Worthington hydraulic 
works, 1884-1900, serving in the machine- 
shops, draughting-room, outside erecting, 
designing, engineering, and contracting de- 
partments of the firm of Henry R. Worth- 
ington and the Worthington Pumping-En- 
gine Co. In the interest of Henry R. Worth- 
ington he constructed the pumping-plants 
for the water supply of the Expositions at 
Paris in 1889 and 1900, and was also in 
charge of the machinery on the Trans-Cau- 
casian pipe line for transporting refined 
petroleum from the refineries at Baku to the 
seaport at Batoum in southern Russia. Since 
1900 he has been vice-president of the Power 
Specialty Co., a New York corporation en- 
gaged in manufacturing steam superheaters 
and hydraulic apparatus, and contractors for 
the general improvement of power plants. 
He has contributed papers to scientific bodies 
as follows : On " The Water-Supply of 
Memphis, Tenn.," to the Brooklyn Engi- 
neers' Club, 1897 ; on " A Pumping-Engine 
Test with Superheated Steam," to the Amer- 
ican Society of Mechanical Engineers, at the 
Cincinnati meeting, 1900; and on "Super- 
heated Steam," at the Milwaukee meeting of 
the same society in 1901. He is a member 
of the American Society of Mechanical En- 



gineers, of the American Society of Civil 
Engineers, the British Institution of Me- 
chanical Engineers, the American Water 
Works Association, the Engineers' Club, the 
New England Water Works Association, 
and of the Delta Tau Delta fraternity. 

Mr. Foster is the son of Edwin Dexter 
and Mary A. (Phipps) Foster, and grand- 
son of Dexter Foster, engineer of construc- 
tion for the Boston and Albany Railroad, 
and the first man to run a tunnel on a curve. 
He married Margaret Willard Martin, May 
28, 1902, and they have one child, Margaret 
Foster. 

Foster, Frank W. (M.E., '84), was born 
in New York city; son of Alonzo A. and 
Helen M. Foster. He spent some time in 
the shops of the Chicago, Burlington & 
Quincy Railroad at Aurora, 111., but found 
the manual labor too much for his strength 
and returned to his home in Brooklyn, where 
he assisted his father in light office work. 
Having a fondness for music, he practised 
much, and upon the death of his father gave 
his entire time to settling up the estate and 




F. W. Foster 

giving lessons in music. Encouraged with 
his success in this line, he made it his pro- 
fession, and is still following it. 

Fox, William (M.E., '86), was born in 
Bohemia, September 18, 1864. His early 



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education was received in Prague, Bohemia, 
but he graduated from a pubHc school in New 
Yoric city, and also from the College of the 
City of New York, at which institution he 




William Fox 

was Assistant Professor of Physics and with 
which he has been connected since 1889. 
Previous to that year he had been instructor 
in mechanics and drawing at the Working- 
man's Institute, New York. In 1898 he con- 
tributed an article on the " Graphics of 
Water Wheels " to the October issue of the 
Stevens Indicator, and in the January, 1899, 
issue of the same journal he presented an 
article on " The Application of the Graphics 
of Water Wheels to the Faesch & Picard 
Turbines at Niagara Falls." He also con- 
tributed an article on " The Fallacy of Liquid 
Air" to the May, 1899, issue of Machinery, 
and one on " The Solignac Boiler " to 
Power, April, 1898. Besides, he contributed 
articles on " The Graphics of Thermodynam- 
ics " and " The Zeuner Diagram " to the 
Journal of the Franklin Institute, 1898. To- 
gether with C. W. Thomas, '84, he wrote 
" Elements of Mechanical Drawing," pub- 
lished by the Van Nostrand Co., New York. 
He is a member of the American Society of 
Mechanical Engineers, the American Physi- 
cal Society, the American Association for 
the Advancement of Science, the Electrical 
Society, and of the Phi Beta Kappa and Chi 
Psi fraternities. 



Mr. Fox is the son of Joseph K. and Bar- 
bara Fox. He married Madeleine Arnaud, 
February 18, 1889, deceased March 11, 1899. 
He has two children, William Arnaud and 
Madeleine Arnaud Fox. 

Fraentzel, Frederick C. (M.E., '83), was 
born in Newark, N. J., June 4, 1862. He was 
assistant in the department of maintenance 
of ways of the Pennsylvania Railroad, Jersey 
City, 1883; in the shops of the Pittsburg, 
Chicago, & St. Louis Railroad, Logansport. 
Ind., 1883-84; and first assistant engineer 
with the Celluloid Manufacturing Co., New- 
ark, N. J., 1884-85. He has been a member 
of the firm of Campbell & Co., Newark, N. J., 
mechanical engineers, solicitors of patents, 
and experts in patent causes, from 1885 to 
date. Since the death of Mr. Campbell in 
1887 Mr. Fraentzel has continued the busi- 
ness alone at the same place. Fie has a large 
number of prominent clients, and he has 
acted as patent agent for James E. Sague, 
A. H. Hickok, and E. D. Estrada, all of the 
Class of '83, in securing United States and 
foreign patents for them. He is also secre- 
tary and treasurer of the Electra Manufac- 
turing Co., Newark, and a member of the 




F. C. Fraentzel 



Board of Trade, the Newark Club, the Re- 
publican Club of Newark, N. J., and of the 
Freylinghuysen Lancers. 

Mr. Fraentzel is the son of H. Hugo R. 



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and Regina Fraentzel. He married Lillie 
Blewett (deceased), February 5, 1885; and 
Willmia Blewett, September 30, 1890. He 
has one child, Frederick H. W. Fraentzel. 

Frank, Emil H., Jr. (M.E., '98), was with 
the Edison Electric Illuminating Co., New 
York, 1898-99; and with the American Pa- 
per Goods Co., Kensington, Conn., 1899- 
1900. He has been constructing engineer 
and draughtsn-fan for the Electric Launch 
Co., Bayonne City, N. J., from 1900 to date. 

Frazar, Everett Welles (M.E., '90), was 
born in Shanghai, China, August 17, 1867. 
He was laboratory assistant with Thomas 
Shaw, Philadelphia, 1890-91 ; engaged in ex- 
perimental work in the laboratory of Thomas 
A. Edison, Orange, N. J., 1891 ; and was as- 
sistant manager of the Sims-Edison Elec- 
trical Torpedo Co., 1891-93. 

In March, 1892, he went to France, where 
he constructed and tested a complete tor- 
pedo plant at Toulon for the French gov- 
ernment. Returning to New York in Sep- 
tember, 1893, he installed a torpedo on the 
Brazilian warship " America." In February 
of the following year he went to England, 
France, and Turkey, on torpedo survey work. 
Upon the completion of these surveys he re- 
turned to New York to organize the Sims- 
Dudley Defense Co., and commenced the de- 
velopment of the Dudley pneumatic dynamite 
gun. 

In November, 1896, he resigned this posi- 
tion and went to Yokohama, Japan, to enter 
the employ of Messrs. Frazar & Co. as me- 
chanical engineer. In this capacity he super- 
intended, among other plants, the erection 
of the Yasuda Wire Nail Factory at Tokyo, 
the first nail plant in Japan. In October, 
1897, hs was made manager of the Yoko- 
hama branch of Messrs. Frazar & Co. In 
May, 1898, he became chief engineer of the 
Moyoro Sulphur Mine on the island of 
Etorufu, northern Japan, designing, instal- 
ling, and putting into operation an exten- 
sive plant for sulphur-mining, including an 
aerial wire-rope tramway three miles in 
length, a description of which will be found 
in the February, 1901, number of Cassier's 
Magazine. 

In 1900 he resigned and again entered the 
offices of Frazar & Co. On January i, 1902, 



he acquired the firm name and business by 
purchase, and inheritance from his father, 
who died January 3, 1901. The firm is at 
present actively engaged in general import 
and export business, but more especially in 
engineering work, such as electric street-car 
installation, locomotives, and general ma- 
chinery, a recent contract secured being the 
equipment of 100 cars for the Tokyo street 
railways. He is also interested in various 
industrial enterprises, being managing direc- 
tor of the Tokyo Sawmills and the Yoko- 
hama Dyeing & Finishing Works, Ltd. 

An abstract of his graduating thesis, pre- 
pared jointly with Mr. William A. Ebsen, 
on " The Measurement of High Tempera- 
tures by the Electrical Resistance of Plat- 




E. W. Frazar 

inum. Including a Design of an Electrical 
Pyrometer," was published in the Stevens 
Indicator, VIII, i. He contributed an article 
on " The New Hoboken Ferryboat ' Ber- 
gen ' " to the same magazine, VI, 129. He 
is a member of the Delta Tau Delta frater- 
nity. 

Mr. Frazar, who is the son of Everett and 
Annie Lindsley Frazar, is a descendant of 
the Clan Eraser of Inverness, Scotland, the 
name being changed to Frazar at the time 
of an ancestor's coming to America. He 
married Maude Wolcott, October 7, 1896, 
and they have one child, Anna Halstead 
Frazar. 



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Freygang, Henry (M.E., '80), was born 
in New York city May 17, 1861. He be- 
came draughtsman for J. G. Clarke & Co., 
bridge contractors, Baltimore, Md., later 
reorganized into the Clarke Bridge Co., with 
whom he remained until 1883, mostly doing 
construction work upon Howe truss bridges 
and trestle work in Virginia. He was with 
the Missouri Valley Bridge & Iron Works, 
Leavenworth, Kan., 1883-84; engineer with 
the California Bridge Co., 1885 ; went abroad 
on account of ill' health, 1886; and joined 
the Missouri Valley Bridge & Iron Works 
Co., at Leavenworth, again, 1887-89. He 
was assistant engineer at the Texas agency 
of the same company, 1889-91, and took full 
charge of the agency, 1891-95, obtaining 
many large contracts, among which may be 
mentioned the Galveston Bay Bridge, two 
miles long, connecting Galveston Island with 
the mainland. He also obtained a contract 
from the Texas & Pacific R. R. Co. for some 
difficult foundation work on the Atchafalaya 
River in Louisiana. He was in the main 
oflSce of the Missouri Valley Bridge & Iron 
Works Co., Leavenworth, 1895-96, and as- 
sistant engineer with the Schultz Bridge & 
Iron Co., McKee's Rocks, Allegheny County, 
Pa., 1896-99. In 1899 Mr. Freygang, to- 
gether with Mr. A. A. Trocon, established 
the Midland Bridge Co., Kansas City, Mo. 
This firm is still doing an active business as 
bridge contractors, and as designers of 
bridges, viaducts, foundations, steel struc- 
tures, etc. 

Fridenberg, Henry L. (M.E., '94), was a 
student in the School of Mines, Columbia 
University, 1894-95 ; with the Stanley Elec- 
tric Manufacturing Co., Pittsfield, Mass., 
1895-97, and became superintendent of con- 
struction in the New England office of the 
Manhattan Concrete Co. in 1897. In the lat- 
ter part of that year he was transferred to 
the main office in New York, and in 1899, 
jointly with Mr. J- E. Sparrow, he pur- 
chased the business and continued it, under 
the name of Sparrow, Fridenberg, & Co., 
until 1901, when Mr. Fridenberg engaged in 
professional work as consulting electrical en- 
gineer, and is now secretary and manager 
of the Electric Utilities Co., New York. He 
is an associate member of the American In- 
stitute of Electrical Engineers. 



Fuller, Arthur Ames (M.E., '88), was 
born in Providence, R. I., October 19, 1862. 
He was Assistant Professor of Engineering 
and Physics at the Missouri State University, 
for the collegiate year 1888-89, ^"t resigned 
at the beginning of his second year to take 
charge of the machine-shops of the Builders' 
Iron Foundry at Providence, R. I., which 
had then been awarded its first contract from 
the United States government for the fab- 
rication of 12-inch breech-loading rifled mor- 
tars. Under his direction the shops were 
fitted for this work, and special tools were 
designed and built. The latter included a 
rifling-machine, a combined threading- and 
slotting-machine, a breech-milling machine, 
and an adjustable furnace to heat steel hoops 
of various sizes by the impingement of gas 
flames against the hoops. The registering 




A. A. Fuller 

instrument for the Venturi water-meter was 
designed and. developed under his direction. 
This instrument has made practical the util- 
ization of the principles of Torricelli's 
theorem and the Venturi tube for the com- 
mercial purpose of measuring the quantity 
of liquids flowing through pipes. In all of 
this work he desires to acknowledge the able 
assistance of Mr. F. N. Connet and Mr. W. 
W. Jackson, both Stevens graduates. He 
has had charge of some large machine-shop 
construction, including steam-engines, mor- 
tar-carriages, printing-presses, etc., as well 



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as the manufacture of smaller products, such 
as hot-air engines, wood-trimmers, grinding 
and polishing machinery, etc. In 1899 he 
resigned his position at the Builders' Iron 
Foundry to accept the superintendence of 
the Providence Engineering Works, where 
he is now engaged. 

Mr. Fuller was president of the Provi- 
dence Association of Mechanical Engineers 
for the first two years of its existence, and 
is the author of the following papers : 

"Fabrication of 12-inch Mortars," Stevens 
Indicator, July and October, i8go. 

"American Coast-Defense Mortars," Cassier's 
Alagazine, Msij, 1895. 

"Specification of Error Limits for Machine- 
Tool Construction," American Machinist, Sep- 
tember 16, 1897. 

"Standard Fits in the Machine Shop," Ma- 
chinery, November, 1897. 

"Wages and Production," Alachinery, March, 
1899. 

He is a member of the Providence Associa- 
tion of Mechanical Engineers, the Provi- 
dence Public Education Association, and of 
the Religious Education Association (Na- 
tional). 

Mr. Fuller is the son of Leonard F. and 
Mary (Hunt) Fuller. He married Annie L. 
Ide, September 26, 1889. 

Furman, Franklin DeR. (M.E., '93), Pro- 
fessor of Mechanical Drawing and Design- 
ing at Stevens Institute of Technology. For 
biography, see page 271. 

Furman, Job R. (M.E., '85), was with Otis 
Bros. & Co., manufacturers of elevators and 
hoisting-machinery. New York, until 1896, 
during the last two years of which engage- 
ment he held the position of acting chief en- 
gineer. He then resigned to become secre- 
tary and treasurer for Charles F. Parker & 
Co., engineers and contractors. New York, 
until the fall of 1898, when he went to Lon- 
don, where he conducted professional engi- 
neering work as consulting and contracting 
engineer. He was one of the sub-contractors 
on the $15,000,000 Central London Railway, 
installing the " lifts," or elevators, in connec- 
tion therewith, being also consulting engi- 
neer to the Sprague Electric Elevator Co. of 
America. He returned to New York in 
1901, and is now assistant chief engineer of 



the Otis Elevator Co. He is a member of 
the American Society of Civil Engineers, 
and of the Engineers' Club of New York. 




J. R. Furman 

Gallaher, E. B. (M.E., '94), engaged in 
professional engineering work on his own 
account, in 1894; was employed in the gas- 
engine department of Patterson, Gottfried, 
& Htmter, New York, 1896-97; and was gen- 
eral superintendent of the New York Air 
Compressor Co., 1897-98, designing air-com- 
pressors. He organized and became presi- 
dent and general manager of the Keystone 
Motor Co., Philadelphia, Pa., in 1898, and 
organized the Searchmont Motor Co., which 
absorbed the Keystone Co., and became its 
vice-president and general manager, 1899- 
1900. This company was reorganized with 
double capital under the name of the Four- 
nier-Searchmont Automobile Co., Mr. Galla- 
her being its first vice-president and general 
manager, 1900-02. In December, 1902, he 
became general manager of the Mobile Com- 
pany of America, with offices in New York. 
From 1898 to 1903 he designed the entire 
product of the Keystone Motor Co., the 
Searchmont Motor Co., and the Fournier- 
Searchmont Automobile Co., eleven types of 
automobiles being constructed by him during 
this period, and he took full charge of the 
companies' affairs, laying out and operating 
their extensive shops. The output reached a 
production of one complete automobile per 



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day. Mr. Gallaher is at present general 
sales agent for the United States for the 
Georges Richard-Brasier automobiles. 

Gantt, Henry Lawrence (M.E., '84), was 
born in Calvert County, Md., May 20, 1861. 




H. L. Gantt 

His early education was received at McDon- 
ough School, near Baltimore, and he gradu- 
ated from Johns Hopkins University in 1880. 
He was draughtsman for Poole & Hunt, Bal- 
timore, Md., 1884-86; in charge of the man- 
ual-training department of a technical school, 
1886-87; with the Midvale Steel Co.. first as 
assistant in the engineering department, and 
then as superintendent of the steel-casting 
department, 1887-93 ; and with the American 
Steel Car Wheel Co., 1893. He practised as 
a consulting engineer in Philadelphia, Pa., 
1894-95, building during that time a number 
of glass furnaces ; was superintendent of the 
American Steel Casting Co.. 1895-96; super- 
intendent of the Simonds Rolling Machine 
Co., Fitchburg, Mass., 1897-98; and with the 
Bethlehem Steel Co., as engineer, 1899-1901. 
From 1902 to date he has been consulting 
engineer to the American Locomotive Co., 
Schenectady, N. Y. 

Mr. Gantt has taken out a patent for heat- 
ing and melting iron, etc., also for a high- 
temperature furnace, and in conjunction 
with Mr. G. H. Chase has patented a process 
of casting armor. He has presented several 
papers at the meetings of the American So- 



ciety of Mechanical Engineers, on " Steel 
Castings," " Recent Improvements in the 
Manufacture of Steel Castings," " A Bonus 
System of Rewarding Labor," and " A 
Graphical Daily Balance in Manufacture." 
A paper entitled " A New High-Tempera- 
ture Furnace " was read by him before the 
Franklin Institute, Philadelphia, Nov. 17, 
1896. Mr. Gantt is an associate member of 
the Society of Naval Architects and Marine 
Engineers, and a member of the American 
Society of Mechanical Engineers, and of the 
Beta Theta Pi fraternity. 

Mr. Gantt is the son of Virgil and Mary 
Jane (Stuart) Gantt. His ancestors on both 
sides came to this country about 1650 and 
settled in southern Maryland, and members 
of both families have figured in Maryland 
history for over 200 years. He married 
Mary Eliza Snow, November 29, 1899, and 
they have one child, Margaret Heighe Gantt. 

Ganz, Albert F. (M.E., '95), Professor of 
Electrical Engineering at Stevens Institute 
of Technology. For biography, see page 270. 

Garcia, Celestino (M.E., 96), has been 
draughtsman with the De La Vergne Re- 
frigerating Machine Co., New York, 1896- 
98 ; an instructor in mechanical drawing at 
Cooper Institute ; and with the firm of 
Garcia, Pando, & Co., New York. He is a 
member of the Tau Beta Pi fraternity. 

Gardiner, F. W. (M.E., '92), entered the 
locomotive shops of the New York Central 
& Hudson River Railroad, West Albany, 
N. Y., as draughtsman, and after a short 
time was transferred to the erection shop as 
helper to a machinist, and later, from the 
shop, to be assistant to P. H. Dudley, engi- 
neer of tests for the road. The work under 
Mr. Dudley consisted in making an exhaus- 
tive examination of the merits of the West- 
inghouse and New York air brakes. About 
the time these tests were finished the road 
began to introduce the block-signal system, 
and Mr. Gardiner was transferred to the 
office of superintendent of signals on the 
Mohawk Division, extending from Albany 
to Syracuse. His work here consisted in 
laying an eight-wire cable from Albany to 
Syracuse and in inspecting the electrical and 
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block signals as it was installed by the con- 
tractor. When this work was finished he 
went with Mr. Dudley to Scranton, Pa., to 
inspect rails. He spent about seven months 
at the mill, and during that time inspected 
about 80,000 tons of rails of various weights. 
From Scranton he went to New York to 
enter the steel building business, and has 
been connected with the Atlas Iron Co., Lew- 
inson & Just, and the Jackson Architectural 
Iron Works. In 1898 he became associated 
with M. L. Vanderkloot in consulting and 
contracting engineering work, continuing in 
this line about a year^ when he became assist- 
ant engineer for the Manhattan Railway Co., 
of New York, with which lines he is still 
connected. In 1903 he was made principal 
assistant engineer for the Manhattan Railway 
Division of the Interborough Rapid Transit 
Co. He was elected a member of the Amer- 
ican Society of Civil Engineers in 1899. 

Gately, Charles L. (M.E., '84), was with 
the Cane Umbrella Co., 1884-88; with the 
Lombard Investment Co., 1888-89; superin- 
tendent of the heating department of the 
Safety Car Heating & Lighting Co., 1889- 
93 ; with the United Wood Gas Co., 1896-98 ; 
manager of the railroad department of the 
New York Belting & Packing Co., Ltd., 
1898-1900; with the Rubber Manufacturing 
Co., of New York, 1900-02 ; and has been 
with the Gold Car Heating & Lighting Co., 
New York, from 1902 to date. 

Cause, Frederick Taylor (M.E., '91), was 
born in Kennett Square, Chester County, 
Pa., March 16, 1866. Between the ages of 16 
and 21 he took a regular course in marine 
engine building in the shipyard of the Har- 
lan & Hollingsworth Co., Wilmington, Dela- 
ware, of which his uncle was president. 
Upon graduation he was immediately en- 
gaged by the Department of Tests of the In- 
stitute, and under Prof. Denton's direction 
made a series of tests for the Thompson & 
Bedford Department of the Standard Oil 
Co., of New York, to determine the practica- 
bility of lubricating the main engines of the 
large Atlantic steamers with pure mineral 
oil. This work was done in the engine- 
rooms of a large number of steamers, and in 
all comprised about forty trips across the At- 
lantic. After about one year he was trans- 



ferred from the Department of Tests to the 
Thompson & Bedford Department, continuing 
the experiments on marine engine oil, and 
acting in an advisory capacity to the Stand- 
ard Oil Company's agents in European 
countries until the end of 1894. He then 
made a special trip around the world, visiting 
especially India, Burma, Java, China, and 
Japan. The reports prepared by him on this 
trip resulted in his appointment as business 
manager in the Far East, with headquarters 
at Yokohama, Japan, where he is at present 
located. 

An abstract of Mr. Cause's thesis on 
" Compressed Air " was published in the 
Transactions of the American Society of 
Mechanical Engineers and reprinted in the 
American Machinist. An abstract of his re- 




F. T. Gause 

port from Paris on the " Popp System of 
Compressed Air " forms part of the Trans- 
actions of the American Association for the 
Advancement of Science. Mr. Gause is a 
member of the American Society of Mechan- 
ical Engineers; the American Association 
for the Advancement of Science; the Engi- 
neers' Club of New York ; the American 
Asiatic Association ; the Yokohama United 
Club; and of the Sigma Chi fraternity. 

Mr. Gause is the son of S. Irwin and Edith 
M. Gause. His ancestors were of English 
and German extraction, resident in Pennsyl- 
vania for several generations, and generally 



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members of the Society of Friends. He 
married Gertrude Grier, June 26, 1900, and 
they have one child, Sarah Boileau Gause. 

Gerdes, Henry Theodore (M.E., '02), was 
born in New York city August 17, 1877; 




H. T. Gerdes 

son of John Henry and Catherine Tienken 
Gerdes. He was with M. H. Treadwell & 
Co., New York, 1902-04; and is now inspec- 
tor in the mechanical engineer's office. New 
York Central Railroad Co., New York city. 

Gerdes, Theodore Richard Nicholas (M.E., 
'02), was born in New York city December 
12, 1879; son of John Henry and Catherine 
Tienken Gerdes, and of German descent. 
He is inspector of electric subways for the 
Interborough Rapid Transit Co., New York. 
He is an associate member of the American 
Institute of Electrical Engineers. 



Telegram, Harpers' Weekly, and New York 
Mirror. He wrote several poems and serial 
stories ; including among the latter " The 
Death of Haroun al Raschid," published in 
the Herald of Halifax, N. S., and " Sweet 
Marjory, a Story of the Revolutionary War." 
He was in the employ of the United States 
Heveenoid Co., New York^ for about a year. 
About this time his health began to fail, and 
he went to Mexico, and thence to London, 
England, where he accepted a position as 
draughtsman and general foreign corre- 
spondent for the firm of Herbert & Co., pat- 
ent agents. He continued in this position 
until compelled to leave it owing to his weak 
physical condition. He returned to the 
United States, and died in 1885. 

Geyer, William E. (Ph.D., 'yy), Professor 
of Physics at Stevens Institute of Technol- 
ogy. For biography, see page 238. 




R. N. Gerdes 



Gerner, Richard (M.E., '78), was asso- 
ciated with his father, under the firm name 
of Henry Gerner & Co., in the business of 
patent solicitors in New York from 1878 to 
1880. During that time the firm issued a 
periodical called the Patent Right Gazette, 
the matter for which was principally written 
by Mr. Richard Gerner, who at the same 
time contributed to Oliver Optic's Magazine, 
The Youths' Companion, Scientific Amateur, 
Nezv York Herald, Conuncrcial Advertiser, 



Gibbs, Alfred Wolcott (M.E., '78), was 
born in Fort Filmore, N. M., October 27, 
1856. He was an apprentice in the shops of 
the Pennsylvania Railroad Co., at Altoona, 
Pa., 1879-81 ; was employed as draughtsman 
by the Richmond & Allegheny Railroad, at 
Richmond, Va., 1881 ; as draughtsman by the 
Richmond & Danville Railroad, at Rich- 
mond, Va., 1881-86; as master mechanic of 
the Atlanta & Charlotte Division of the same 
company, at Atlanta, Ga., 1886-88; and in 



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the same capacity on the Virginia Midland 
Division of that road, at Alexandria, Va., 
1888-90. He was in the employ of the Cen- 
tral Railroad of Georgia as assistant super- 
intendent and superintendent of motive 
power, at Savannah, Ga., 1890-92, when he 
re-entered the service of the Richmond & 
Danville Railroard as master mechanic of the 
Atlanta & Charlotte Division, at Atlanta, 
Ga., and remained until July i, 1893. He 
then became assistant mechanical engineer 
with the Pennsylvania Railroad Co., at Al- 
toona, Pa., which position he held until 
.September i, 1902, when he was appointed 
superintendent of motive power of the Phila- 
delphia, Baltimore, & Washington Railroad, 
at Philadelphia, Pa. On January i, 1903, he 
was appointed to his present position of gen- 
eral superintendent of motive power of the 
Pennsylvania Lines East of Pittsburg and 
Erie. He was a member of the Committee 
on Locomotive Front Ends, which made its 
report at the recent meeting of the Master 
Mechanics' Association. In 1900 he pre- 
sented a written discussion on the subject of 
" Ton-Mile Statistics " before the Western 
Railway Club. He is a member of the Amer- 
ican Railway Master Mechanics' Association, 
the Master Car Builders' Association, the 
Engineers' Club, New York, and of the Rit- 
tenhouse Club, Philadelphia. 

Mr. Gibbs is the son of Alfred and P. B". 
(Blair) Gibbs. He married Marianne Skel- 
ton, March 12, 1890, and they have one child, 
Marianne Skelton Gibbs. 

Gibbs, George (M.E., '82), was born in 
Chicago, 111., April 19, 1861 ; son of F. S. 
and Eliza H. Gibbs. The Gibbs family have 
lived in Newport, R. L, for many genera- 
tions. His paternal grandmother was a 
daughter of Oliver Wolcott, Secretary of the 
Treasury under Washington, and grand- 
daughter of Oliver Wolcott, Sr., signer of 
the Declaration of Independence. 

Mr. Gibbs was assistant to Thomas A. 
Edison, in his private laboratory in New 
York, 1882; in charge of the meter depart- 
ment of the Edison Electric Illummating Co., 
New York, 1882-83; chemist to the Oxford 
Copper & Sulphur Co., Bergen Point, N. J., 
1883-85; engineer of tests of the Chicago, 
Milwaukee, & St. Paul Railway Co., 1885- 
87 ; mechanical engineer of the same com- 



pany, 1887-97, having charge of the testing 
and experimental work for the road, as well 
as of car, locomotive, and machinery design, 
and being also head of the signal depart- 
ment; consulting engineer to the Illinois 
Steel Co., 1894-97; and president of the 
Gibbs Electric Co., Milwaukee, Wis., 1897. 
In 1898 this latter company was sold to the 
Westinghouse Electric & Manufacturing Co., 
and Mr. Gibbs removed to Philadelphia, be- 
coming connected jointly, as consulting en- 




George Gibbs 

gineer, with the Baldwin Locomotive Works, 
Philadelphia, and the Westinghouse Electric 
& Manufacturing Co., Pittsburg, his special 
work in both companies being in the field of 
heavy electric traction engines and locomo- 
tives. 

While engaged in the above capacity Mr. 
Gibbs visited Europe a number of times; 
acted as chief engineer of the British West- 
inghouse Electric & Manufacturing Co., Ltd., 
London ; the Westinghouse Electric Com- 
pany, Ltd., London; the Societe Industrielle 
d'Electricite Precedes Westinghouse, Paris ; 
the Westinghouse Electricitats-Actiengesell- 
schaft, Berlin ; and the Societe Anonyme 
Westinghouse, St. Petersburg; and made 
plans for the electrification of the Metropol- 
itan and the Metropolitan & District railways 
in London, and of the Mersey Railway, 
Liverpool. 

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the above companies and became consulting 
engineer to the Rapid Transit Subway Con- 
struction Co. (afterward the Interborough 
Rapid Transit Co.), New York; member of 
the Board of Engineers of the Pennsylvania 
Railroad, New York tunnel lines and ter- 
minals ; electrical engineer to the Long 
Island R. R. Co. ; member of the Electric 
Traction Commission of the New York Cen- 
tral & Hudson River Railroad Co. ; first vice- 
president of Westinghouse, Church, Kerr, & 
Co. ; and adviser in engineering to the Car- 
negie Institution, Washington, D. C, all of 
which positions are still held by him. 

The following is a partial list of patents 
taken out by Mr. Gibbs for devices used in 
railway service : Steam-heat coupling, 1887; 
a fire-extinguisher for railway cars, and an 
interlocking switch and signal stand, 1888; 
an electric berth-lamp for sleeping-cars, and 
an electric car-lighting system, 1889; a 
dumping-car for ore traffic, and a car-light- 
ing system, 1891 ; a car-spring, and an elec- 
tric connection for car-lighting, 1892; an 
interlocking switch and signal apparatus for 
railway crossings, an electric locking for 
interlocked crossings, and a derailing device 
for railway tracks, 1896; a motor suspension, 
1898; a car vestibule, a system of train con- 
trol, and a signaling system, 1903. He is also 
the designer and patentee of the first all-steel 
incombustible passenger cars ever built, of 
which 200 are now in use by the Inter- 
borough Rapid Transit Co., of New York. 

Mr. Gibbs is a past president of the West- 
ern Railway Club, a member of the Amer- 
ican Society of Mechanical Engineers; the 
American Society of Civil Engineers; the 
Institution of Civil Engineers of England; 
the Lake Superior Mining Institute ; the 
Master Car Builders' Association ; and of 
the Railway Master Mechanics' Association. 
He has been on a number of committees of 
the two last-named societies; was chairman 
of the Master Mechanics' Association com- 
mittee to determine the economy, etc., of 
compound locomotives, which carried on ex- 
tensive road tests of locomotives ; and was a 
member of the Master Car Builders' Asso- 
ciation committee in 1896 to design a stand- 
ard axle for forty-ton freight cars. He was 
also a member of the Transportation De- 
partment Jury of Awards at the World's 
Fair, 1893. 



To the Western Railway Club proceedings 
for the past eight years he has contributed a 
number of papers, including : " Steam Heat- 
ing for Railway Cars ;" " Testing Labora- 
tories for Railways ;" " Purification of Water 
for Locomotive Boilers ;" " Railway Signal- 
ing;" "Locomotive Tests;" "Car-Lighting 
Systems ;" and " Equipment at the World's 
Fair, 1893." He presented a paper to the 
New York Railroad Club in March, 1898, on 
" Electric Distribution of Power," which at- 
tracted wide attention. It treated of the de- 
scription of electric transmission systems, 
direct and alternating current apparatus, 
suggestions on the manner of laying out the 
system, and electric distribution at the Bald- 
win Locomotive Works. He is also the 
author of an article on " Locomotives " in 
the loth edition of the " Encyclopaedia Bri- 
tannica." 

Mr. Gibbs is a member of the University, 
Century, and Down-Town clubs. New York ; 
of the Rittenhouse Club, Philadelphia; and 
of the Theta Xi fraternity of Stevens Insti- 
tute. 

Gibbs, W. E. (M.E., '82), was located 
in New York city, 1883-89; in Elizabeth, 
N. J., 1889-94; in New York, 1894-98; and 
has been with Knight Bros., New York, from 
1898 to date. 

Giberga, Ovidio (M.E., '86), after grad- 
uation, took charge of work as sub-chief of 
section at Emperador, on the Panama Canal, 
and in the diversion of the several affluents 
of the Chagres River. Besides filling en- 
gagements in several civil engineering works, 
he assisted in substituting modern improved 
American locomotives and drills for the low 
efficiency Belgian locomotives and steam 
drills in use, introducing American ideas 
and methods wherever possible. From 1888 
to 1894 he was in Cuba, installing sugar and 
electrical machinery on plantations, and de- 
signing electric lighting and tramway plants 
for several cities. In 1895 he took charge of 
the gas works and electric-light plant of the 
Spanish American Light & Power Co., of 
Havana, Cuba, increasing their capacity 
and economy of running by the introduction 
of modern machinery. He was engaged in 
this work for a period of five years, when 
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of the Engineering Department of the city of 
Havana and of its electrozone plant. In 
1900 he was elected a director of the Albear 
Canal. At the same time, through competi- 
tive examination, he obtained the Chair of 
Electricity at the School of Engineers and 
Architects of Havana, and was appointed 
director of that School, which position he 
holds at the present time. 

Gibson, Frederick Montague (M.E., 'oi), 
was born in Dover, N. J., November 16, 
1877; son of John Simpson and Ella Mary 
(Gordon) Gibson. He has been with the 




F. M. Gibson 

Cambria Steel Co., Johnstown, Pa., as assist- 
ant to steam engineer, from 1901 to date. 
He is a member of the Theta Xi fraternity. 

Gibson, William Loan (M.E., 94), was 
born in Brooklyn, N. Y., April 22, 1873. He 
was foreman in the erecting-shops and 
draughtsman for the Snow Steam Pump 
Works, Buffalo, N. Y., 1894-96; with the 
Mexican National Railroad, at Mexico City, 
Mex., as foreman on grading, draughtsman 
in construction department, and instrument- 
man in engineers' camp, 1896-99; division 
engineer with S. Pearson & Son, on the re- 
construction of the National Railway of the 
Isthmus of Tehuantepec (Ferro Carril 
Nacional del Istmo de Tehuantepec), 1899- 
1002; and has been resident engineer in 



charge of erection of the Henry R. Worth- 
ington new pumping-engine plant at Harri- 
son, N. J., from 1902 to date. 

Mr. Gibson is the son of George R., and 
Mary (Loan) Gibson, of New England an- 
cestry. He married Socorro Farias, Decem- 
ber 13, 1899, and they have three children, 
Mary, William, and Robert Gibson. 

Gilders leeve, David H. (M.E., '89), was 
with the United Gas Improvement Co. of 
Philadelphia, 1889-90; with the Archer Gas 
Fuel Co., Newark, N. J., 1891-94; mechani- 
cal engineer with the Yaryan Co., New 
York, 1894-97; Eastern representative of the 
Snow Steam Pump Works, New York, 1897- 
98; and with the Blake-Knowles Pump Co., 
New York, 1898. He also acted as con- 
sulting engineer for several firms and com- 
panies. He was appointed first lieutenant 
in the 2d Regiment, U. S. Volunteer Engi- 
neers, in the war with Spain. After the war 
he remained in Cuba and took charge 
of the installation of the electrozone plant 
in Havana for the purpose of disinfecting 
the streets and sewage system of the city, 
and the harbor. Upon the completion of 
this work Mr. Gildersleeve returned to the 
United States and became manager of the 
New York office of the Cleveland Pneumatic 
Tool Co., and he has since practised as con- 
sulting and contracting engineer in New 
York. 

Gilmore, J. W. (M.E., '94), was assistant 
engineer with the Hall Signal Co., 1894-95 ; 
assistant engineer with the Mining & Dredg- 
ing Power Co., New York, 1895 ; secretary 
of the C. J. Field Co., consulting electrical 
engineers. New York, 1895-96; engineer in 
charge of the construction of track, line- 
work, power-house, etc., of the Union Trac- 
tion Co. of New Jersey, 1896-97; and chief 
engineer and superintendent of this com- 
pany, 1897-98. In May, 1898, he enlisted 
for the Spanish war and served in the United 
States Navy in the capacity of assistant en- 
gineer. In April, 1899, he again entered the 
service of the Hall Signal Co. as engineer 
at their works at Garwood, N. J., and in the 
spring of 1901 was transferred to the office 
of the company at Chicago, 111. From 1903 
to date he has been with the Crouch & Fitz- 
gerald Co., New York. 



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Glasgow, Arthur Graham (M.E., '85), 
was born in Buchanan, Va., May 30, 1865. 
He was in the service of the United Gas Im- 
provement Co. from 1885 to 1891 ; as 
draughtsman and constructor, 1885-86; as 




A. G. Glasgow 

secretary and manager (in the Improvement 
Company's interests) of the Lewiston (Me.) 
Gas Light Co., 1886-87; ^s personal assist- 
ant to the Improvement Company's general 
superintendent, 1887-88; as superintendent 
(in the Improvement Company's interests) 
of the Kansas City Gas Light & Coke Co., 
1888-90; and as general inspector of the 
Improvement Co., 1890-91. In December, 

1891, Mr. Glasgow became engineer and gen- 
eral manager of the Standard Gas Light Co. 
of the City of New York, and from May, 

1892, to date, he has been managing partner 
in Europe of the firm of Humphreys & Glas- 
gow, contracting and constructing gas engi- 
neers. Under his direction, this firm has 
designed, constructed, and brought into suc- 
cessful operation carburetted water-gas 
works throughout the United Kingdom and 
the continent of Europe, as well as in Aus- 
tralia, New Zealand, China, etc., aggregating 
a total productive capacity of over 130,000,- 
000 cubic feet daily. Mr. Glasgow gave 
extensive evidence before the Water Gas 
Committee of the British Home Office in 
1898, and was president of the official dele- 
gation representing the United States Gov- 



ernment at the World's Gas Congress at 
Paris in 1900. 

Mr. Glasgow is the author of numerous es- 
says, among which are the following: 
" Practical Efficiency of a Carburetted 
Water-Gas Setting," presented to the 
American Gas Light Association, 1890; 
" Carburetted Water Gas," and " Carburetted 
Water-Gas Apparatus," presented to the In- 
corporated Institution of Gas Engineers, 
London, 1891 and 1893; "Notes on Car- 
buretted Water Gas," presented to the 
Cleveland Institution of Engineers, Middles- 
boro', England, 1897; "Carburetted Water 
Gas and the Home Office Inquiry," a lecture 
before the Incorporated Gas Institute, Lon- 
don, 1899; "Carburetted Water Gas as a 
Coal-Gas Auxiliary," presented to the Amer- 
ican Gas Light Association, October, 1899, 
for which Mr. Glasgow received the Beal 
medal, which is awarded for " the best pa- 
per " presented to the Association during the 
year. The committee of award said: 

"Mr. Glasgow treated his subject in a mas- 
terly manner. The paper is broad in its scope 
and of great and general usefulness to the gas 
engineer. The deductions are reached by the 
author after a thorough analytical examination 
of all the underlying bases of gas-manufacture. 
The paper exhibits, in a marked degree, the re- 
sults of the large and varied experience of a gas 
engineer." 

In 1903 he presented to the American Gas 
Light Association of Detroit a paper entitled 
" The Policy of Gas Enrichment; Illustrated 
by London Practice." He delivered the ad- 
dress to the Stevens Graduating Class of 
1901. 

Mr. Glasgow is a member of the Institu- 
tion of Civil Engineers of Great Britain; of 
the Institution of Mechanical Engineers of 
Great Britain ; the American Society of Me- 
chanical Engineers; the American Society 
of Civil Engineers; the American Gas Light 
Association ; and of the Western Gas Asso- 
ciation. He is also a member of the 
Westmoreland and Commonwealth clubs, of 
Richmond, Va. ; the Lotos Club, of New 
York; the Wellington, Whitehall, and Pil- 
grims' clubs of London; and of the Delta 
Tau Delta fraternity. 

Mr. Glasgow is the son of Francis Thomas 
and Anne Jane (Gholson) Glasgow, and is 
of Scotch-Irish, English, and Swiss descent. 



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He married Margaret Elisabeth Branch, Oc- 
tober I, 1901, and they have one daughter, 
Margaret Gholson Glasgow. 

Gnade, Edward Richard (M.E., '94), was 
born in Rutherford, N. J., August 23, 1874; 
son of Richard E., and Sarah Frances Butler 
Gnade. After a few months' shop-work in 
the Cooke Locomotive Works he was em- 
ployed as draughtsman, with the National 
Meter Co., Brooklyn, N. Y., for about iS 
months, and then took a position with the 
International Correspondence Schools of 
Scranton, Pa., taking charge of the instruc- 
tion in mechanical drawing. In July, 1897, 
he entered the service of the Dickson Manu- 
facturing Co., Scranton, Pa., as draughts- 
man, and a year later took his present posi- 
tion as mechanical engineer for the Oil Well 
Supply Co., Oil City, Pa., manufacturing gas 
and steam engines and all apparatus and ap- 
pliances for the production of petroleum. 
He is a junior member of the American 
Society of Mechanical Engineers. 

Goldsmith, James Alfred (M.E., '93), was 
born in New York city January 29, 1873. 
He has been connected with the firm of Hess, 
Goldsmith & Co., silk manufacturers, Wilkes- 
barre, Pa., from 1893 to date; as general 




Paterson, N. J., and of the Reform Club, 
New York. 

Mf. Goldsmith is the son of Louis and 
Hannah Fuller Goldsmith. He married Kate 
Morse Price, Septembei- 13, 1898, and they 
have two children, Katherine Price and 
Margaret Fuller Goldsmith. 

Goode, Curtis Bates (M.E., '01), was born 
in Des Moines, Iowa, May 13, 1880; son of 
L. W. and H. S. (Newton) Goode. He was 
a special apprentice in the mechanical de- 
partment of the Atchison, Topeka, & Santa 
Fe Railway Co., San Bernardino, Cal., spe- 
cializing in oil-burning work for locomotive 
and stationary practice. He is a member of 
the Western Railway Club. 

Grady, Charles Benedict (M.E., '97), was 
born in West Orange, N. J., August 29, 




manager 1897, and as member of the firm 
1903. He is a member of the Hamilton Club, 



Gkady 



1876; son of Joseph B. F. and Frances A. 
(Benedict) Grady. He was draughtsman 
with Milliken Bros., engineers and contrac- 
tors. New York, 1897-99; with the Oxnard 
Construction Co., New York, engaged in 
erecting and equipping beet-sugar plants in 
various parts of the country, 1899-1901 ; 
and has been in the engineering department 
of the New York Edison Co., New York, 
designing steam power plants for electric 
lighting and trolley service, from 1901 to 
date. He is now resident engineer of the 



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company's Waterside Power Station in New 
York city. He is a member of Alpha Tau 
Omega fraternity. 

Graf, Carl H. (M.E., '90), was born in 
Newark, N. J., January 23, 1869. He was 
with the Atlantic Refining Co., Philadelphia, 
1890; assistant to the manager of the Law- 
rence Gas Co., Lawrence, Mass., 1890-98, and 
in 1892 was made superintendent of its gas 
department, his work consisting of a general 
supervision of the process of gas manufac- 
ture and distribution as well as of work of 
construction and erection. He was in charge 
of the gas department of the Hackensack 
Gas & Electric Co., Hackensack, N. J., 1898- 
99 ; engineer of the gas department of the 
Gas & Electric Co., of Bergen County, N. J., 
a consolidation of five lighting companies, 
1899-1903. In 1903 he became general super- 
intendent of the Tilford-Lynn Syndicate, 
which controls some fifteen gas and electric 
companies in various States and has its office 
in New York. He is now located at Detroit 
with the J. T. Lynn Co. He is a member 
of the American Gas Light Association, the 
New England Association of Gas Engineers, 
and of the Delta Tau Delta fraternity. 

Mr. Graf is the son of Herman and Adol- 




C. H. Graf 

phine Graf. He married Corinne Battell, 
November 18, 1896, and they have two chil- 
dren, Madeline and Eleanor Graf. 



Graham, F. D. (M.E., '02), is with the Gra- 
ham Transportation Lines, Seabright, N. J. 

Graupner, Paul Charles Augustus (M.E., 
"89), was born in Jersey City, N. J., March 




P. C. A. Graupner 

24, 1867; son of C. A. and Emma Graupner. 
He is a graduate of the Hoboken Academy, 
1879, and of the Stevens School, 1885. He 
was one of the engineering corps of the 
Union Iron Works, 1889-91 ; assistant engi- 
neer to Alfred R. Wolff, heating and venti- 
lating expert, 1891-94; with Macy & Mixer, 
as engineer and designer of their refrig- 
crating-machines of the absorption type, 
and subsequently preparing plans of various 
classes of desulphurization plants of the 
Macy system, 1894-96; consulting engineer 
to Josiah H. Macy; the Agatine Shoe Hook 
& Eyelet Co., and other clients ; and super- 
vising municipal work, 1896 to date. 

Gray, Charles B. (M.E., '99), has been 
with the Pennsylvania Railroad in the shops 
at Altoona, Pa.; and at Buffalo, N. Y. 

Graydon, Samuel D. (M.E., '75), Assist- 
ant Professor of Mechanical Drawing at 
Stevens Institute of Technology. For biog- 
raphy, see page 274. 

Greenebaum, Leon(M.E., '85), was in the 
shipbuilding department of the Union Iron 



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Works, San Francisco, Cal., 1885-88; at the 
Atlas Iron Works, San Francisco, 1888-89 ! 
associated with Mr. Paul G. Hussey (M.E., 
Stevens, '85), 1889-92; then in the employ 
of the Western Meat Co., in the erection and 
equipment of their packing-houses and re- 
frigerating-plant, ultimately taking- charge 
of their engineering and purchasing depart- 
ments, 1892-97; and has been located at San 
Francisco, Cal., 1897 to date, giving attention 
to mining properties in which he is inter- 
ested. Since 1903 he has been president of 
the Bryan Elevator Co., San Francisco. 



son of William N. and Harriett L. (Ely) 
Griswold. He was with the Middle States 
Inspection Bureau, as inspector of special 
risks for thirty-eight companies comprising 
the Bureau, 1893-1900; special agent for 
New Jersey for the Phoenix Assurance Co., 
of London, 1900; and special agent for New 
Jersey and part of New York for the Phoenix 
Insurance Co., of Hartford, Conn., with 
headquarters in New York, from 1901 to 
date. He is a member of Squadron A., 
N. G. S. N. Y., and of the Chi Psi fraternity. 
He married Elsie M. Whitney in June, 1904. 



Greenidge, C. Austin (M.E., '95), was me- 
chanical and electrical engineer with the 
Mount Morris Electric Light Co. of New 
York city, 1896-98, and superintendent 1898- 
99 ; assistant superintendent \\'ith the New 
York Edison Co., 1899-1902; superintendent 
of the electrical department of the Utica Gas 
& Electric Co., Utica., N. Y., from 1902 to 
date. He is an associate member of the Amer- 
ican Institute of Electrical Engineers, and a 
member of the Syracuse Technology Club. 

Gregory, Donald McG. (M.E., '00), was 
born in Oakland, Cal., May 10, 1877; only 
son of Silas Wright and Grace V. Gregory. 
His early education was obtained in Ger- 
many, the Drisler School in New York city, 
and the Stevens Preparatory School. Upon 
graduating he entered the employ of the 
Pintsch Compressing Co., of New York, 
erecting gas-plants in various parts of the 
country, among which may be mentioned 
those at Los Angeles, Cal., and Shreveport, 
La. He was just completing a plant for the 
company at El Paso, Tex., and was about 
to engage in similar work in Mexico, when 
his death occurred, March 11, 1902. 



Griswold, Howard Clifton (M.E., '88), was 
born in Louisville, Ky., February 28, 1866. 
His early education was received in the 
public graded schools of Louisville, Ky. 
With the exception of eighteen months, dur- 
ing which time he was with the Louisville 




H. C. Griswold 



Grelle, C. Edward (M.E., '98), was with 
the New Amsterdam Gas Co., New York, 
1898-99; draughtsman with the American 
Engine Co., Bound Brook, N. J., 1899; with 
Markt & Co., Ltd., Paris, France, 1900. In 
1900 he became secretary of the Willamette 
Boiler Works, Portland, Ore., and he now 
holds the offices of vice-president and man- 
ager. 

Griswold, Harold Ely (M.E., '93), was 
born in New York city October 16, 1870; 



& Nashville Terminal Co., in charge of ter- 
minal improvements at Nashville, Tenn., 
made jointly by the Louisville & Nashville 
Railroad Co. and the ■ Nashville, Chatta- 
nooga, & St. Louis Railroad Co., he has been 
in the employ of the Louisville & Nashville 
Railroad Co., having held during the past 15 
years the positions of draughtsman in chief 
engineer's office, 1888; rodman and assist- 
ant engineer in connection with terminal 
improvements, Cincinnati, O., 1888-89; ^^' 
sistant engineer in charge of masonry con- 



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struction at various places on the Louisville 
& Nashville system, 1889-90; division engi- 
neer on the Louisville, Cincinnati, & Lexing- 
ton division, 1890-98; engineer in charge of 
terminal improvements, Nashville, Tenn., 
made by the Louisville & Nashville Terminal 
Co., 1898-1900; roadmaster of the Knoxville 
division of the Louisville & Nashville Rail- 
road Co., 1900 to 1903; and roadmaster of 
the Louisville, Cincinnati, & Lexington divi- 
sion from 1903 to date. 

Mr. Griswold is the son of Howard M. 
and Anna Grant Griswold. He married Mec 
M. Young, November 16, 1898. 

Gsantner, Otto C. (M.E., '78), was in the 
Engineer Corps of the United States Navy, 
1878-86, and since the latter year has been 
in the Examining Corps of the United States 
Patent Office. 

Gubelman, Frederick P. J. (M.E., '89), 
was born in Hoboken, N. J., January 7, 
1869; son of Theodore Franz and Julia 
Susanna Gubelman. Shortly after graduat- 
ing he entered the employ of the Phoenix 
Iron Works Co., of Meadville, Pa., and had 
charge of the outside erection of steam-boil- 
er and engine plants, electric-light stations, 
etc., besides doing more or less designing of 
compound engines. 

In May, 1890, he engaged with McKee & 
Milson, Paterson, N. J. This firm had the 
contract for building a steel rivetted pipe 
line for the city of Newark, N. J. Mr. Gub- 
elman had entire charge, as engineer, of both 
shop and field work; and retained this posi- 
tion until March, 1893. Messrs. McKee & 
Milson also built half of a pipe system at 
Rochester, N. Y. Up to this time these pipe 
lines were the largest and longest under- 
taken; and the system of conveying water 
by continuous steel rivetted conduits was 
practically new. The Newark line consisted 
of 22 miles of 48-inch pipe and 5 miles of 
36-inch pipe, all rivetted together in a con- 
tinuous shell without expansion joints. This 
portion of the work cost $1,750,000, the 
whole costing about $6,000,000. The Roch- 
ester line consisted of 28 miles of 38-inch 
pipe of a similar construction, and cost about 
$1,250,000. 

In March, 1893, Mr. Gubelman left this 
position to go into contracting on his own 



account. This, however, proved unsuccess- 
ful, and he did some special work in the De- 
partment of Tests of Stevens Institute until 
September, 1894, when he became principal 
assistant to Mr. Robert Swan, supervising 
engineer for the new waterworks of Alle- 
gheny City, Pa. In this position, which he 
retained until July i, 1896, he had entire- 
charge of the designing and construction of 
the waterworks. During this last period 
he w^as also employed at different times by 
the East Jersey Water Co., to look after the 
designing of some of its extensions and 
improvements, including the 42-inch steel 
pipe line connecting its system with the 
Jersey City waterworks. He also practised 
to some extent as consulting engineer in 
various legal controversies, etc. 

On July I, 1896, he engaged as chief en- 
gineer with the firm of T. A. & R. G. Gilles- 
pie, engineers and contractors, of Pittsburg 
and New York, which was engaged in build- 
ing a storage reservoir at Canistear, N. J., 
with a capacity of 2,500,000,000 gallons, a 
water surface of about 440 acres, and four 
separate dams at a cost of about $350,000. 
This firm was reorganized, January i, 1897, 
into the T. A. Gillespie Co., a corporation, in 
which Mr. Gubelman was elected a director 
and also appointed as chief engineer and 
manager of the New York office. In Feb- 
ruary, 1890, he was elected vice-president of 
the Company, a position which, together with 
those of chief engineer and director, he held 
until February, 1903. During that time the 
firm constructed, among other engineering 
works, the following : 

Portions of the Pittsburg, Bessemer, & 
Erie Railroad. 

About eight miles of 50-inch steel rivetted 
pipe for the city of Minneapolis, including 
a double line under the Mississippi River. 

New lines' for the Passaic Water Co., in- 
cluding a crossing under the Passaic River 
by one 42-inch and two 48-inch pipes. 

A large pumping-station and power plant 
at Little Falls, N. J.; the new 51-inch riv- 
etted steel conduit running from Little Falls 
to Newark, a distance of about 9 miles ; and 
a large reservoir on Garrett Mountain, near 
Paterson, which is connected with this pipe 
line. These three pieces of work were done 
for the East Jersey Water Co. and cost about 
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About $600,000 worth of 36-inch and 48- 
inch water-mains for the New York Water 
Department, 1898. 

A large power-development plant at Mas- 
sena, N. Y., designed ultimately to develop 
100,000 horse-power; commenced in 1898 
and completed in 1902. 

A large filtration plant at Little Falls, 
N. J., for the East Jersey Water Co., cost- 
ing about $300,000, constructed in 1901. 

Large mains for the Pittsburg water sys- 
tem, at a cost of about $600,000, 1901. 

On February i, 1903, Mr. Gubelman 
severed his connection with the Gillespie 
corporation and formed the Eastern Con- 
struction Company of New Jersey, general 
contractors, of which he is president. 
Among its contracts is one for the construc- 
tion of part of the new waterworks for Jer- 
sey City, amounting to about $400,000. 

Mr. Gubelman has taken out a patent for 
an automatic air-valve which permits air to 
escape from the high points in a pipe line, 
but allows no water to escape, and, vice 
versa, prevents the formation of a vacuum 
when water is drawn off. His graduating 
thesis, " The Performance of the Steamer 
' Homer Ramsdell,' " was published in the 
Stevens Indicator, VI, 296. 

Mr. Gubelman is a member of the New 
England Water Works Association ; of the 
American Water Works Association ; the 
American Society of Mechanical Engineers ; 
the American Society of Civil Engineers ; 
the Franklin Listitute^ of Philadelphia; the 
University Club of Hudson County, N. J. ; 
the Hamilton Club of Paterson, N. J.; the 
Jersey City Club; the Deal Golf Club, of 
Deal Beach, N. J. ; and of the Tau Beta Pi 
fraternity. 

Guenther, Frederic A. (M.E., '99), has 
been in the electro-chemical department of 
the United Electric Light Co., Springfield, 
Mass., 1899; in the Carnegie Steel Works, 
Duquesne, Pa., 1899-1900; and draughtsman 
with the United Engineering & Contracting 
Co., New York, from 1900 to date. He is a 
member of the Tau Beta Pi fraternity. 

Gunagan, Richard Henry (M.E., '95), was 
born in Chicago, 111., December 2, 1872. He 
was graduated from the Rutherford, N. J., 
public school, and entered the Stevens Insti- 



tute from the Stevens School in 1891. He 
worked with his father, who was a carpenter 
and builder ; was draughtsman for the Cooke 
Locomotive & Machine Co., Paterson, N. J., 
1895-96; in the same capacity for the Gar- 
vin Machine Co., New York, 1896, and in 
the Equipment Department at the United 
States Navy Yard, Brooklyn, N. Y., 1896- 
1902, where also he has been master elec- 
trical machinist from 1902 to date. 

Mr. Gunagan is the son of Thomas C. and 




R. H. Gunagan 

Mary J. (Home) Gunagan. He married 
Florence C. Shugg, January 14, 1898. 

Gunnison, Albert Waldron (M.E., '96), 
was born in St. Louis, Mo., August 12, 1873. 
At an early age he was left an orphan and 
spent most of his life in Brooklyn. He re- 
ceived his education at the Polytechnic In- 
stitute and Stevens Institute. He entered 
the employ of the Pneumatic Tube Co. of 
Philadelphia in January, 1897, and was ac- 
tively engaged upon work connected with 
the installation of the pneumatic tube mail 
system in Greater New York when he was 
stricken with typhoid fever from which he 
died, December i, 1897. The meritorious 
work performed by him upon this contract 
was rewarded by promotion, but the infor- 
mation came too late to be imparted to him. 
He was a member of Theta Xi fraternity. 

Mr. Gunnison was the son of George 



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Stuart and Mary Frances (Waldron) Gun- 
nison. He married Frances Gratia Olena, 




A. W. Gunnison 

December i6, 1896, and they had one child. 
Waldron Olena Gunnison. 



came president and general manager. He is 
now manufacturing electric elevators, and 
is located at the New York branch which is 
conducted under the firm name of the 
National Elevator & Construction Co. He is 




H. F. GURNEY 



Gunther, Charles O. (M.E., '00), Assist- 
ant Professor of Mechanical Drawing at 
Stevens Institute of Technology. For biog- 
raphy, see page 279. 

Gurney, Howard F. (M.E., '92), was born 
in Jersey City, N. J., September 29, 1870. 
He is a graduate of the public grammar and 
high schools of Jersey City, and of Stevens 
School. He was draughtsman with the Cen- 
tral Railroad of New Jersey, Elizabethport, 
N. J., 1892-93 ; draughtsman, shop foreman, 
and superintendent of construction with the 
Sprague Electric Elevator Co., 1893-96; at 
Lockport, N. Y., with the Charles F. Parker 
Co., engineers and contractors, as superin- 
tendent in charge of canal improvement con- 
tract No. 3, Western Division of the Erie 
Canal, involving the deepening of the canal 
for six miles of its length, 1896-97; general 
superintendent of the Metropolitan Electric 
Construction Co., New York, 1897-98; gen- 
eral superintendent of the Sprague Elevator 
Co., 1898-99; and general superintendent of 
construction for the Otis Elevator Co. 1899- 
1904. He then purchased control of the 
National Elevator & Machine Co., and be- 



an associate member of the American Insti- 
tute of Electrical Engineers, and a member 
of the Engineers' Club of New York. 

Mr. Gurney is the son of William H. and 
Annie Gurney. He married Clara L. Dear, 
April 16, 1895, and they have one child, 
Howard F. Gurney, Jr. 

Gutierrez, Jose Rafael (M.E., '00), was 
born in Sancti Spiritus, Cuba, June 14, 1878; 
son of Teresa and Manuel Gutierrez. For a 
short time during 1900 he was draughtsman 
in the Rogers Locomotive Works, Paterson, 
N. J., and then until December, was in the 
City Engineering Department at Havana, 
Cuba. He next became Engineer of Public 
Works, and was engaged in the construction 
of a highway between Sancti Spiritus and 
Placitos, a distance of 42 miles. In June, 
1901, he engaged in professional work for 
himself as a contracting engineer, his first 
work being on the above-mentioned high- 
way, where he completed four bridges, one 
being the largest highway bridge in Cuba. 
It is a Pratt steel bridge with spans of 20, 
27, and 50 meters, making a total length of 
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to this work he has been connected with 
several copper, iron, asbestos, and graphite 
mines ; designer of the Sancti Spiritns elec- 
tric Hght plant ; and contractor for the De- 
partment of Public Works. He is a member 
of Amor y Verdad, Sancti Spiritus. 

Guttin, Henry (M.E., '96), has been en- 
gaged in other than engineering work since 
graduation. During the war with Spain he 
was commissioned assistant engineer with 
the relative rank of acting ensign, U. S. N. 
His home is in New York city. 

Hackstaff, John D. (M.E., '98), was with 
Evans, Almirall, & Co., heating and venti- 
lating engineers, Boston, Mass., 1898-99; 
since which time he has been with W. S. 
Rockwell & Co., New York, later becoming 
a member of the reorganized firm, the Rock- 
well Engineering Co. Mr. Hackstaff' s grad- 
uating thesis, written jointly with Messrs. 
Miller & Lunger, on " The Efficiency of the 
Twin-Screw Steam-Yacht ' Sovereign,' " was 
published in the Stevens Institute Indicator, 
April, 1899. He is a junior member of the 
American Society of Mechanical Engineers. 




J. R. Gutierrez 

Hagar, Arthur Percy (M.E., '02), was 
born in Newark, N. J., August 7, 1880; son 
of George J. and Emma L. (Hubbard) 
Hagar. His paternal ancestry is Scotch and 
Dutch; his mother's French and German. 



On his father's side he is a direct descendant 
of George Ross, a signer of the Declaration 
of Independence. While a student at Stevens 
he was engaged in the compilation and re- 
vision of cyclopaedias. He was an Instructor 
at Stevens Institute during the Supplemen- 
tary Term, 1902; with the Illinois Steel Co., 
South Chicago, 111., in the same year; and 
since then he has been with the Continuous 




A. P. Hagar 

Rail Joint Co. of America, Newark, N. J. 
He is a member of the Tau Beta Pi fra- 
ternity. 

Hagstoz, Arthur Thomas (M.E., '99), 
was born in Camden, N. J., October 29, 1876 ; 
son of Thomas Barwiss and Emma Reed 
Hagstoz. On his father's side he is de- 
scended from a family which came to Phila- 
delphia, Pa., from England, in 1733. His 
maternal ancestors came to Philadelphia 
from Heidenheim, Germany, in 1802. He 
was in the meter department of the Edison 
Electric Illuminating Co., New York, 1899; 
and has been with the T. B. Hagstoz Co., 
Ltd., Philadelphia, Pa., smelters and refiners 
of gold, silver, and lead, from that period to 
date. While in this employ he was sent to 
the smelting department of the Courvoisier- 
Wilcox Manufacturing Co., Newark, N. J., 
and worked on their furnaces for about six 
months. He then returned to Philadelphia 
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of the new furnaces of the T. B. Hagstoz 
Co., Ltd., at the nearby town of Riverside, 
Burlington Co., N. J. In August, 1901, his 
work was transferred to the Philadelphia of- 
fice, where he held the positions of secretary 
and treasurer for over a year. On October 
I, 1902, he located at Riverside, where he has 




A. T. Hagstoz 

since been engaged in general charge of the 
works. He is a member of the Jewellers' 
Club of Philadelphia, Pa., and of the Chi 
Phi and Masonic fraternities, and is presi- 
dent of the Delanco Athletic Association. 
He is also an honorary member of the Vet- 
eran Corps, 1st Regiment, N. G. P. 

Haight, Robert Stanley (M.E., '99), was 
born in Westchester, N. Y. He was 
draughtsman in the engine draughting-room 
of the Newport News Shipbuilding & Dry 
Dock Co., 1899-1900; with the New York 
Shipbuilding Co., Camden, N. J., 1900-01 ; 
and has been assistant to the superintend- 
ing engineer of the Old Dominion Steamship 
Co.', New York, from 1901 to date. His 
graduating thesis, on " Analysis of the Speed 
Trial of the Twin- Screw Steam- Yacht ' Sov- 
ereign,' by D. W. Taylor's Method of Trial 
Analysis," was published in the Stevens In- 
stitute Indicator, April, 1900. He is a mem- 
ber of the Society of Naval Architects and 
Marine Engineers, and of the Delta Tau 
Delta and Tau Beta Pi fraternities. 



Hake, August R. (M.E., '92), was born 
in Hoboken, N. J., March 17, 1872. He 
graduated from the Hoboken Academy in 
1888. He was a member of the engineering 
corps on the Park Avenue Improvement, 
New York Central Railroad, New York, in 
laying out the preliminary survey for over- 
head plate girders, 1892; in the steel-rail 
rolling-mill of the Pennsylvania Steel Co., 
Harrisburg, Pa., 1892-93 ; and has been with 
the Ph. Hake Manufacturing Co., New 
York, from 1893 to date. He is a member 
of the Deutscher Club of Hoboken. 

Hall, Arthur H. (M.E., '90), was in the 
shops of the Spiral-Weld Tube Co., Bloom- 
field, N. J., 1890-91 ; assisted in redesigning 
and superintending the construction of spiral- 
weld tube machines in Germany, 1891-92; 
with Spaulding, Jennings, & Co., in charge 
of their cold-roll-steel and wire-drawing de- 
partment, 1893-94; with the Central Gas 
Light Co., New York, as superintendent of 
street mains, 1894-97; and has been with the 
Central Union Gas Co. and the Northern 
Union Gas Co., as superintendent of distri- 
bution, from 1897 to date. He is a member 
of the American Gas Light Association. 

Hall, Burton Pettinger (M.E., '88), was 
born in New York city, April 19, 1867. He 
has been engaged in steam construction 
work since graduation; as superintendent 
of the New York Steam Fitting Co., has 
had charge of the designing and construc- 
tion of heating, ventilating, and power 
plants which have been installed in some of 
the largest hotels, apartment houses, and 
factories in New York city and vicinity. 
He has also done considerable consulting 
work in the line of power transmission and 
consumption, and at present is the treasurer 
of the New York Steam Fitting Co. He is 
a member of the Theta Xi and Tau Beta Pi 
fraternities. 

Mr. Hall is the son of George F. and 
Mary M. Hall. He married Bertha L. 
Packard, April 19, 1893, and they have one 
child, Clifford Alden Hall. 

Hall, Charles A. (M.E., '87), was with 
Price & Hall, dealers in hardware, etc., Mo- 
bile, Ala., 1887-90; and then became general 
manager of the Mobile Phosphate & Chemi- 



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cal Manufacturing Co., Mobile. In 1899 he 
was elected president of the company, re- 
taining his position as manager, in which 
capacity he had under his direct charge the 
management of the technical department of 
the company, which was engaged in the 
manufacture of sulphuric acid, acid phos- 
phates, guanos, etc. He also planned and 
executed many improvements in the plant. 
In 1901 Mr. Hall sold out his interest in this 
business to devote his time to professional 
work as consulting- and contracting engineer, 
giving special attention to examinations and 
reports of industrial properties, crushing 
and pulverizing plants, fertilizer works, sul- 
phuric-acid plants, etc., at Mobile. 

Hall, Robert Everett (M.E., '95), was born 
in Brooklyn, N. Y., March 15, 1871 ; son of 
George F. and Mary M. (Powers) Hall. 
He was in the department of tests as in- 
spector of materials used in the motive- 
power department of the Baltimore & Ohio 
Railroad, Baltimore, Md., 1895-97; with the 
Hall Steam Power Co., New York, holding 
successively the positions of inspector and 
superintendent, 1897-98; and has been secre- 
tary of the New York Steam Fitting Co. 
from 1898 to date. He is also a director of 
the G. F. Hall Co., New York. Durins: the 




lieutenant) and served as chief engineer of 
the monitor " Jason " until she was put out 
of commission at the conclusion of the war. 
He is a junior member of the American So- 
ciety of Mechanical Engineers ; a member 
of the Society of Naval Architects and 
Marine Engineers ; engineer lieutenant in 
the 2d Naval Battalion, N. M., N. Y., and a 
member of the Delta Tau Delta fraternity. 

Halliday, William Reeder (M.E., '02), 
was born in South Orange, N. T-, November 




war with Spain Mr. Hall entered the navy 
as passed assistant engineer (with rank of 



W. R. Halliday 

2,-], 1879; son of W. S. and M. L. (Pierson) 
Halliday. He was an Instructor in Supple- 
mentary Term work at Stevens Institute, 
1902; labor foreman at the rail mill of the 
Illinois Steel Co., 1902-03 ; and has been 
in the general offices of the Continuous Rail 
Joint Co., Newark, N. J., from 1903 to date. 

Hamilton, Alexander King (M.E., '95), 
was born in Johnstown, Pa., September 10, 
1873. He was in the mechanical depart- 
ment of the Cambria Steel Co., Johnstown, 
1895-1900, doing general experimental work; 
was draughtsman in charge of a squad, 
1900-01 ; assistant to chief draughtsman, 
1901-02; and division engineer with the 
Lackawanna Steel Co., Buffalo, N. Y., in 
charge of the designing and construction 
of new mills, 1902-03. In June of the lat- 
ter year he was appointed assistant engineer 



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to the same company, in charge of all engi- 
neering work, and he now holds the position 
of chief engineer. He is a jmiior member 
of the American Society of Mechanical En- 
gineers and a member of the Beta Theta 
Pi fraternity. 

Mr. Hamilton married, September 15. 
1897. 

Hamilton, James Brown (M.E., '95), was 
1)orn in North Carolina December 25, 1873. 




■ J. B. Hamilton 

He prepared for Stevens Institute at the 
University School, Petersburg, Va. He was 
draughtsman with the Baldwin Locomotive 
Works, Philadelphia, Pa., 1895-97; with the 
Western Electric Co., New York, 1897-98; 
with A. Faber du Faur, consulting engineer. 
New York, 1898-99; and has since been with 
the Mutual Life Insurance Co., of New 
York. He is a member of the Royal Arca- 
num, of Euclid Lodge No. 136, Free and Ac- 
cepted Masons, and of the Theta Xi 
fraternity. 

Mr. Hamilton is the son of Robert A. and 
Martha E. V. Hamilton. He married Helen 
C. Knapp, July 24, 1899, and they have two 
sons, James, Jr., and Alston Hamilton. 



porated in 1897 under the name of the Bland 
Tobacco Co., and since that time he has held 
the position of secretary and treasurer of the 
company. 

Hamilton, William Juel (M.E., '89), was 
born in Albany, N. Y., December 17, 1867; 
son of William A. and Amanda J. (Juel) 
Hamilton. His father's ancestors were of 
New England birth, and their forebears 
came from England, Ireland, and Scotland. 
The first Hamilton in this country settled in 
Massachusetts about the middle of the 17th 
century. His mother's ancestors were 
French Huguenot and English. Mr. Hamil- 
ton received his early education in the Al- 
bany Academy. He has been in the employ 
of the Hendrick Manufacturing Co., Ltd., 
Carbondale, Pa., from 1889 to date, holding 
the position of mechanical engineer until 
1896, purchasing agent, 1896-1902; and me- 
chanical engineer, 1902-03, in which latter 
year he was appointed assistant secretary. 
He is a member of the Scranton, and Scran- 
ton Engineers' clubs, of the New England 
Society of Northeastern Pennsylvania, and 
of the Delta Tau Delta fraternity. 

Hammond, George Overton (M.E., '98), 
was born in New York city April 20, 1874. 




Hamilton, Robert P. (M.E., '94), imme- 
diately upon graduating became a partner in 
the firm of Bland Bros. & Wright, tobacco 
manufacturers. The business was incor- 



G. O. Hammond 



Upon graduation he entered the shops of 
the Erie Railroad at Susquehanna, Pa., as 



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special apprentice, and since then has been 
connected with the engineering work of the 
road successively as draughtsman, engineer 
of tests, general foreman of Meadville shops, 
assistant inspector of machinery, general in- 
spector of machinery, and chief draughts- 
man. He is a member of the New England 
Railroad Club and of the Theta Nu Epsilon 
fraternity. 

Mr. Hammond is the son of Charles Ed- 
ward and Caroline Augusta Hammond. He 
married Agnes Dunphy, April 10, 1901, and 
they have one child, Dorothy Dunphy Ham- 
mond. 

Handforth, Walter S. (M.E., '97), was en- 
gaged with Burhorn & Granger, consulting 
and contracting engineers, until 1901. He is 
at present a teacher of manual training in 
the public schools of New York city. 



ager of the Vienna house of Gustav Diech- 
mann & Sohn, Berlin and Vienna, a firm 
holding the European agency for a great 
variety of American machinery and tools, 
representing some of the largest American 
manufacturers, including the Brown & 
Sharpe Manufacturing Co., Providence, R. I., 
and the Niles Tool Works Co., Hamilton, O. 
This position he held until 1902. He is at 
present in charge of the eastern office in 
New York of the Dilworth, Porter, & Co., 
Ltd., rolling-mills, Pittsburg, Pa. He is a 
member of the Theta Nu Epsilon fraternity. 

Hann, Robert A. (M.E., '91), was in the 
railway department of the Westinghouse 
Electric & Manufacturing Co., Newark, 
N. J., 1891-94; and has been assistant math- 
ematician for the Equitable Life Assurance 
Society, New York, from 1894 to date. 



Handloser, Robert Carl (M.E., '98), was 
born in Trenton, N. J., October 26, 1875 ; 




R. C. Handloser 

son of Thomas V. and Louisa Handloser. 
He is of German descent. He was draughts- 
man with the Western Electric Co., New 
York, 1898; engineer with the Garvin Ma- 
chine Co., New York, 1898-99; and in the 
same capacity in the factory of the Keuffel 
& Esser Co., manufacturers of drawing and 
surveying instruments, etc., Hoboken, N. J., 
1899; engineering salesman and then man- 



Hansen, Johann M. (M.E., '91), devoted 
himself to the study of water-gas production, 
and was employed by the United Gas Im- 
provement Co., Philadelphia, superintending 
the construction of gas plants in various 
parts of the country. He had super- 
vised the erection of eight of these plants 
at the time of his death, which was caused 
by consumption, July -z^,, 1895. He was a 
mathematical genius and showed exceptional 
proficiency in chemistry. He won the Priest- 
ley Prize while a student at the Institute. 
While a student Mr. Hansen contributed a 
paper on " Marine Governors and the Causes 
of Their Failure," to the Stevens Engineer- 
ing Society; this paper was published in the 
Stevens Indicator, VIII, 47. 

Hardie, Henry M. (M.E., '96), has been 
with the John T. Hardie & Sons Co., New 
Orleans, La., from 1896 to date. 

Hardie, Lewis H. (M.E., '96), has been 
with the New York Metallic Bedstead Co., 
Jersey City, N. J., from 1896 to date. 

Hating, Max (M.E., '83), died in 1887. 
There is no record of his work. 

Harrington, Harry Garfield (M.E., '00), 
was born in Newark, N. J., October 27, 1877; 
son of Joseph and Anna Kathryn Harring- 
ton. On his father's side he is descended 



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from an old English family ; on his mother's 
side, from Revolutionary stock, his great- 
grandfather serving in the War of Inde- 
pendence, and his grandfather in the War 
of 1812. He has been an assistant in the 
engineering department of the New Jersey 
Zinc Co., Nev^ York, from 1900 to date. He 
is a member of the American Institute of 
Mining Engineers; a junior member of the 
American Society of Mechanical Engineers 




li. G. Hakuington 

and of the American Society of Civil Engi- 
neers ; and a member of the Tau Beta Pi 
fraternity. 

Harris, Frederic R. (M.E., '96), was as- 
sociated with Henry D. Steers, contracting 
engineer on harbor improvements, etc., New 
York, being engaged in designing, prepar- 
ing estimates, and supervising work, until 
1901, when he became superintendent for 
the Degnon-McLean Contracting Co., New 
York. In 1903 he was commissioned a civil 
engineer in the U. S. Navy, and is now 
stationed at the Navy Yard, Charleston, S. C. 

Harrison, E. Mortimer (M.E., 95), upon 
graduation went into the manufacture of 
paper at Bozrahville, Conn., and has contin- 
ued in that business ever since. His gradu- 
ation thesis, prepared jointly with Messrs. 
Schmidt and Slipper, on " Experiments with 
a Boiler Arranged to Serve as a Calorimeter 



for Determining the Heating Value of Fuel," 
was published in the Stevens Institute In- 
dicator for July, 1900. 

Harrison, Harold (M.E., '92), has since 
graduation been with McArthur Bros., Chi- 
cago, 111., railroad contractors, and in the 
engineering department of the American 
Telephone & Telegraph Co. He was treas- 
urer of the Carter Package Co., manufac- 
turers of woodenware, 1894-99, and since 
the latter date has been principally con- 
cerned with private interests. 

Hart, Benjamin Franklin, Jr. (M.E., '87). 
was born in Hoboken, N. J., July 14, 1865. 
He received the scholarship to Stevens from 
the Hoboken public schools. He served five 
years in the Ninth Regiment of the National 
Guard of New Jersey, and having been chief 
engineer of the Battalion of the East, Naval 
Reserve of New Jersey, for several years 
previous to the breaking out of the war with 
Spain, he entered the United States Navy as 
a passed assistant engineer with rank of 
lieutenant. He served successfully as first 
assistant engineer of the U. S. S. " Badger," 
chief engineer of the U. S. S. " Saturn," and 
assistant to the chief engineer at the Norfolk 
(Va.) Navy Yard. After eight months' 
service in the navy, the war emergency hav- 
ing passed, he was honorably discharged, 
and secured a position with the Wheeler 
Condenser & Engineering Co., becoming 
the superintendent of the works at Carteret, 
N. J. After about two years at Carteret he 
became the company's engineer and was lo- 
cated at the New York office. While in the 
employ of this company he supervised the 
erection of several large installations, in- 
cluding a cooling-tower plant, complete with 
fan and pumping-engines, at Central Sole- 
dad, near Cienfuegos, Cuba, and one of the 
largest cooling-tower outfits ever construct- 
ed, complete with surface condensers and 
pumps, at St. Louis, Mo. He has con- 
tributed papers to the engineering journals 
on the subject of cooling-towers, and has 
been employed as an expert witness in litiga- 
tion. He left the employ of the Wheeler 
company in the latter part of 1901, and asso- 
ciated himself with Edwin Burhorn, M.E., 
engineer and contractor, with whom he re- 
mained until 1904, when he established the 



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firm of B. Franklin Hart, Jr., & Co., con- 
tracting engineers and manufacturers of all 
manner of plate-steel construction. He is a 
member of the Chi Psi and Sigma Xi fra- 
ternities, and of the Benevolent and Protec- 




. F. Hart, Jr. 



tive Order of Elks; lieutenant in the Naval 
Reserve of New Jersey, and a vestryman of 
St. John's Church, Sewaren, N. J. 

Mr. Hart is the son of Benjamin Franklin 
and Emeline Amelia (McDowell) Hart. 
His paternal .ancestors were English, having 
come to America from England in 1832, and 
his father (Col. B. F. Hart) was an officer 
in the Union Army during the Rebellion. 
Mr. Hart married Florence Virginia Perry, 
April 5, 1899, and they have one child, Ben- 
jamin Franklin Flart, 3d. 

Hartpence, Charles Clifford (M.E., '94), 
was born in Trenton, N. J., October 8, 1871. 
Immediately after graduation he entered the 
service of the East River Gas Co., now the 
New Amsterdam Gas Co., at Long Island 
City, where he remained until 1901, serving 
during the last three years as superintendent 
of the Ravenswood works. In 1901 he 
opened an office in New York and com- 
menced practice as consulting gas engineer, 
a business he still follows. He is a member 
of the American Gas Light Association, and 
of the Beta Theta Pi fraternity. 

Mr. Hartpence is the son of John and 



Keziah Hartpence. He married Cora Lum- 
mus, February 8, 1899. 

Harvey, D. Carroll (M.E., '90), was 
draughtsman with the General Electric Co., 
Schenectady, N. Y., 1890-91, and was en- 
gaged in the same capacity with the Third 
Avenue Cable Road, New York, 1891-94. 
From the latter year to date he has been 
with the Fidelity & Casualty Insurance Co., 
New York. 

Hasbrouck, Stephen Augustus (M.E., '96), 
was born in New York city, August 9, 1874. 
He was with R. H. Wolff & Co., Ltd., man- 
ufacturers of the Wolff-American High Art 
cycles and also wire manufacturers, New 
York, 1896-97, being employed in testing, 
laying out repairs in the factory, designing 
"jigs" and several new machines. In 1898 
he was engaged in developing a gasoline 
motor of his own design, and he later organ- 
ized the Hasbrouck Motor Co., with factory 
at Piermont, N. Y., where he was engaged 
in manufacturing the motor for yachts, 
boats, trucks, and carriages. He was presi- 
dent of this company, 1899-1901. In the 
latter year the company was re-organized 
as the Hasbrouck Motor Works, and in 1902 
the factory was removed to Yonkers, N. Y., 
and the firm confined its operations to ma- 
rine work. In August, 1902, it turned out 
the 35-foot launch " Cricket," equipped 
with one four-cylinder i6-horse-power gas- 
oline motor, which averaged 16 miles per 
hour in trials on the Hudson River, its com- 
plete machinery weighing about 800 pounds. 
The firm has recently established its factory 
at West Mystic, Conn. 

In 1899 Mr. Hasbrouck took out a patent 
on a convertable compound explosive engine 
intended for use in automobiles where great 
power was required at times. For ordinary 
use the motor runs compound and uses but 
little fuel. When extra power is required, 
the low-pressure cylinder is turned into a 
high-pressure cylinder by simply pulling a 
lever, thus doubling the power. The pushing 
back of the lever changes the motor back 
into a compound. In 1900 a patent was 
granted him on a " Regulator for Gasoline 
or Other Like Engines." This is intended 
to control the speed of the engine by a throt- 
tle as in a steam-engine and makes the motor 



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very flexible. He has other patent applica- 
tions filed. 

Mr. Hasbrouck is a member of the Theta 
Nu Epsilon fraternity, of the Stevens, Pas- 
saic River, and Yonkers yacht clubs, of the 
League of American Wheelmen, and of the 
American Motor League. 

The subject of this biography is the son 
of Stephen Hasbrouck, M.D., and Anna M. 
(Stilville) Hasbrouck. The family is 
French Huguenot, descended from Abraham 
Hasbroucq, a native of Calais, France, who 
came to America in 1675 and settled in New 
Paltz, N. Y. Mr. Hasbrouck married Edith 
Auryansen, June 26, 1902. 

Haussling-, Joseph H. (M.E., '02), was 
born in Newark, N. J., March 6, 1877; son 
of Andrew and Emma (Schaefer) Hauss- 
ling. He received his early education in the 
public schools of Newark. He has been em- 



Land & Water Co., Concord, N. H., 1896- 
q8; managing engineer of the Columbia 





J. H. Haussling 

ployed in the testing department of the Gen- 
eral Electric Co. from 1902 to date. 

Hawkins, William Clark (M.E., '89), was 
born in Orange, N. J., September 5, 1866. 
He was assistant engineer on the Third Ave- 
nue Cable Road, New York, 1890-91 ; en- 
gaged in independent engineering work in 
Central America, 1892 ; manager of the Ply- 
mouth, Mass., Electric Light Co., 1893-96; 
superintendent and receiver of the Concord 



W. C. Hawkins 

Water Power Co., Columbia, S. C, 1898; 
engineer in charge of installations, etc., for 
the General Electric Co., until July i, 1901 ; 
general manager and secretary of the Ham- 
ilton Electric Light & Cataract Power Co., 
Hamilton, Canada, 1901-03 ; and has been 
general manager and secretary of the Ham- 
ilton Cataract Power, Light, & Traction 
Co., the successor to the above company, 
from 1903 to date. He is a junior member 
of the American Society of Mechanical En- 
gineers. 

Mr. Hawkins is the son of John Thomas 
and Mary O. Hawkins. He married Mary 
Elizabeth Chambers, December 29, 1898, 
and they have two children, Francis Cham- 
bers and Elizabeth Chambers Hawkins. 

Haworth, J. Frederick (M.E., '90), was with 
the Pittsburg & Birmingham Traction Co., 
Pittsburg, Pa., 1890-92, and has been a mem- 
ber of the firm of Haworth & Dewhurst, 
Pittsburg, from 1892 to date. 

Haynes, William Leseur (M.E., '86), 
was born in Weston, N. J., August 30, 1863. 
He was draughtsman in the Department of 
Public Works, New York city, 1887-88; 
draughtsman with Henry Warden, Philadel- 
phia, Pa., 1888-90; superintendent of the Ti- 



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conderoga Machine Co., Ticonderoga, N. Y., 
1890-92; in the Crane department of Wil- 
liam Sellers & Co., Inc., Philadelphia, 1892- 
1901 ; and has been chief draughtsman in 
the mechanical engineering department of 
the American Bridge Co., Pencoyd, Pa., 
from 1901 to date. Pie is a member of the 
University Club of Philadelphia, of the 
Franklin Institute, and of the Chi Psi fra- 
ternity. 

Mr. Haynes is the son of John S. and 
Sarah (Smith) Haynes. He married Augusta 
R. Wicker, October 24, 1895, and they have 
one child, John Shields Haynes. 

Hays, David (M.E., '02), was born in New 
York city March 3, 1881 ; son of Benjamin 
F. and Anna H. Hays. He was draughts- 
man, 1902-03, and assistant to the superin- 
tendent, 1903-04, in the superintending 
engineer's office of the Old Dominion Steam- 
ship Co., New York, and is now assistant 
superintendent of the United States Gauge 
Co. Pie is a member of the Society of 
Naval Architects and Marine Engineers, and 
of the Tau Beta Pi fraternity. 

Hayward, Henry Selby, Jr. (M.E., '00), 
was born in Elizabeth, N. J., December 25, 




H. S. Hayward, Jr. 

1876; son of Henry S. and Emma Purviance 
(Hastings) Hayward. Pie was Instructor 
at the Stevens Institute during the Supple- 



mentary Term, 1900, and then became me- 
chanical engineer with the Franklin Air 
Compressor Co., Franklin, Pa., which was 
then building its plant. Pie was placed in 
charge of designing and ecjuipping the power 
plant and power transmission, and on com- 
pletion of this work he took charge of the 
tests and repairing of the machinery. In 
1902 he spent two months in travelling, re- 
turning to Franklin to superintend the instal- 
lation of some new machinery at the Franklin 
Steel Casting Co.'s plant ; after the comple- 
tion of which he commenced practice in 
October, 1902, as mechanical engineer, mak- 
ing power plants a specialty and acting as 
representative of several machinery firms. 
In January, 1903, he added to his other work 
the duties of special representative or trav- 
elling engineer for the Franklin Manufac- 
turing Co., and the Franklin Railway Supply 
Co., to look after their goods and interests 
on the Pennsylvania, Baltimore & Ohio, 
Long Island, Central of New Jersey, and the 
New York, Philadelphia, & Norfolk rail- 
roads. Mr. Play ward is a junior member of 
the American Society of Mechanical Engi- 
neers, of the New York Railroad Club, and 
of the Chi Phi fraternity. 

Hazard, Harry Williams (M.E., '78), was 
born near Newcastle, Del., December 12, 
1856. He was appointed chemist at the 
works of the Dunbar Furnace Co., Dunbar, 
Pa., in August, 1878, and about six months 
later became assistant superintendent. Short- 
ly afterward he went to the Olipliant Fur- 
nace as superintendent, returning to Dunbar 
in 1881, where he successively filled the 
positions of superintendent, vice-president, 
and president of the Dunbar Furnace Co., 
which latter position he held until 1895. In 
1890 he was elected president of the Crane 
Iron Co., Catasauqua, Pa., serving in this ca- 
pacity until 1893. During the construction 
of the works of the Radford-Crane Iron Co., 
Radford, Va., in 1890 and 1891, he was 
president of the company and superintended 
the work. His duties consisted of looking 
after all the details of engineering and 
management of these various plants, in- 
cluding the purchasing of ores and other 
supplies, and, at Dunbar, the mining and 
coking of coal in addition to the regular 
furnace work. Mr. Hazard has not been 



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in business since 1895. He is a member of 
the Westmoreland, Art, and Hermitage 
clubs, Richmond, Va., the Bay Head Yacht 
Club, and of the Theta Xi fratei-nity. 

Mr. Hazard is the son of Albert Barnes 
and Mary A. Hazard, and a descendant of 
Thomas Hazard who settled in Rhode Island 
in 1639. He married Catharine Dawson 



inghouse Electric & Manufacturing Co., San 
Francisco, Cal. 




H. W. Hazard 

Willson, April 19, 1882, and they have had 
six children, Jessie Evans, Alpheus Evans 
Willson, Erskine, Harry Williams, Rowland, 
and Norman (deceased) Hazard. 

Healy, Raymond (M.E., '02), was born 
in Brooklyn, N. Y., April 7, 1880; son of 
Frank and Mabel C. (Raymond) Healy, 
and nephew of R. W. Raymond, secretary 
of the American Institute of Mining Engi- 
neers, and of Col. Charles Raymond, presi- 
dent of the Board of Engineers, of the Penn- 
sylvania Railroad tunnel, etc., and of A. A. 
Healy, president of the Brooklyn Institute 
of Arts and Sciences. He is in the employ 
of J. M. Delaney & Co., New York, and 
is a member of the New York Electrical 
Society. 

Heger, William S. (M.E., '79), was em- 
ployed in the Edgemoor Iron Works, Wil- 
mington, Del., 1879-87; was agent for the 
Edison Electric Light Co. at Wilmington, 
and is district office manager of the West- 




Raymond Healy 

Heiskell, John McKinney (M.E., '86), was 
born in Rogersville, Lenn., September 3, 
1853; son of J. B. and Sarah A. (McKinney) 
Heiskell. He was a rodman on preliminary 
surveys for the Memphis bridge, 1886-87; 
draughtsman, with S. Whinery, C.E., Chat- 
tanooga, Tenn., where he plotted the line of 
railway up Lookout Mountain and designed 
new safety devices for the incline previously 
built, 1887; in the office of the Illinois Cen- 
tral Railroad bridge, Cairo, 111., 1888; assist- 
ant engineer with George S. Morison, chief 
engineer, and A. Noble, resident engineer, 
of the Kansas City & Memphis Railway & 
Bridge Co., who had charge of the construc- 
tion of the Memphis bridge, 1888-92, resign- 
ing this position in 1892, when the bridge 
was about completed. 

He has been associated at different times 
with J. H. Weatherford, mechanical en- 
gineer and patent solicitor at Memphis, 
from 1896 to date; was assistant engineer 
on concrete work for bridges and buildings 
of the Illinois Central Railroad, 1898-1900; 
assistant engineer on two bridges at the 
Kansas City stock yards, 1900-01 ; assistant 
engineer on a wharf at Tampico, Mex., 1901- 
02; and assistant engineer on concrete work 
for the Nashville, Chattanooga, & St. Louis 
Railroad, at Memphis, 1902-03. Mr. Heis- 



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419 



kell has taken a special interest in good road 
construction, and read a paper on the sub- 
ject before the Road Congress at Chicago in 
1892. He has also written several articles 
on the subject. He is a member of the Mem- 
phis Engineering Society, before which he 
has read a paper on " Wide Wheels, Eco- 
nomic Traffic, and Best Pavements." 

Hemminger, George Reverdy (M.E., '98), 
was born in Newville, Pa., April 25, 1872; 
son of George and Annie E. (Powell) Hem- 
minger. He was engineer with the Atlanta 
Gas Co., Atlanta, Ga., 1898-99; with the 
Hudson & Essex Gas Co., Newark, N. J., 
1 899-1901 ; and from the latter year until 
recently was assistant superintendent of the 
People's Gas Light Co., Manchester, N. H. 
He is at present with the United Gas Im- 
provement Co., Philadelphia, Pa. He is a 
member of the Delta Tau Delta fraternity, 
and of the Derryfield Club, Manchester, N. H. 

Henderson, Arthur P. (M.E., '83), ob- 
tained a large experience through employ- 
ment with different firms, including the 
Delamater Iron Works Co., New York; the 
Worthington Hydraulic Works Co., Brook- 
lyn, N. Y. ; the CoUender Waterproofing 
Co., East Newark, N. J.; the Passaic Roll- 
ing-Mill, Paterson, N. J. ; the Newport News 
Shipbuilding & Dry Dock Co., Newport 
News, Va. ; the Norfolk Navy Yard; the 
marine department of the Babcock & Wil- 
cox Co., New York; and the Baltimore Elec- 
tric Refining Works, Baltimore, Md. After 
his retirement from the Babcock & Wilcox 
Co. Mr. Henderson was compelled to take 
a year's rest, owing to failing health. Dur- 
ing the period of his occupation in Balti- 
more he was seized with appendicitis whicii 
resulted in his death on February 19, 1900. 

Henderson, John Augustus (M.E., '73), 
was born in Philadelphia December 31, 1853; 
son of Andrew Augustus and Mary Virginia 
(Peaco) Henderson. His father and ma- 
ternal grandfather, John Peaco, were both 
surgeons in the United States Navy. His 
father, in addition to his professional duties, 
including service in several wars, contrib- 
uted substantial work to the earher geologi- 
cal survey of Pennsylvania, and to other 
natural sciences. He was also an inventor, 



taking out several patents, including one on 
a hot-air engine, one on a marine-engine 
governor, and another on an automatic rake 
for reapers. The last named was sold to the 
Walter A. Wood Co. 

Mr. Henderson was the first graduate of 
Stevens Institute, and in point of high char- 
acter and attainments as a student, as well 
as of evidences of the best mental capacity, 
well merited the pre-eminent position in 
which he was in this way placed. 

On his graduation in 1873 he entered the 
employ of the Delaware River Iron Ship- 
building & Engine Works, Chester, Pa., and 
in 1874 took a position with the Baltic Iron 




J. A. Henderson 

Shipbuilding Works at St. Petersburg, Rus- 
sia. The prospects of advancement in the 
employment of this company not proving" en- 
couraging, he returned to America and en- 
tered the Engineer Corps of the United 
States Navy in 1876, in which he continued 
until 1884, when serious impairment of 
health necessitated his being placed on the 
retired list, and compelled him to lead a life 
of actual, rather than merely nominal, retire- 
ment. He has remained in touch with engi- 
neering progress, but with an inclination 
toward general scientific and philosophical 
studies. He has always been especially in- 
terested in evolutionary philosophy, not only 
in its biological aspects, but as extended into 
social, historical, ethical, and other fields. 



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All who have known Mr. Henderson agree 
that under ordinary conditons he would have 
accomplished work in his profession which 
would have constituted a worthy monument 
to his capacity and character. 

'"Henning, Gustavus Charles (M.E., '7^)' 
was born in Brooklyn, N. Y., January i, 1855. 
His primary education was received at the 
Hoboken Academy, 1861-69, and his collegi- 
ate education at the Brooklyn Polytechnic 
Institute, from which he was graduated in 

1875- 

He was in the employ of the New York 
Elevated Railroad, on the construction of 
foundations, shops, and track, 1876-77; 




G. C. Henning 



ferences on Testing Materials held at Vienna 
in 1893, at Zurich in 1895, and at Stockholm 
in 1897, at the latter of which he was chosen 
honorary president during the Conference, 
and appointed chairman of the Section on 
Metals, and at Dresden, in 1898, was elected 
Member of Council until 1900. He was one 
of the most prominent workers in the Inter- 
national Association for Testing Materials, 
which originated in Europe, and he organ- 
ized its American Section at a meeting of 
American scientists at Philadelphia, June 16, 
1898. In 1900 the membership in the Inter- 
national Association included 2,000 names, 
and that of the American Association 135 
names. He was awarded the Edward Long- 
streth Medal of Merit by the Franklin In- 
stitute, for his " Pocket Recorder for the 
Tests of Materials," in 1900. 

Mr. Henning has taken out patents on an 
apparatus for making a grit-covered roofing 
("Granite Roofing") successfully, 1896; a 
swivelled adjustable rope coupling which per- 
mits adjusting driving-ropes to uniform ten- 
sion and length after stretching during ser- 
vice, 1898; an indicating recording apparatus 
used in tension and crushing, as well as alter- 
nating or repetitive tests of materials, 1899 ; 
an apparatus for reversing propellers of 
steamships, with the engine always running 
in one direction, 1901 ; a steam reversing-tur- 
bine which permits driving boats in either 
direction by a single turbine, instead of using 
several turbines designed to run in opposite 
directions, 1902. 

His principal writings include the follow- 
ing: 



draughtsman, calculator, and inspector on 
the Brooklyn Bridge, 1877-82; superintend- 
ent of the East Baltimore Machine & Boiler 
Works, 1882-83 ; constructing engineer for 
the Beaver Wire Mills, Beaver Falls, Pa., 
1883 ; a-rifl lias been inspector of materials and 
bridges, and consulting engineer. New York, 
from 1883 to date. 

Mr. Henning was the representative of 
the Yale & Towne Manufacturing Co., for 
Emery's testing-machines, in London and 
Paris, from 1887-89, and special expert en- 
gineer for the Department of Buildings, New 
York, 1896. 

He represented the American Society of 
Mechanical Engineers at International Con- 



" Notes on Steel," Transactions of the Ameri- 
can Society of Mechanical Engineers, IV, 410. 

"Apparatus Used in Testing Materials," 
Ibid.. VI, 479. 

"Notes on Working Stress in Iron and Steel," 
Ibid.. VIII, 174. 

"Reports of Committee on Standard Tests 
and Methods Of Testing Materials," Ibid., XI, 
527, 587, 604. 

"On Elastic Curve and Treatment of Steel," 
Ibid.. XIII, 571. 

"Autographic Recording Apparatus," Ibid., 
XIII, 640. 

"Pocket Recorder for Tests of Materials," 
Ibid., XVIII, 823. 

"Mirror Apparatus," Ibid., XVIII, 84Q. 

"Investigations of Boiler Explosions," Ibid., 
XX, 649. 



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"Report of Committee on Methods of Testing 
Materials," Ibid., XX, 15. 

"How Materials Are Tested," Gassier' s Maga- 
zine, October, 1894. 

"From an Inspector's Note-book," Ibid., May, 
1895. 

"Testing Machines," Stevens Indicator, VI, 
264. 

"The Pike's Peak Rack Railroad," Ibid., 
VIII, 112. 

"Review of the Present Status of Iron Analy- 
ses," Ibid., XIII, 191. 

Translation and condensation of article on 
"Explosions of Air-Compressors," from GUick- 
auf, American Machinist, January 27, 1898. 

"Ten Different Methods of Distinguishing 
Sheet Iron from Sheet Steel," Ibid., 1898. 

"The International Association for Testing 
Materials," Engineering Magazine, April, 1899. 

"Improvement on Pocket Recorders," Ameri- 
can Machinist, March 14, 1901. 

He also translated and added to the contents 
of " Handbook of Testing Materials for the 
Constructor," by authority of the author, 
Prof. Adolf Martens, Director of the Royal 
Testing Laboratories at Berlin and Char- 
lottenburg, in 1900. 

Mr. Henning is a life member of the 
American Society of Mechanical Engineers, 
of which also he was a member of Council 
and one of the managers, 1896-99. He is a 
member of the American Institute of Mining 
Engineers; the American Society of Naval 
Engineers; the International Association 
for Testing Materials; the Institution of 
Mechanical Engineers of Great Britain; and 
of the Iron and Steel Institute of Great 
Britain. 

Mr. Henning is the son of Henry William 
and Louise (Thomass) Henning. The 
Thomass family, which is traced back to 
1600, came from Saxony; the Henning fam- 
ily, from Billings in the Duchy of Hessia. 
Both parents migrated to the United States 
before reaching their majority in 1848 and 
1849. ^"Ii"- Henning married Fanny Funk, 
September i, 1892. 

Henry, Jacob Schermerhorn (M.E., '99), 
was born in South Orange, N. J., July 31, 
1876; son of Lewis B. and Catherine E. 
(Schermerhorn) Henry. He prepared at 
the Dearborn-Morgan School, Orange, N. J., 
and later entered Stevens School. He was a 
special apprentice with the Pittsburg, Cin- 
cinnati, Chicago, & St. Louis Railroad, Lo- 



gansport, Ind., 1899; was with the Auto- 
mobile Company of America, Marion, N. J., 
1899-1901 ; and has been assistant engineer 
at the Jersey City works of the Safety Car 
Heating & Lighting Co. from 1901 to date. 
He is a member of the Baltusrol Golf, the 
East Orange Golf, and the New York Rail- 




J. S. Henry 

road clubs, of Hope Lodge No. 124, Free 
and Accepted Masons, of East Orange, and 
of the Theta Xi fraternity. 

Hewitt, George (M.E., '96), was born in 
Paterson, N. J., January 30, 1876. He has 
divided his time between technical work and 
music. At present he holds a position as 
organist in a Paterson church. He was 
draughtsman with the Passaic Rolling Mill 
Co., Paterson, N. J., 1896-97; with the firm 
of Post & McCord, 1897; with the Passaic 
Rolling-Mill Co.. 1897-98; with Benjamin 
Eastwood, machinist and founder, Paterson, 
N. J., 1898; with the Passaic Rolling Mill 
Co., 1898-1903; and has been assistant to 
chief draughtsman with the Passaic Steel 
Co., Paterson, N. J., from 1903 to date. His 
graduating thesis on " Experiments to De- 
termine the Economy of Operating a Non- 
Condensing Steam Engine Using a Mixture 
of Steam and Compressed Air," prepared 
jointly with Messrs. Harding Benedict and 
Robert Leber, was published in the Stevens 
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Mr. Hewitt is the son of William and 
Mary (Rainey) Plewitt, his parents being 




George Hewitt 

respectively of English and Irish descent. 
He married Ellen Latham, April 14, 1903. 

Hewitt, William (M.E., '74), was born in 
Trenton, N. J., October 26, 1853. He has 
been with the Trenton Iron Co., Trenton, 
N. J., from 1874 to date: first as paymaster; 
later as assistant to the president and gen- 
eral manager, employed in remodelling and 
installing new machinery at the works, and 
in 1879 was elected vice-president, which 
position he held for 24 years, being employed 
since then in an engineering capacity. When 
the company engaged in the manufacture of 
wire rope in 1885, he devised, patented, and 
installed machinery for the purpose, where- 
by the wires are laid into strands and the 
strands into rope simultaneously, perform- 
ing in one operation what by the common 
method required two. These machines have 
been in continuous and successful operation 
ever since. He has patented numerous other 
inventions. 

In 1890-91 he planned and installed a 
wire-rope tramway for the East Shore Ter- 
minal Co., Charleston, S. C. for conveying 
cotton. Since then he has been concerned 
in the laying out of many other wire-rope 
tramways, haulage plants, and power trans- 
missions, and is the author of various pub- 



lications issued by the Trenton Iron Co. on 
wire-rope tramways, cable-hoist conveyors, 
wire rope and its application to the trans- 
mission of power, and the application of wire 
rope to surface and underground haulage, etc. 
Mr. Hewitt has contributed numerous 
papers to various technical journals, among 
which are the following: 

"Construction and Management of Roll 
Trains for the Manufacture of Heavy Bars, 
Rails and Girders." Iron Age, XVI : October 2 1 , 
1875, p. i; October 28, p. 7; November 4, p. 3; 
November 1 1 , p . i ; November 2 5 , p . 11; Decem- 
ber 2, p. I. 

"Efficiency of Roll Trains." Journal of 
Franklin Institute, CI, 302. 

' ' Construction of Passes in Rolls for Reducing 
Metal." Engineering and Mining Journal, 
August, 1888. 

"Transportation by Wire Rope Tramways." 
Engineering Magazine, VII, 18. 

' ' Cableways for Unloading Vessels." Gassier' s 
Magazine, VIII, 448. 

"Cableways for Handling Heavy Loads." 
Stone, IX, 473. 

"Transmission of Power by Wire Rope." 
Engineering News, XXXV, 300, 

"Across the Chilkoot Pass by Wire Cable." 
Cassier's Magazine, April, 1898, p. 529. 

"Progress in Aerial Transportation." Ibid., 
April, 1900, p. 502. 

" Operation of a Wire Rope in Multiple 
Laps." Stevens Institute Indicator, October, 
1901, p. 356. 

"Aerial Cable Transportation" (read before 
the Engineers' Club of Philadelphia, May 3, 
1902). Transactions of that Society, October, 
igo2. 

"The Continuous Rod Mill of the Trenton 
Iron Co." Transactions of the American Society 
of Mechanical Engineers , II, 70. 

"Novel Hammer-Head and Die." Ibid., VI, 

"Wire-Rope Fastenings." Ibid., IX, 671. 

"A Method of Making Tubes from Solid 
Bars," by Geo. H. Babcock. (Discussion.) 
Ibid., VIII, 564. 

"Notes on Results Obtained from Steel 
Tested Shortly After Rolling," by Edgar C. 
Felton. (Discussion.) Ibid., IX, 38. 

"Steel Car Axles," by John Coffin. (Discus- 
sion.) Ibid., IX, 135. 

Paper on the "Effect of Bending on Wire 
Rope." Read before the Engineering Associa- 
tion of the South. 

Mr. Hewitt was the first president of the 
Alumni Association of Stevens Institute and 



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was again elected in 1894. He was Alumni 
Trustee of the Institute in 1893 and 1894. 
He has been a member of the American So- 
ciety of Mechanical Engineers since its for- 
mation in 1880, and is a member of the 
Engineering Association of the South and 
of the Theta Xi and Tau Beta Pi fraternities. 




William Hewitt 

Mr. Hewitt is the son of Charles and Anna 
(Conrad) Hewitt. His grandfather was 
John Hewitt, an English yeoman of Can- 
nock, Staffordshire, who settled in New York 
city in 1796 as the representative of the firm 
of Boulton & Watt, and who was instrumental 
in the construction of the first steam-engine 
built entirely in this country. His paternal 
grandmother was Ann Gurnee, a descendant 
of Isaac Garnier, a Huguenot refugee, who 
settled first on Long Island and moved in 
1729 to Haverstraw, Rockland County, N. Y. 
His maternal grandfather was Solomon 
White Conrad, of German extraction, a de- 
scendant of Thones Kunders, who came to 
America in 1683 with a party of Mennonites 
under the direction of Francis Daniel Pas- 
torius (six years after William Penn), an 
expedition that inspired Whittier to write 
" The Pennsylvania Pilgrim," and who was 
one of the founders of Germantown, Pennsyl- 
vania. His maternal grandmother was Eliza- 
beth Alibott, a descendant of John Abbott, 
gentleman, of Nottinghamshire, England, 
and Anne Mauleverer, who emigrated to 



America in 1684 and settled in Nottingham 
(now Hamilton) Township, Burlington 
(now Mercer) County, near Trenton, N. J. 
The Mauleverers are of royal lineage, their 
pedigree having been traced to William the 
Conqueror. For many generations they 
were the owners of the manor of Ingleby 
Arncliffe in the North Riding of Yorkshire, 
England, and of Arncliffe Hall, the present 
residence of Sir J. Lowthian Bell. The 
Conrads and Abbotts were Quakers. 

Mr. Hewitt married Josephine Helen 
Walker (a descendant of the Rev. George 
Walker, the defender of Londonderry, known 
as "The Fighting Parson"), December 11, 
1878. They have three children living, 
Charles Conrad (graduate of Princeton Uni- 
versity and winner of the Baird prize of $100 
for the best oration, 1903), Waldburg, and 
Helen Bradley Hewitt. 

Hickok, Henry Addison (M.E., '83), was 
born in Sandy Hill, Washington County, 
N. Y., November i, i860. He was draughts- 
man at the Wallis Iron Works, Jersey City, 
N. J., 1883-86; draughtsman at the Morse 
Bridge Works, Youngstown, O., 1886-87; 
assistant engineer at the Riverside Bridge 
Works, Paterson, N. J., 1887-88; and has 
been an engineer and contractor at Newark, 
N. J., from 1888 to date. Among the build- 
ings which he has designed, and for which 
he has furnished the steel structural work, 
are the following: The Peddie Memorial 
Church, Newark, N. J., a building 100 feet 
square, with a domed roof and groined ceil- 
ing; the St. John's School and Theatre, 
Orange, N. J., in which the balcony in the 
auditorium is suspended from the roof truss- 
es, thus leaving the main floor entirely free 
from columns ; the Empire Theatre, Newark, 
N. J. ; St. Patrick's Lyceum, Jersey City ; and 
the new $1,000,000 Cathedral of the Sacred 
Heart in Newark, N. J. He was also con- 
sulting engineer in charge of the steel struc- 
tural work of the new City Hall at Newark, 
costing $1,250,000. He has patented an ad- 
justable centro-linead, a useful instrument for 
making perspective drawings. He is a mem- 
ber of the American Society of Civil En- 
gineers, of Hope Lodge, Free and Accepted 
Masons, East Orange, and of the New Eng- 
land Society, Orange, N. J. 

Mr. Hickok is the son of Henry Franklin 



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and Elizabeth Tefft (Cleaver) Hickok. He 
married Mary Sybelle Ward, August 5, 1885, 




H. A. Hickok 

and they have three children, Helen Ward, 
]\Iary Hilda, and Henrv Addison, Jr., 
Hickok. 

Hidden, Charles P. (M.E., '97), has been 
employed in the testing department of the 
Sprague Electric Elevator Co., Watsessing, 
N. J., and is at present located in New York. 
His graduating thesis, written in conjunc- 
tion with Mr. Olaf M. Kelly, was published 
in the Sfcz'cns Indicator, January, 1898. 

Hill, Nicholas S., Jr. (M.E., 92), was. after 
graduation, in the employ of the Southside 
Elevated Railway Co., of Chicago, and of 
the Sewerage Commission of the city of Bal- 
timore, Md. ; was engineer to the Electrical 
Subway Commission, Baltimore. 1894-95, 
having under his supervision the construction 
and equipment of a system of subways for 
the police and fire-alarm telegraph ; engineer 
of an Electrical Commission appointed to 
prepare and report plans and estimates of 
cost for a general subway system to accom- 
modate all the overhead wires in Baltimore. 
This Commission submitted the plans and 
estimates prepared by Mr. Hill to the City 
Council. 1895-97. He was chief engineer 
to the Water Board of Baltimore, 1897-98, 
in which position he was engaged upon the 



extension of the water supply into a newly 
annexed district and in reinforcing the sys- 
tem in other parts of the city. This system 
of extensions also included additional pump- 
ing-engines, erection of standpipes, etc., and 
entailed an expenditure of $2,000,000. He 
also reorganized the Water Department and 
put it on a satisfactory basis. 

Mr. Hill engaged in a general consult- 
ing engineering business with Mr. B. C. 
Howard, under the firm name of Hill & 
Howard, in Baltimore, 1898-99. In 1899 
Mr. Alfred M. Quick succeeded Mr. Howard 
in this firm, which continued its professional 
work at Baltimore as before, 1899-1900. Mr. 
Hill was also chief engineer and general 
manager of the Charleston, S. C, Consoli- 
dated Gas & Electric Co., 1899-1900; a mem- 
ber of the firm of Hill. Quick & Allen, con- 
sulting engineers. New York, 1900-02 ; and 
has been practising as consulting engineer in 
New York down to date. He was chief 
engineer in the Department of Water Supply, 
Gas, and Electricity of the City of New York, 
1903-04. Mr. Hill has contributed to techni- 
cal journals articles relating to the work with 
which he has been from time to time con- 
nected, and is an associate member of the 
.\merican Institute of Electrical Engineers. 

Hill, V/allace M. (M.E., '89), was born 
in Elizabeth, N. J.. June 28, 1868; son of 
Y^alter B. and Ellen "Cardwell (Stock) Hill. 
He is of New England Puritan stock, the first 
of the name being John Hill, a member of 
the Ancient and Honorable Artillery Com- 
pany of Massachusetts Bay Colony in 1630. 
He is also a direct descendant of Edward 
Rawsen, who was first Secretary of the 
Massachusetts Bay Colony. 

He was draughtsman with the Allentown 
Rolling-Mills, Allentown, Pa., 1889; assistant 
of Mr. Edward Weston toward the end of 
the case of Brush I'S. Percival, concerning 
the storage-battery patent ; and was engaged 
in laboratory work and general testing for 
the Weston Electrical Instrument Co., New- 
ark. N. J., 1890-93. For about one year of 
this period he conducted some mechanical 
and electrical tests for himself. At the time 
of his resignation from the Weston Co. he 
had charge of the ammeters, voltmeters, and 
millivoltmeters in the laboratory. He next 
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Lynn, for a few months, and then returned 
to New York, where he is now practising as 
expert on electrical instruments. 

He is the author of three books, with their 
question-papers and keys, which were writ- 
ten for the Scranton Correspondence School 
of Science ; one on " Telegraphing and the 
Telephone," and two on " Electrical Power 
Transmission." He has also contributed ar- 
ticles to technical journals as follows : " The 
Standardizing of Electrical Instruments," 
and " Temperature Errors in Electrical In- 
struments," to the Electrical World; " Tests 
of the Hyatt Roller Bearing," to the Railroad 
Gasettc; and " Otto Wolf's Standard Re- 
sistances in Electrical Measurement," to 
the Stevens Institute Indicator, October, 
1900. 

Hiller, Nicolai Henry (M.E., '89), was 
born in Nikolaievsk, Amur River, Siberia, 




N. H. Hiller 

July 15, 1868. He was with the Hendrick 
Manufacturing Co., Carbondale, Pa., 1889- 
92 ; manager of the Ice & Cold Storage Co., 
of Los Angeles, Cal., 1892-93; mechanical 
engineer with the Hendrick Manufacturing 
Co., Ltd., Carbondale, 1894-96; assistant 
superintendent of the same company, 1896- 
98 ; and has been vice-president and treasurer 
of the Carbondale Machine Co., from 1899 
to date. He has taken out patents on a liquid 
level gauge, 1898; an absorption refrigerating 



apparatus (with H. Torrance, Jr., '90), 1900; 
and on a distilling apparatus, 1901. He is a 
member of the American Society of Mechan- 
ical Engineers ; of the Engineers' Club, New 
York city; of the Scranton Engineers' Club, 
and of the Delta Tau Delta fraternity. 

Mr. Hiller married Olivia Howes, Novem- 
ber 21, 1893; they have two children, Paul 
Winans and Nicolai Henry, Jr., Hiller. 

Hinkle, Eugene E. (M.E., '90), was 
draughtsman, assistant engineer, and then 
chief engineer of construction of the Union 
Iron Works, New York, contractors and en- 
gineers for structural iron work, 1890-93. 
He engaged in steam engineering in the 
South, contracting for cotton-gin plants, in- 
cluding cotton-gins, presses, feeders, conden- 
sers, boilers and engines, etc., 1893-95; was 
engineer for the Empire Iron Works, New 
York, 1895; and in the latter year he organ- 
ized, with his brother, the Hinkle Iron Co., 
manufacturers of ornamental and structural 
ironwork, New York, of which he has been 
the engineer and senior member from 1895 
to date. 

Hodges, C. B. (M.E., '91), was in the em- 
ploy of the Rapid Transit Commission of the 
city of Boston, surveying and draughting 
work, 1891 ; draughtsman with E. D. Leavitt, 
Jr., E.D., Cambridgeport, Mass., 1891-92; 
with the Cleveland, Cincinnati, Chicago & 
St. Louis Railroad, as assistant engineer in 
the chief engineer's department, in the motive 
power department, and as special apprentice 
in the shops, 1892-95 ; machinist in the Chi- 
cago shops of the New York, Chicago, & 
St. Louis Railroad, 1895 ; and has since been 
with the H. K. Porter Co., builders of light 
locomotives, Pittsburg, Pa., at first as en- 
gineer of tests and now as assistant superin- 
tendent. He is a junior member of the 
American Society of Mechanical Engineers. 

Hodgman, George Perry (M.E., '95) , was 
born in Wilmington, Del., April 8, 1868; son 
of Stilman Augustus and Helen Eliza Hodg- 
man. His paternal ancestors were among 
the early settlers of New England, and have 
been distinguished in public affairs and in the 
learned professions. His great-grandfather 
was an officer in the War of 1812. On the 
maternal side his ancestors were among the 



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first Dutch settlers of New York and served 
in the War of 1812. After graduating from 
the pubHc school system of Wilmington with 
honors, he entered the shops of the Phila- 
delphia, Wilmington, & Baltimore Railroad 
to learn the trade of machinist. Deciding 
upon a technical education, he entered Lehigh 
University in 1889, and Stevens Institute one 
year later. He was president of the Junior 
class in 1892-93, also of the Glee Club of the 
same year. Upon graduation he entered the 
employ of the Baldwin Locomotive Works 
Co., where he soon worked his way up to the 
position of track foreman. During the fall 
of 1898 he was sent to the United States of 
Colombia, for the purpose of erecting several 
engines on the Ferro-Carril del Cauca, with 
headquarters at Buenaventura. Stopping at 
Panama, he contracted the fatal fever of 



Margie (McRobbie) Hoffman. He married 
Julia Francese Fox, June 24, 1903. 




G. P. HODGMAN 

that country, from which he died at Ven- 
ticas, Colombia, November 28, 1898. He 
was a member of the Theta Nu Epsilon 
fraternity. 

Hoffman, Charles Swan (M.E., '99), was 
born in Brooklyn, N. Y., November 9, 1875. 
He has been with Baker, Smith, & Co., 
heating and ventilating engineers and con- 
tractors. New York, from 1899 to date. He 
is a member of the University Club of Brook- 
lyn and of the Chi Phi fraternity. 

Mr. Hoffman is the son of Luther and 




C. S. Hoffman 

Hoffman, Howard (M.E., '02), was born 
in Brooklyn, N. Y., September 5, 1880; son 
of Luther and Margie (McRobbie) Hoffman. 
He is a cadet engineer with the Essex & 
Hudson Gas Co., Newark, N. J., and is a 




Howard Hoffman 

member of the Chi Phi, and Gamma Delta 
Psi fraternities, and of the Gamma Delta Psi 
Club. 



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Hoffman, Samuel Verplanck (M.E., '88), 
was born in Brooklyn, N. Y., May 12, 1866. 
He was a special student in the College of 
Physicians and Surgeons, New York, and a 
graduate student at Johns Hopkins Univer- 
sity, where he remained until 1895. While 
at Baltimore he was " Student Assistant " 
in Astronomy for one year, " Fellow " in As- 
tronomy for one year, and " Fellow by Cour- 
tesy " for three years in the same subject. 
His home is in Morristown, N. J. 

Mr. Hoffman is a Fellow of the Royal 
Astronomical Society; president of the New 
York Historical Society ; trustee of the Gen- 



a member of the Metropolitan Club, of 
Washington, D. C. 

Mr. Hoffman is the son of Eugene Augus- 
tus Hoffman, D.D., LL.D., D.C.L., and Mary 
Crooke (Elmendorf) Hoffman. He is de- 
scended from Martinus Hoffman, who came 
to America from Holland in 1640. He mar- 
ried Louisa N. Smith, April 17, 1895, and 
they have three children, Louisa Verplanck, 
Margaret Elmendorf, and Eugene Augustus, 
Jr., Hoffman. 

Holberton, George C. (M.E., '91), was 
with the Edison Machine Works, Schenec- 




LlNE OF THE SlAM ELECTRICITY Co., LtD., AT BANGKOK, SlAM 

G. C. Holberton 



eral Theological Seminary, New York ; sec- 
retary-general of the Society of Colonial 
Wars ; and a member of the Astronomical 
Society of the Pacific ; of the Astronomische 
Gesellschaft; and of the Grolier, Century, 
University, Seventh (New York) Regiment, 
and Morristown (N. J.) clubs; and of the 
Delta Phi fraternity. He was formerly also 



tady, N. Y., 1891-95; engineer with the Oak- 
land Gas, Light, & Heat Co., Oakland. Cal., 
1895-97; chief engineer and electrician to 
the Bangkok Electric Light Co. and the Siam 
Electricity Co., Ltd., Bangkok, Siam, 1897- 
1901 ; general superintendent of the elec- 
trical department of the Oakland Gas, Light, 
& Heat Co., Oakland, Cal., 1901 to date. Mr. 



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Holberton read a paper on " Distribution of 
Alternating Currents " before the Pacific 
Coast Gas Association in June, 1901. He is 
an associate member of the American Insti- 
tute of Electrical Engineers. 

Holcombe, Emley Mentz (M.E., '01), was 
born in Lambertville, N. J., May 29, 1879. 




E. M. Holcombe 



He was assistant engineer, for the erection 
of a modern blast-furnace, with the Warwick 
Iron & Steel Co., Pottstown, Pa., 1901 ; as- 
sistant bridge engineer and draughtsman for 
the Cuba Company, in their New York office, 
1901-02 : and has been draughtsman for the 
Carbondale Machine Co., Carbondale, Pa., in 
connection with which work he was also en- 
gineer for the construction of a reservoir dam 
for the Belmont Water Co., from 1902 to 
date. 

His graduating thesis, prepared jointly 
with his classmates, Messrs. W. M. Chatard 
and H. J. Botchford, on " Comparison of 
Cost of Operating an Iron SmeUing-Plant 
by Engines Using Wa.ste Blast Furnace Gas, 
and by Gas-Fired Boilers and Steam-En- 
gines," was published in the Stci'cns Indica- 
tor for January, 1902. He is a member of 
the Delta Tau Delta fraternity. 

Mr. Holcombe is the son of Alexander H. 
and Malvina Kay (Mentz) Holcombe. His 
first American ancestor, John Holcombe, 
came from England to Philadelphia, Pa., soon 



after the arrival of William Penn. Mr. Hol- 
combe's father was commissioned to raise a 
company of volunteers during the Civil War, 
and in 1876 he was appointed aide-de-camp 
(with the rank of colonel) to Governor 
Bedle, of New Jersey. He married Ruth 
Newman Coals, November 23, 1904. 

Hollingsworth, Samuel (M.E., '96), was 
draughtsman with the Campbell Printing 
Press & Manufacturing Co., Plainfield, N. J., 
and draughtsman with the Potter Printing 
Press Co., Plainfield. He has lately opened 
an engineering office at Plainfield, making a 
specialty of printing-machine design and con- 
struction. He is a member of the Tau Beta 
Pi and Theta Nu Epsilon fraternities. 

Hopkins, Guy (M.E., 95), was born in 
New Orleans, La., January 15, 1874. He 
has been with the Southern Pacific Railroad, 
New Orleans, from 1895 to date, first as 
draughtsman, then as chief draughtsman. In 
1902 he was promoted to the position of as- 
sistant master mechanic, and in 1904 was 
again advanced to operating engineer. He 
is also president of the Biloxi Supply Co., 
and a member of the New Orleans Chess, 
Checkers, and Whist Club. 

Mr. Hopkins is the son of Aristide and 




Guy Hopkins 



Mamie (McNeil) Hopkins. His ancestors 
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four generations. He married Marietta 
Wiltz, January 30, 1902, and they have one 
child, Corinne M. Hopkins. 

Hotopp, Carl H. (M.E., '92), was born at 
" Pen Park," Albemarle County, Va., August 




C. H. Hotopp 

28, 1869. He was employed by the Illinois 
Steel Co., South Chicago, for two years, after 
which he became manager for the Tanite 
Co., Stroudsburg, Pa., where he remained 
for four years, during which time he de- 
signed and remodelled all their machinery 
for crushing and grading emery. He then 
took the positions of manager and treasurer 
of the Hotopp Emery Co., Peekskill, N. Y. 
For several years previous to his accidental 
death. May 25, 1901, Mr. Hotopp had been 
compelled to give up active engineering work 
to act as executor of his father's estate. He 
found time, however, to develop his interest 
in " Coronet " steel which had proved itself 
to be exceptionally hard and free from blow- 
holes. He had made numerous tests, along 
with the inventor of the process, at various 
steel mills, and was convinced of its supe- 
riority. He was a member of the American 
Chemical Society. 

Mr. Hotopp was the son of William H. and 
Emma (Von Kamlah) Hotopp. He married 
Marie Frincke, Sejjtember 19, 1894, and they 
had two children, Adalbert Frincke and 
Emmanuel Reginald Hotopp. 



Howell, John White, '81 (E.E., 1900), 
was born in New Brunswick, N. J., Decem- 
ber 22, 1857. He joined the Class of 1881 
in its Sophomore year and continued with it 
until graduation, pursuing a partial course 
including mathematics, physics, mechanical 
drawing, engineering, and shop-work. 

He was placed in charge of the photometer 
room, and of experimental lamp-testing, by 
the Edison Lamp Co., Menlo Park, N. J. 
After obtaining in this manner a good 
knowledge of the performance of incandes- 
cent lamps, he worked to improve the prac- 
tical conditions under which they were 
operated. While thus engaged he took out 
twelve patents on systems of electrical dis- 
tribution and electrical-pressure indicators, 
which have been very extensively used. He- 
gave testimony, as lamp expert of the Edi- 
son General Electric Co., in all their suits 
involving the Edison incandescent lamp 
patents, and in this connection made very 
successful lamps following exactly the speci- 
fications of the Edison filament patent, after 
other experts in this country and in England 
had failed in their attempts, and the experts 
for the defence had claimed that such lamps 
could not possibly be made. 

In 1892 the " Novak " lamp was placed 
upon the market, which contained in the bulb 
a very small amount of bromine vapor. In 
the litigation over this lamp it became nec- 
essary to know the exact amount of bromine 
vapor which the lamp contained, a very diffi- 
cult problem, but one which Mr. Howell 
solved by observing the change in efficiency 
caused by taking out the bromine vapor and 
making a good vacuum in the lamp. He also 
observed in other lamps the change produced 
by letting definite amounts of bromine vapor 
into well-exhausted lamps. From these re- 
sults he plotted a curve showing the effect 
of the bromine vapor in changing the effi- 
ciency of the lamp, and from this curve found 
the amount of bromine in the Novak lamps 
by noting the above change in their efficiency 
on re-exhaustion. The figure given in his 
testimony based on these experiments was 
exactly the same as that given by the defend- 
ants as the amount of vapor which they put 
into the lamps. 

In 1894 Mr. Howell was appointed engineer 
of the lamp works of the General Electric 
Co. after the consolidation of the Thomson- 



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Houston and the Edison General Electric 
companies' lamp factories. While thus en- 
gaged he made several important improve- 
ments in methods of lamp manufacture and 
developed the present type of the General 
Electric Company's lamp, which is very suc- 
cessful. He went abroad in 1895 to investi- 




J. W. Howell 

gate lamp-manufacture in Europe, and made 
a report on a new Italian method of lamp- 
exhaustion which has since been adopted 
with great success by the General Electric 
Co. Under his management improvements 
have been made in lamp-manufacture which 
in the last year have improved the quality 
of the General Electric Company's incandes- 
cent lamp over 50 per cent. 

Between 1886 and 1901 he took out 18 
patents in the electrical field. In the lat- 
ter year 12 others were either pending or 
in process of preparation, some of which 
have since been issued, and several more 
applications are now on file or are being 
prepared. 

Mr. Howell is author of the following 
papers : 

' ' Function of the Neutral Wire in the Edison 
Three-Wire System," written for the Associa- 
tion of the Edison Illuminating Companies, 
1887. 

"Development of the Incandescent Electric 
Lamp," Engineering Magazine, April, 1894. 

"Radiating Power of Incandescent-Lamp 



Filaments," Electrical Engineer, January 6, 
1897. 

"Conductivity of Lamp Filaments and of the 
Space Surrounding Them," written for the 
meeting of the American Institute of Electrical 
Engineers, February 17, 1897. 

He has also presented several additional 
papers to the last-named society, and to the 
Association of the Edison Illuminating- 
Companies. He is a member of the Ameri- 
can Institute of Electrical Engineers; the 
American Association for the Advancement 
of Science ; the Essex and Essex County 
Country clubs; and of the Theta Xi frater- 
nity. 

Mr. Howell is the son of Martin A. and 
Abby Stout Howell. He married Frederica 
Burckle Gilchrist, April 23, 1895, and they 
have four children, Frederica Burckle, John 
White, Augusta Appleton, and Cornelia 
Margaret Howell. 

Hoxie, William Dixie (M.E., '89), was 
born in New York city July i, 1866. He is 
vice-president of the Babcock & Wilcox Co., 
New York, and the patentee of several de- 
signs of marine water-tube boilers, some of 
which are used to the extent of over 405,000 
horse-power in the American navy and 225,- 
000 horse-power in the Ainerican merchant 
marine. He has contributed several articles 
on marine boilers to technical journals. He 
is a member of the Society of Naval Archi- 
tects and Marine Engineers; the American 
Society of Naval Engineers; the American 
Society of Mechanical Engineers; the En- 
gineers' and Lawyers' clubs; the Kitchi 
Gammi, Atlantic, and New York yacht 
clubs ; and of the Delta Tau Delta fraternity. 

Mr. Hoxie is the son of John and Isabelle 
Hoxie. The first Hoxie came to America 
in 1640 and settled in Sandwich, Mass. Mr. 
Hoxie married Vinnie Louise Brown, Oc- 
tober 19, 1892, and they have one child, 
Isabelle Hoxie. 

Hughes, Robert S. G. (M.E., '98), was. in 
the testing department of the Rogers Loco- 
motive Works, Paterson, N. J., 1898-1900; 
with Samuel Smith & Son, boiler manufac- 
turers, Paterson, 1900-01 ; with John W. Fer- 
guson, builder and general contractor, New 
York and Paterson, 1901-02 ; and has been 
located at Paterson, N. J., from 1902 to date. 



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Hulse, George Egbert (M.E., 
born in Bellport, L. I., January 21 



'02), was 
1877; son 




G. E. Hulse 

of Egbert Hampton and Mary Roe (Homan) 
Hulse. He is a graduate of the Pratt Insti- 
tute High School, Brooklyn. He has been 
assistant engineer in the engineering depart- 
ment of the Safety Car Heating & Lighting 
Co., New York, since April 17, 1902. He is 
a member of the Tau Beta Pi fraternity. 

Humphreys, Alexander C. (M.E., '81), 
President of Stevens Institute of Technology. 
For biography, see page 195. 

Humphreys, Harold (M.E., '99), was born 
at Bergen Point, N. J., November 30, 1877; 
the son of Alexander C. Humphreys, of the 
Class of 1881, and the first son of an alum- 
nus of Stevens to graduate from the Insti- 
tute. He entered his father's office upon 
graduation, and took up a course of work to 
fit him to become his father's personal assist- 
ant in carrying on the business of the well- 
known firm of Humphreys & Glasgow, con- 
sulting engineers, of New York and London. 
He was an associate member of the American 
Gas Light Association and a member of the 
Nassau Country Club. 

He married Lydia B. Bell, daughter of 
Mr. J. Lowrie Bell, general traffic manager 
of the New Jersey Central Railroad, Decem- 
ber 15, 1900, and, very shortly after, the 



young couple, accompanied by Mr. Humph- 
reys' father, mother, and younger brother, 
left on an extensive pleasure tour. While 
ascending the Nile to Assouan, Egypt, Feb- 
ruary 12, 1901, young Crombie Humphreys, 
who was seven years of age, fell overboard, 
and Harold, in endeavoring to save the life 
of his little brother, lost his own. Both were 
drowned. The bodies were recovered and 
brought to New York, where funeral ser- 
vices were held March 23, 1901. 

At the annual meeting of the American 
Gas Light Association in October, 1901, Mr. 
Edward C. Pratt, the retiring president, in 




Harold Humphreys 

his valedictory address, paid the following 
tribute to the memory of Harold Humph- 
reys : 

"In this list of the dead of the year, members 
of the Association will observe the names of 
many veterans in the great enterprise which our 
Association represents. They have gone to 
their reward full of years, full of honors, leaving 
untarnished names behind. However, there is 
one name, that of Humphreys, whose mere 
mention will bring tears to the eyes of those 
present who will recall his tragic death in the 
Nile while struggling to save his younger brother. 
He died in an attempt to save a life. He paid 
his last full measure of devotion; he laid down 
his life for his brother. A mere youth, athletic 
and strong, educated and brilliant, on his bridal 
tour, his death could not have been more tragic. 
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it proper to make special mention of this bril- 
liant youth taken from us in the morning of life. 
While we mourn all our dead of the year, we 
especially mourn Humphreys, the promising son 
of our respected and valued member." 

Hunt, Charles Haviland (M.E., '96), was 
born in Brooklyn, N. Y., August 13, 1872. 




C. H. Hunt 



member of the American Society of Mechan- 
ical Engineers, and a member of the Delta 
Tau Delta fraternity. 

Hunter, Wilfred Kenneth (M.E., '93), was 
born in Newark, N. J., May 13, 1870. His 
early education was received in the gram- 
mar school of East Orange, N. J. He was 
obliged to leave the high school, before finish- 
ing his course, on account of illness, and was 
with the city engineer of East Orange for 
about a year and a half before entering 
Stevens Preparatory School in 1888. He 
was employed in the draughting-room of the 
Crocker-Wheeler Co., Ampere, N. J., and 
also in that of the Westinghouse Co., New- 
ark, N. J. He has been connected with the 
Stanley Electric Manufacturing Co., Pitts- 
field, Mass., as assistant superintendent of 
the motor department, 1895-1901 ; assistant 
to general superintendent, 1901-02; and su- 
perintendent of production department, 1902 ; 
in which year he organized and took charge 
of the estimating department. He has helped 
to start a social and educational club for 
the employees of the Stanley Electric Manu- 
facturing Co. 

He is a member of Mystic Lodge of 
Masons, Pittsfield, Mass.; of the New York 



He was draughtsman with the Rand Drill 
Co., North Tarrytown, N. Y., 1896; then 
located in business in New York ; and has 
been a member of the firm of David Hunt 
& Co., New York, from 1900 to date, oper- 
ating canning factories at Oswego and at 
Cherry Creek, N. Y., called respectively the 
Oswego Preserving Co. and the Cherry 
Creek Canning Co. Pie is a member of the 
Alpha Tau Omega and Theta Nu Epsilon 
fraternities. 

Mr. Hunt is the son of David and Anna 
Pauline Hunt. He married Katharyne Bar- 
low Stevens, April 18, 1900. 

Hunter, James Francis (M.E., '97), was 
born in Baltimore, Md., October 10, 1876; 
son of James W. and Mary (Devereux) 
Hunter. He has been engaged at the works 
of the Maryland Steel Co., Sparrow Point, 
Md., from 1897 to date, being apprentice for 
two years and master mechanic for four. 
He now holds the position of assistant super- 
intendent of coke ovens. He is a junior 




\V. K. Hunter 



Electrical Society ; and of the East Orange 
Republican Club, East Orange, N. J. 

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(Kean) Hunter, both of Scotch descent. He 
married Rose Mary Harding, October 25, 
1898. 

Hupfel, Adolph G. (M.E., 93), was born 
in New York city December 14, 1870. He 
has been with the J. Chr. G. Hupfel Brewing 
Co. from 1893 to date, being now its secre- 
tary. He patented the Trim sail-fastener, 
1899. He is a memljer of the New York 
Athletic Club and of the Chi Psi fraternity. 

Mr. Hupfel is the son of John Chr. G. and 
Anna Hupfel. He married Matilde Doelger, 




A. G. HuPFEi. 

May 3, 1898, and they have two children, 
Adolph P. G. and John G. Hupfel. 

Huppertz, Edward Alfred Vail (M.E., '93), 
was born in Frankfort, Germany. He was 
in the general offices of the American 
Telephone & Telegraph Co., New York, 
and Chicago, 111., from 1893 until 1902, 
and is now in the general office of the 
New England Telephone & Telegraph Co., 
P>oston, Mass. He is a member of the Theta 
Xi fraternity. 

Mr. Huppertz is the son of William and 
Mary Louise (Vail) Huppertz. He married 
Mary Stuart Kroehl, April 4, 1899, and they 
have one child, Louise Vail Huppertz. 

Hussa, Theodore F. (M.E., '96), has been 
with the T. A. Gillespie Co., engineers and 



contractors, Little Falls, N. J., 1896-1900; 
and consulting and contracting engineer, New 
York city, from 1900 to date. 

Hussey, Paul Gordon (M.E., '85), was 
born in Boston, Mass., May 19, 1864; son of 




P. G. Hussey 

John W. and Clara A. Hussey. He was 
with the Midland Electric Co., Omaha, Neb., 
imtil 1887, and during the five years preced- 
ing his death, which occurred in 1892, he 
was connected with the Remington Standard 
Typewriter Co.. New York. 

Hussey, William Edgerly (M.E., '98), was 
born in New York city October 15, 1873. 
Before graduation he served as engineer in 
the United States Navy during the Span- 
ish-American War. He has since been 
draughtsman with the Metropolitan Electric 
Construction Co., New York ; chief draughts- 
man with the Clonbrock Steam Boiler Co., 
Brooklyn, N. Y. ; in the laboratory and 
erection department of the firm of Uehling, 
Steinbart, & Co. ; engineer in charge of 
construction and operation for the Phoenix 
Dredging Co., Toledo, O., 1899-1900; assist- 
ant to the manager of the New York office 
of McLitosh, Seymour, & Co., engine-build- 
ers, Auburn, N. Y., 1900-04; and is at present 
manager of the New York office of the Provi- 
dence Engineering Works. He is a member 
of the Tau Beta Pi fraternity. 



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Mr. Hussey is the son of Levi and Mary 
A. Hussey. He married Florence A. Becker, 
November 14, 1901. 

Hutchings, Clifford F. (M.E., '02), has 
been with the New York & New Jersey 
Telephone Co., Brooklyn, N. Y., and is now 
with the General Electric Co., Lynn, Mass. 

Hutchins, Gordon Lines (M.E., 97), was 
born in Brooklyn, N. Y., July 7, 1875; son 
of Alexander and' Mary Frances Hutchins. 
He took a post-graduate course in the Colum- 
bia School of Mines, graduating in 1898 with 
the degree of Mining Engineer. He was 
foreman of the cyanide mill of the De Lamar 
Nevada Gold Manufacturing Co., 1898-99; 
manager of the Bingham Electric Co., Bing- 
ham Canyon, Utah, 1899-1901 ; superintend- 
ent of the Blackbird Copper & Gold Mining 
Co., Ltd., Frisco, Beaver County, and of the 
Bluebird Copper Mining Co., Milford, Beaver 
County, Utah, 1901-03; superintendent of the 
Southwestern Electric Power Co., Salt Lake 
City, 1903-04; and is now Western engineer 
for the American Stoker Co., at Salt Lake 
City. He is a member of the University Club 
of Salt Lake City ; the Independent Order of 
Foresters; the Knights of Pythias; the 
Knights of the Maccabees ; the Benevolent 
Protective Order of Elks ; and of the Beta 
Theta Pi fraternity. 

Hutchinson, Edwin (M.E., '95), was first 
employed with the Western Union Tele- 
graph Co., and then in the Townsend Fur- 
nace and Machine Shops at Albany, N. Y. 
After an illness of ten months he died at 
his home in Brooklyn, N. Y., July 7, 1897. 
When in the employ of the Western Union 
Telegraph Co. he drew a creditable set of 
plans for a dredging-machine for one of the 
stockholders of that company. 

Hyatt, Henry R. (M.E., '00), was with 
the Oxnard Construction Co., New York, 
1900; with the firm of Adam Weber's Sons, 
New York, from 1900 until 1903; and is 
now employed with the Alphons Custodis 
Chimney Construction Co., New York. 

Idell, Frank E. (M.E., 'yy), began his pro- 
fessional career as consulting engineer soon 
after graduation, and, as such, planned and 



superintended the erection of a number of 
plants, among which are the following: The 
steam plant of the Cooperstown Electric Light 




F. E. Idell 

& Power Co., Cooperstown, N. Y. ; the Sea- 
shore Electric Railway Co., Asbury Park, 
N. J. (including tests) ; a refrigerating plant 
for F. A. Ferris & Co., New York; and fac- 
tory, building, and power equipment for Wil- 
liam Campbell & Co., Hackensack, N. J. He 
also tested the steam plants of the electric 
light companies at Union Hill, N. J., and at 
Jamestown, N. Y., to determine if engines 
came up to guarantee, and made an exami- 
nation of, and a report on, the condition of 
the electric railway at Richmond, Va., for 
the city council. He has been engaged in a 
professional capacity by the Heyden Chemi- 
cal Works, Garfield, N. J.; the Terminal 
Warehouse Co., the Durant Land Lnprove- 
ment Co., the Market & Fulton Bank (in 
connection with R. N. Baylis, Stevens, '87), 
the Phoenix Iron Works Co., A. L. Marvin, 
Esq., and. the New York Herald, of New 
York; and for the San Francisco Examiner, 
San Francisco, Cal. General work on re- 
frigerating plants has taken him to Montreal, 
Canada, and to Cuba. He is consulting en- 
gineer for Charles C. Moore & Co., San 
Francisco, Cal., and for the Guaranty De- 
velopment Co., New York; and is the New 
York representative of the Harrison Safety 
Boiler Works, Philadelphia, Pa. 



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Mr. Idell has rendered expert services in 
the cases of Stevens vs. United States Des- 
iccated Cocoanut Co. ; Durant Land Im- 
provement Co. vs. East River Electric Light 
Co. ; and Durant Land Improvement Co. vs. 
T. & H. Electric Co. 

He has edited the following books for the 
Van Nostrand Science Series : " Chimneys 
for Furnaces and Steam Boilers"; "Boiler 
Incrustation and Corrosion"; "Theory of 
the Gas Engine " ; " Compressed Air " ; 
" Triple-Expansion Engines and Engine- 
Trials." 

Mr. Idell is a member of the American 
Society of Mechanical Engineers ; an asso- 
ciate member of the American Institute of 
Electrical Engineers; and a member of the 
Tau Beta Pi fraternity. In 1894 he was 
elected to represent the Akmmi Association 
on the Board of Trustees of the Institute, 
and served until 1897. 

Idell, Percy Child (M.E., '99), was born 
in Hoboken, N. J., December 30, 1878; son 
of David Beatty and Emma Bertha Idell. 
He is American on both sides of the family 
since the early part of the eighteenth cen- 
tury. He was educated in the public schools 




of Hoboken, and entered the Institute on a 
scholarship of the Hudson County schools. 
He was draughtsman in the engineering de- 
partment of the Babcock & Wilcox C-o., 



New York, manufacturers of forged steel 
water-tube marine boilers, 1899-1900, since 
which time he has been assistant engineer 
■in the department of tests. He is a junior 
member of the American Society of Me- 
chanical Engineers, and a member of the 
Delta Tau Delta and Tau Beta Pi frater- 
nities. 

Mr. Idell married Alice E. Ketcham, of 
Hoboken, October 25, 1904. 

Inglis, Beattie Andrew (M.E., '93), was 
born in Madison, Fla., April 20, 1871. He 
attended public schools in Madison until 15 
years old, and in 1886 entered the South 
Carolina Military Academy at Charleston, 
finishing his preparatory education at the 
Stevens School and entering Stevens In- 
stitute in 1889. 

Since graduation he has been in the em- 
ploy of the Florida Manufacturing Co., Mad- 
ison, Fla., and at times with the Dunnellen 
Phosphate Co., Dunnellen, Fla., which was 
under practically the same management for 
some years. His work with the latter com- 
pany consisted principally in designing and 
constructing phosphate plants. During his 
Junior vacation he designed a storage ware- 
house for phosphate, 400 feet long by 40 
feet wide, built on columns to allow cars to 
be loaded from chutes. After thoroughly 
learning the details of the plant of the Flor- 
ida Manufacturing Co., and its operation, 
he was gradually promoted, and in 1898 was 
made superintendent, a position he still 
holds, as well as being on the board of direc- 
tors. He has complete charge of the plant 
and its repairs, operation, changes, and ad- 
ditions ; has designed several storage ware- 
houses and superintended their construction ; 
also a system of water-works for fire pro- 
tection, electric-light plant, battery of 72 
in. X 20 ft. return tubular boilers with self- 
supported steel stack, and other work. 

The Florida Manufacturing Co. buys Sea 
Island cotton for its thread-mills, and a 
large portion of this cotton is bought in the 
seed and has to be ginned. The ginnery is 
the largest in this country — probably the 
largest in existence — using roller gins, of 
which the company operates 40. On cold 
dry days a peculiar problem presented itself; 
the rollers, which are covered with rubber 
and canvas piston-packing, would become 



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electrically charged by rubbing against the 
lint, which would thus stick to the rollers 
and break the gins. After some experiments, 




remembering that on warm damp days the 
late Prof. Mayer could do nothing toward 
his experiments in frictional electricity, he 
arranged perforated pipes under the rollers, 
and, by means of a centrifugal blower and a 
steam heater with a jet of steam in the air 
pipe, forced warm, moist air on the rollers, 
which not only solved the difficulty of the 
cotton's sticking, but blew it into a lint basket 
and warmed the building at the same time. 
The cotton seeds are carried to the oil mill 
as they drop from the gins, and are then 
crushed, making crude cotton-seed oil and 
cotton-seed cake and meal. 

Mr. Inglis is a member of the Kappa Al- 
pha (Southern) fraternity, and of Madison 
Lodge of the Knights of Pythias. 

Mr. Inglis is the son of John Livingston 
and Louise Olive (Thomas) Inglis. His 
grandfather, Andrew Inglis, a Scotchman, 
came to America about 1850, and became 
interested in tlie People's Iron Works of 
Philadelphia. He was among the first to 
advocate the placing of tubes in boilers. 
Beattie Andrew Inglis married Katharine 
Eugenia Livingston, January 25, 1899, and 
they have three children, John Livingston, 
2d ; Beattie Andrew, Jr., and Clifford Thomas 
Inglis. 



Inglis, Robert Napier (M.E., '02), was 
born in Jersey City, N. J., August 10, 1880, 
son of William and Mary Allan (Macaulay) 
Inglis. He is a graduate of the public 
schools of Jersey City and of the Stevens 
Preparatory School. He is engaged in gen- 
eral engineering construction work with M. 
W. Kellogg & Co., engineers and contrac- 
tors. New York. He is a member of the 
Tau Beta Pi fraternity. 

Irwin, Franklin Kilshaw (M.E., '83), was 
born in Mobile, Ala., December 4, 1859. He 
prepared for college in Towle's Collegiate 
Institute at Mobile, and was a student at 
Georgetown College, D. C, in the Class of 
1882 for the freshman year only. He was 
draughtsman with the American Shipbuild- 
ing Co., Philadelphia, Pa., 1883-84; chief 
draughtsman and mechanical engineer in the 
motive-power department of the Wisconsin 
Central Railroad, Waukesha, Wis., 1884- 
1900; superintendent of car construction for 
the International Correspondence Schools of 
Scranton, Pa., for whom he planned and 
built three air-brake instruction cars, 1900; 
assistant engineer in charge of the designing 
and construction of repair shops and equip- 




Irwin 



ment with the Union Pacific Railroad Co., 
Omaha, Neb., 1900-04; and is now mechani- 
cal engineer with the Galena Signal Oil Co., 
Franklin, Pa. He is a member of Waukesha 



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Lodge 37, Free and Accepted Masons ; Wau- 
kesha Chapter 37, Royal Arch Masons, and 
of the Beta Theta Pi fraternity. 

Mr. Irwin is the son of Thomas Kilshavv 
and Mary (Ketchum) Irwin. His father, 
an American born of Scotch-English parent- 
age, traces his descent (on his mother's side) 
from Generals Howe and Greene of Revolu- 
tionary fame, and was an officer in Gen. J. E. 
Johnston's Confederate army. Mr. Irwin 
married Mary A. McHenry, September 11, 
1890, and they have one child, Kilshaw Mc- 
Henry Irwin. 

Jackson, Bethel Howard (M.E., '95), was 
born in East Orange, N. J., August 30, 1874; 




B. H. Jackson 

son of Francis \'V. and Adeline (Egbert) 
Jackson. He was an Instructor during 
the Supplementary Term at Stevens Insti- 
tute, 1895 ; was employed in the Mount Clare 
shops and as inspector in the department of 
tests of the Baltimore & Ohio Railroad, Bal- 
timore, Md., 1895-96; and was general as- 
sistant to F. J. Falding, consulting chemical 
engineer. New York, for whom he was en- 
gaged in designing and constructing, in 
various parts of the United States, chemical 
plants and apparatus chiefly for the manu- 
facture of sulphuric acid, 1896-98. Owing 
to failing health he left for Europe in July, 
1898, intending to study technical chemistry; 



but after some months of work with Prof. 
Lunge at the Federal Polytechnic School, 
Zurich, Switzerland, he was compelled to 
seek further change, and spent about four 
years in Germany, Switzerland, Italy, and 
France. Mr. Jackson returned to America 
in October, 1902, and is at present in the 
West. 

Jackson, Francis Egbert (M.E., '86), was 
born in Brooklyn, N. Y., June 27, 1865; son 
of Francis Whiting and Adeline (Egbert) 
Jackson. He was with the Edison Lamp 
Co., Harrison, N. J., 1886-94; at first in the 
testing and standardizing department, and 
afterward as inspector of electric lighting 
plants. He then became a member of the 
firm of F. E. Jackson & Co., which later was 
changed to the Essex Lamp Co., manufac- 
turers of incandescent lamps. Upon resign- 
ing his active interest in that company he 
formed a partnership with Mr. J. W. Ayls- 
worth, under the firm name of Aylsworth & 
Jackson, and became the managing partner 
of the firm, 1894-98. The chief business of 
this firm was the manufacture of incandes- 
cent-lamp filaments. Through its experi- 
mental department the firm became interested 
in the X-ray after Prof. Roentgen's discovery, 
and took up the manufacture of fluorescent 
screens. Since May I, 1898, Mr. Jackson has 
been sole proprietor of the business, which 
he conducts under his own name. His grad- 
uating thesis, on " Crank Pin Stresses," was 
published in the Franklin Institute Journal, 
1886. He has also written several articles of 
a commercial nature for technical journals. 
He is a member of the American Institute 
of Electrical Engineers. 

Jackson, Henry Whiting (M.E., '92), was 
born in East Orange, N. J., July 8, 1872. 
He held several positions in different com- 
panies from 1892 to 1894, and then started 
business in the manufacture and sale of 
incandescent lamps. He was connected with 
the Essex Lamp Co., of Newark, N. J., from 
1894 to 1900; and in the latter year became 
connected with the Sawyer-Man Electric 
Co., New York, being made assistant super- 
intendent in 1901, and acting superintendent 
in 1902. 

Mr. Jackson is the son of Francis W. and 
Adeline (Egbert) Jackson. He married Har- 



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riet M. Egbert, October 23, 1901, and they 
have one child, Elisabeth Egbert Jackson. 




II. W. J.JlCkson 

Jackson, Walter Weldon (M.E., '89), was 
born in East Orange, N. J., January 4, 1870. 
He was in the employ of the Safety Car 
Heating & Lighting Co., New York, 1889: 
and with the Builders' Iron Foundry, Prov- 
idence, R. I., 1889-99, first as draughtsman, 
next as machinist, and later in charge of the 
A'enturi meter department, and conducting 
tests. In May, 1899, he joined the Provi- 
dence Engineering Works as assistant super- 
intendent, and in March of the following 
year resigned to accept the position of su- 
perintendent of the Wheeler Condenser & 
Engineering Co., Carteret, N. J. This posi- 
tion he held until February, 1904, when he 
resigned, and has since been engaged in 
consulting and expert engineering work. 

Jointly with Mr. F. N. Connet (M.E., '89) 
he took out a patent for an integrating-ma- 
chine for the Venturi meter. Of this inven- 
tion the Journal of the Franklin Institute 
states : 

"Its invention, design, and perfection are the 
fruit of great ingenuity and of much knowledge 
and painstaking labor, and they have been of 
vast benefit to the community by making the 
Venturi meter a working tool. Its inventors, 
Messrs. Frederick N. Connet and Walter W. 
Jackson, of Providence, R. I., are therefore en- 
titled to distinguished honor at the hands of 



Franklin Institute, and we take pleasure in 
recommending the award to them of the John 
Scott Legacy Preinium Medal for their register- 
ing apparatus." 

In 1899 Mr. Jackson patented a controller 
for filters, which is designed to maintain an 
absolutely uniform rate of discharge from a 
filter unit under varying conditions of the bed. 
He is a member of the American Society 
of Mechanical Engineers ; of the American 
Foundrymen's Association ; and of the Chi 
Psi fraternity. 

Mr. Jackson is the son of Francis W. and 
.-\deline (Egbert) Jackson. He married 




W. W. J.-\CKSON 

Ellen W. Halton, October 31, 1894, and they 
have one child, Frances Halton Jackson. 

Jacobs, William Egbert (M.E., '79), was 
born in Brooklyn, N. Y., February 18, 1855. 
For the last fifteen years he has been in the 
business of selling mining-machinery and 
contracting for the erection of mining and 
milling plants. He is a member of the firm 
of Jones & Jacobs, engineers and contrac- 
tors, Salt Lake City, Utah, whose plans for 
the construction of mills and hoisting works 
are largely his personal work. He is also 
in general practice as a civil engineer. He 
was at one time engineer of the Diamond 
Coal & Coke Co., the erection of whose works 
he planned and superintended. 

Mr. Jacobs is the son of Egbert Cumstom 



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and Caroline Elliot Jacobs. He married Ida 
May Frye, June i, 1903. 




E. Jacobs 



Jacobus, David S. (M.E., '84), Professor of 
Experimental Engineering at the Stevens In- 
stitute of Technology. For biography, see 
page 257. 

Jenkins, Matthew C. (M.E., '87), was in 
the steel mill of the Lackawanna Iron & Steel 
Co., 1887-88; was draughtsman on bridge and 
structural ironwork with Post & McCord, 
New York, 1888-93; general agent and me- 
chanical engineer with the Coxe Iron Manu- 
facturing Co., New York, being employed at 
the same time upon engineering work for 
Coxe Bros. & Co., Inc., and for the Cross 
Creek Coal Co., 1893-97; Eastern sales agent 
for the Abendroth & Root Manufacturing Co., 
for several years; and is now general man- 
ager of the Spiral Riveted Tube Co., New 
York. He read a paper on " Smoke Preven- 
tion " before the Franklin Institute of Phila- 
delphia in 1897, si^d is a member of the 
American Society of Mechanical Engineers 
and of the Franklin Institute. 

Jennings, Randolph Parmly (M.E., '99), 
was born in Jersey City, N. J., May 12, 1877; 
son of Ernest F. and Alice Clough Jennings. 
His father (born in New York city) is of 
old Connecticut stock, tracing back to " May- 
flower " days. His mother's parentage is of 



old Hudson River Dutch ancestry, from Ath- 
ens and Hudson, N. Y. He is also a de- 
scendant of Gen. Nathaniel Greene, of Revo- 
lutionary fame. 

Mr. Jennings was a cadet engineer with 
the United Gas Improvement Co., Philadel- 
phia, 1899-1901, first in the Jersey City 
plant; next in charge of the Bayonne works 
of the Hudson County Gas Co., and of the 
distribution work of the company, during 
which time several miles of 16 in.. and 24 in. 
trunk mains were laid ; in charge of the 
Consumers' works of the Hudson County 
Gas Co., and of experimental work, improve- 
ments, etc. Owing to ill health he resigned 
his position with the gas company in the fall 
of 1901, and formed a partnership with A. E. 
Banks under the name of Jennings & Banks, 
and went to Mexico, where he represented 
" The Locomobile Company of America," 
with offices in Monterey. He is now also 
engaged in general engineering and mining 
in Mexico. 

He read a paper at the annual meeting 
of the superintendents of the United Gas 




R. P. Jennings 

Improvement Co., February, 1901, on " Some 
Experiments in Water-Gas Manufacture at 
Jersey City, N. J." He is a member of the 
Theta Xi and Tau Beta Pi fraternities; of 
the Theta Xi Graduate Club of New York; 
the Palma Club of Jersey City; the Uni- 
versity Club of Hudson County, N. J. : the 



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Yoimtakah Country Club of Nutley, N. J.; 
and of the Casino of Monterey, Mex. 

Jennings, William H., Jr. (M.E., '96), was 
born in South Orange, N. J., July 15, 1874; 
son of William H. and Marion A. Jennings. 
He was in the employ of the Standard Oil 
Co., New York, 1896-98; with Robert F. 
Wentz, Nazareth, Pa., 1898-1901 ; was located 
at Bay City, Mich., 1901-02; and from the 
latter year to date has been erecting engineer 
for the Allis-Chalmers Co., at Barcelona, 
Spain. 

Jennings, William James (M.E., '00), was 
born in Redruth, Cornwall, England, January 



W. Hunt & Co., Chicago. He is a member 
of the Theta Xi fraternity, and of its gradu- 
ate club. 

Mr. Jennings is the son of William and 
Martha Jennings. His father was for 18 
years superintendent of motive power of the 
Mexican International Railroad; he is now 
general superintendent of the Pacific Elec- 
tric Traction Co., Los Angeles, Cal. W. J. 
Jennings married Edith Allison, March 27, 
1901, and they have one child, William Alli- 
son Jennings. 

Jewell, Theodore E. (M.E., '95), has been 
with the Hecker-Jones-Jewell Milling Co., 
Brooklyn, N. Y., from 1895 to date. 




W. J. Jennings 

6, 1874, where he lived until he was seven 
years old, then coming to New York State, 
where he remained for three years, next 
going to Mexico, where he lived until he was 
twenty-one. He attended a private school at 
San Antonio, Tex., and served as machinist 
and draughtsman in the shops of the Mexi- 
can International Railway. He obtained a 
scholarship from the Master Mechanics' As- 
sociation, and entered Stevens Institute with 
the Class of 1900. He was with the Stand- 
ard Pneumatic Tool Co., of Chicago, as man- 
ager of its Pittsburg office, 1900; was then 
made foreign manager, with office in Paris, 
a position he resigned in June, 1902. He is 
now inspecting and testing engineer with R. 



Jobbins, William E. (M.E., '82), was lo- 
cated at Aurora, 111., 1883-85, and at Chicago, 
111., 1885-87, in which latter year he died. 

Johnson, Luther Halsey (M.E., '98), was 
born in Newark, N. J., October 12, 1877; 
son of J. William and Josephine P. Johnson. 
His father's family was one of the settlers 
of Newark, N. J., in 1660. His early edu- 
cation was received in the public schools of 
Newark and Summit, N. J. He was in the 
Stevens Preparatory School one year before 
entering the Institute. He was in the em- 




L. H. Johnson 

ploy of the Derby Gas Co., Derby, Conn., 
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Improvement Co. from the latter year to 
date, as follows: At their works in Omaha, 
Neb., 1899, where he was the clerk of works, 
1899-1900; with the Sioux City (Iowa) Gas 
Light Co., 1900; foreman of works of the 
Sioux City Gas & Electric Co., 1900-03; and 
superintendent of the Consumers' works of 
the Hudson County Gas Co., Jersey City, 
N. J., from 1903 to date. He is a member of 
the Chi Psi fraternity. 

Johnson, Theodore Woolsey (M.E., '96), 
was born in Owego, N. Y., June 4, 1872. He 
graduated as Bachelor of Arts in classical 
subjects at Johns Hopkins University in 
1892, and was for three years a graduate 
student in science at the same institution 
under Prof. Henry Rowland. He was in the 
locomotive erecting shop of the Baltimore & 
Ohio Locomotive Works, Mount Clare, Bal- 
timore, for three months, as an apprenticed 
mechanic, and in January, 1897, he was ap- 
pointed, after civil-service examination, as- 
sistant inspector of steel for the United States 
Navy. This position he held until June, 1898, 
being stationed at the Bethlehem Iron Co., 
South Bethlehem, Pa., at the Midvale Steel 
Co., Philadelphia, Pa.; and at the American 
Steel Casting Co., Thurlow, Pa. In 1898 he 
entered into partnership with Mr. Jay M. 
Whitman and conducted professional engi- 
neering work at Philadelphia. In January, 
1900, in a competitive examination, he won 
the Professorship of Drawing at the Naval 
Academy, Annapolis, a position which he 
now holds. 

Mr. Johnson's graduating thesis, written 
jointly with Mr. A. J. Wood, on " Efficiency 
and Capacity Test and Comparison of the 
Effect of ' Statical ' and 'Sliding' Head in 
Driving the Hydraulic Ram," was published 
in the Stevens Institute Indicator, April, 
1898. He is also the author of chapters " On 
the Theory of the Connecting-Rod," and " On 
Designing Connecting-Rods" (38 pages), 
in the " Notes on the Design of Propelling 
Machinery for Naval Vessels " published by 
the U. S. Naval Institute, Annapolis, Md., 
1902. He is a member of the Engineers' 
Club of Philadelphia; an associate member 
of the American Society of Mechanical En- 
gineers; and of the Alpha Delta Phi and 
Phi Beta Kappa fraternities (Johns Hopkins 
Chapters). 



Mr. Johnson is the son of W. Woolsey 
and Susannah Leverett (Batcheller) John- 
son. His father is descended from the Strat- 




T. W. Johnson 

ford (Conn.) Johnson, and the Woolsey, 
Livingston, and Bayard families of New 
York. His mother is descended from the 
Batchellers of New Hampshire and the Lev- 
eretts (Colonial Governor Sir John Lever- 
ett) of Massachusetts. He married Mary 
Carter Craven, April 19, 1902. 

Jones, Edward Lathrop (M.E., '92), was 
born in Franklin, Conn., June 12, 1868. He 
was draughtsman with the Link-Belt Engi- 
neering Co., New York, 1892; held the same 
position with the Crowell Clutch & Pulley 
Co., Westfield, N. Y., 1892-1902; and with the 
Lackawanna Steel Co., Buffalo, N. Y., from 
1902 to date. He was granted a patent for 
an improvement on a friction clutch in 1894. 
He is a member of the Royal Arcanum. 

Mr. Jones is the son of Franklin Chappell 
and Harriet L. Wurts Jones. He married 
Lizzie J. Thompson, August 9, 1894. 

Jones, Frank Cazenove (M.E., '78), was 
engineer and draughtsman with the Baldwin 
Locomotive Works, Philadelphia, Pa., 1878- 
79; assistant engineer with the Delaware 
Bridge Co., in the field, erecting bridges, and 
later on in charge of inspection of work and 
the draughting-room at Trenton, N. J., 1879- 



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80 ; mechanical engineer and factory manager 
in the works of the New York Belting & 
Packing Co., in Connecticut and New Jersey, 
1881-93, during part of this time being also 
general manager of the factory of the Okon- 
ite Co. and of the International Okonite Co., 
Passaic, N. J., and building and equipping 
two rubber factories and one insulating fac- 
tory. He has been president and general 
manager of the Manhattan Rubber Manufac- 
turing Co., from 1893 to date. This company 
built and equipped its own works at Passaic, 
N. J. Mr. Jones is a member of the Ameri- 
can Society of Mechanical Engineers, and of 
the Engineers' Club. 

Jones, Henry Parsons (M.E., 90), was 
born in Hoosick Falls, N. Y., April 2^, 1868. 
He received his primary education in the 
grammar and high schools at Hoosick Falls. 
He was employed in draughting work on 
automatic screw machinery for Russel & 
Erwin, New Britain, Conn., 1888; in the 
civil engineer's office at the United States 
Navy Yard, Portsmouth, N. H., engaged 



New Britain, 1892; with the Pennsylvania 
Steel Co., Steelton, Pa., engaged in plant- 
construction, 1892-93; in business in New 
York, 1893-94; with the Pennsylvania Steel 
Co., 1894-97, as engineer of surveys, street 
railway department; was engaged on engi- 
neering work, principally in New York city, 
1897-98; associated with G. A. Wright, C.E., 
designing waterworks at Lindsay, Pa., 1898- 
99 ; with the Planters' Compress Co., Bos- 
ton, engaged in developing and placing in 
the field a round-bale system for pressing 
cotton, 1899-1901 ; with the Fore River Ship 
& Engine Co., Quincy, Mass., 1901-03 ; as- 
sociated with the building committee of the 
United Shoe Machinery Co., 1903 ; and is 
now with the industrial and power depart- 
ment of the Westinghouse Electric & Man- 
ufacturing Co. in New York. 

Mr. Jones has written the following arti- 
cles for technical journals: 

"Comparison of Ball Automatic Cut-Off Gear 
and Stephenson Link Motion." Transactions 
of the American Association for the Advancement 
of Science, i8go; Stevens Indicator, October, 




Jones 



upon construction of buildings. Navy Hos- 
pital, reservoir and waterworks system, etc., 
1890-91 ;, with the Berlin Iron Bridge Co., 
1891-92; was associated with H. K. Jones, 
of Hartford and New Britain, Conn., in the 
development of an annealing process, also 
with the Russel & Erwin Manufacturing Co., 



"A Non-O-Kidizing Process of Annealing." 
Engineering News, 1892, I, 5; Engineering and 
Mining Journal, 1892; Kent's Mechanical Engi- 
neer's Pockct-Book, p. 387. 

"Girder Rails in Building Construction." 
Engineering Record, August 4, 1894. 

"A Protractor for Compound Curves." Engi- 
neering News, 1895, II, 246. 

"Present Status of the Centrifugal Pump," 
Ibid., 1899, I, 155. 

"Importance of Economizing Tonnage Facili- 
ties by Compact Stowage of Cargoes." Ibid., 
1901, I, 150. 

"The Development of Shipyard Crane Ser- 
vice." Ibid., 1901, II, 402. 

"The Seven-Masted Schooner — In General 
and in Detail." Ibid., November 26, 1902. 

He has also compiled " Cost Tables for Seed 
Cotton' and Lint," copyrighted in 1901. He 
is a junior member of the American Society 
of Mechanical Engineers and a member of 
the Delta Tau Delta fraternity. 

Mr. Jones is the son of Edward M. and 
Blandina (Burtis) Jones. He married Car- 
oline Seymour Hull, June 20, 1899, ^"^ they 
have one son, Edward Milton Jones. 

Jones, Robert R. (M.E., 'oi), was employed 
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of the National Tube Co., Wheeling, Va., 
and is now located at Chicago, 111., with the 
Illinois Steel Co. He is a member of the 
Tau Beta Pi fraternity. 

Jones, William Anthony (M.E., '94), was 
born in Nanuet, Rockland County, N. Y., 




W. A. Jones 

September 21, 1872. He attended the Adel- 
phi Academy, Brooklyn, for seven years pre- 
vious to entering Stevens Institute. He was 
Instructor during the Supplementary Term 
at Stevens, 1894; draughtsman with Bement, 
Miles, & Co., Philadelphia, machine-tool 
builders, 1894-95 ; Instructor at Drexel In- 
stitute, Philadelphia, teaching mechanical 
drawing, descriptive geometry, and applied 
and experimental mechanics, 1895-98; de- 
signer with the Betts Machine Co., Wilming- 
ton, Del., in the summer of 1896, during 
which time a 15-inch slotting-machine, de- 
signed by him for this company, was de- 
scribed and illustrated in the American Ma- 
chinist; designer for the C. W. Hunt Co., 
West New Brighton, N. Y., builders of coal- 
handling and conveying machinery, 1898- 
1900; and in the engineering department of 
the Babcock & Wilcox Co., employed in build- 
ing its new plant at Bayonne, N. J., and since 
in designing special machinery, from 1900 to 
date. During the year 1903, he spent two 
months at the Renfrew (Scotland) works of 
the Babcock & Wilcox Co. 



Mr. Jones is the son of Anthony and Emily 
Johnson (Tremaine) Jones. His father, An- 
thony Jones, a civil engineer, was born in 
London, and on his mother's side he comes 
from Revolutionary and French and Indian 
War stock. He married Sallie Pringle Fis- 
ler, December 24, 1896. 

Joubert, Frederick L. (M.E., '91), was en- 
gaged in the ironworks of John H. Murphy, 
New Orleans, La., as draughtsman and chief 
draughtsman, 1891-95; and has been a mem- 
ber of the firm of Payne & Joubert, New 
Orleans, La., from 1895 to date. This firm 
makes a specialty of sugar machinery, con- 
tracts for the complete erection and furnish- 
ing of refineries and sugar-houses, and has a 
patent on improved hollow-blast bagasse- 
burners, which they build. 

Keepers, Edgar S. (M.E., '02), is with 
the Middle States Inspection Bureau, New 
York. 

Kellogg, Ernest D. (M.E., '98), has been 
employed in the laboratory of Thomas A. 
Edison, Orange, N. J. ; and is at present 
engineer at the Post & McCord branch of 
the American Bridge Co., Brooklyn, N. Y. 

Kellogg, Morris Woodruff (M.E., '94), 
was born in Elizabeth, N. J., January 16, 
1873; son of James Crane and Elizabeth L. 
(Woodruff) Kellogg. He is a direct de- 
scendant of John Rogers, the Martyr. He 
assisted Mr. Charles Emery, the well-known 
engineer, upon some scientific tests on the 
efficiencies, economies, etc., of a fuel-pulver- 
izer in connection with boiler-practice; and 
was later with Mr. W. T. Hiscox (Cornell, 
Hiscox, & Underbill, and W. T. Hiscox & 
Co.), New York, whose firms made a spe- 
cialty of all kinds of power-house and factory 
construction work. In this connection Mr. 
Kellogg had complete charge of the Mid- 
dlesex Water Co.'s plant, running from South 
Plainfield through Metuchen and Wood- 
bridge to Carteret, N. J., and also of the 
erection of the power-house, containing 
1,250 horse-power of boilers, for the At 
lantic branch of the National Lead Co. 
Brooklyn. 

In 1899, in conjunction with Mr. James 
L. Alexander, he established the firm of 



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Kellogg & Alexander, New York, as en- 
gineers and contractors for factory and mill 
construction, making a specialty of the con- 
struction of high-pressure steam-piping, and 
of conveying-lines for coal, ores, phosphates, 
etc. In 1902 this firm was succeeded by that 
of M. W. Kellogg & Co., consisting of the 
subject of this sketch and Mr. William B. 
Osgood Field. Among other work the firm 
has installed a plant for handling fertilizer 
material for the largest fertilizer works in 
the United States, handling 125,000 tons. 
The firm's business also includes the im- 
proved perforated radial brick chimneys built 
by them. Mr. Kellogg is a member of the 
University Club of New York; the Subur- 
ban Riding and Driving Club; the Engi- 
neers' Club of New York; the Elizabeth 
Town and Country Club; Squadron A of 
New York; and of the Chi Psi fraternity. 

Kelly, James Forrest (M.E., '79), was 
born in Ireland, October 16, i860. He was 
with the Gold & Stock Telegraph Co., New 
York, 1879-80; in charge of the testing-room 
of the Western Electric Co., New York, 
1881-82; electrician with the Electrical Sup- 
ply Co., New York, 1883-87; manager of the 
wire department of the Edison Machine 
Works and its successors, the Edison Gen- 
eral Electric Co., the General Electric Co., 
and the United States Wire & Cable Co., 
1887-94; and has been with the New York 
Insulated Wire Co., New York, from 1895 
to date. 

Mr. Kelly is the son of Jeremiah and Kate 
(Forrest) Kelly. He married Julia Ken- 
nedy, October 27, 1885, and they have two 
children, Forrest and Gerald Kelly. 

Kelly, John Forrest (Ph.D., '78), was born 
in Carrick-on-Suir, Ireland, March 28, 1859. 
He was a chemist in the laboratory of Thomas 
A. Edison, 1879; electrician with the West- 
ern Electric Co., New York, 1879-82; assist- 
ant to Mr. Edward Weston, then chief 
electrician of the United States Electric 
Lighting Co., 1882; with the Parker Electric 
Lighting Co., afterward known as the Rem- 
ington Co., 1882-84; and with the United 
States Electric Lighting Co., 1884-86. Dur- 
ing this period he was closely identified with 
the now historical work of the old United 
States Co., covering not only the field of 



electrical-machine design, but also those of 
the incandescent and arc lamps. He was 
chief electrician, remaining in charge of all 
the electrical work of that company, until 




John F. Kelly 

its absorption by the Westinghouse Electric 
Co., with which latter company his position 
remained substantially similar, except in 
title (as he was the electrician of the New- 
ark shops of the Westinghouse Co.) until 
his resignation, in January, 1892, to join the 
Stanley Laboratory Co., which had just been 
organized in Pittsfield, Mass., and with which 
he was actively connected until January, 
1895. During this period he and his associ- 
ates designed the now well-known " S.K.C." 
alternating current inductor generator, and 
arranged with the Stanley Electric Manufac- 
turing Co. to place on the market a complete 
system for the transmission and distribution 
of power by alternating currents. In 1895 
he resigned from the Stanley Laboratory Co. 
and took a position as consulting electrical 
engineer to the Stanley Electric Manufac- 
turing Co., Pittsfield, and the Royal Electric 
Co. of Montreal, Canada, which companies 
were at this time actively entering the field 
of alternating-current work. Mr. Kelly still 
holds this relation to the Stanley Electric 
Manufacturing Co. For about ten years he 
had entire charge of the patent affairs of the 
Stanley Laboratory Co. and the Stanley 
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important litigation between these companies 
on the one hand, and the Westinghouse and 
General Electric companies on the other, he 
was uniformly successful. He is also con- 
sulting engineer and director of the Stanley 
Instrument Co., of Great Barrington, Mass., 
and consulting engineer and president of the 
John F. Kelly Engineering Co., consulting 
and contracting engineers. New York. 

As an inventor Mr. Kelly's career has been 
active and brilliant. Early in 1891 he showed 
the prejudicial effects of lagging currents on 
alternating-current power and lighting cir- 
cuits, and, in conjunction with his associates, 
at that time patented and developed an alter- 
nating-current induction motor having a 
condenser in parallel with the main motor 
circuit for furnishing the lagging component 
of the motor current. In 1892 he pointed 
out the value of synchronous motors on al- 
ternating-current circuits, and showed that, 
by a proper adjustment of the field, the ar- 
mature current of a synchronous motor can 
be made to lag or lead the e. m. f. of the line 
as desired, and in consequence can be made 
to correct, not only the lagging or leading 
currents of the circuit, but used as a voltage 
regulator for an entire transmission system. 
A patent for a synchronous motor used as a 
condenser was issued to him in 1893. 

During the same year he pointed out that 
in the operation of alternating-current motors 
and also of transformers, and in the general 
transmission of power by alternating cur- 
rents, it is of considerable importance that 
the currents and magnetic fluxes should vary 
sinusoidally, for experience had shown even 
at that time that the more nearly such a con- 
dition is approached the less are the losses 
and idle currents. A first step toward ob- 
taining these conditions is the making of the 
impressed e. m. f. of the generator sinusoidal. 
To accomplish this it is necessary and suffi- 
cient that the magnetic flux through the ar- 
mature coils should vary sinusoidally. In 
order to accomplish this latter result and ob- 
tain a sinusoidal c. m. f., Mr. Kelly, in 1893, 
designed alternating-current generators in 
which the poles were shaped so that the clear- 
ance or air-gap varied in an inverse sinu- 
soidal manner, and consequently the flux and 
generator e. in. f. varied sinusoidally. This 
was probably the first attempt to shape scien- 
tifically the poles of alternators to obtain a 



predetermined e. m. f. wave, and was the 
basis of a United States patent issued to 
him in 1894. 

Among his later inventions may be men- 
tioned the " non-hysteresis growth " trans- 
former iron, the static ground-detector, and 
various measuring-instruments. It is per- 
tinent here to remark that he has always 
been an advocate of extreme voltages in 
transmission work, and is recognized as the 
original " 60,000-volt man." 

He has devoted much attention to the pro- 
tection of electric plants from lightning, and 
has introduced two novel and effective types 
of arrester. One of these is similar in prin- 
ciple to the coherer of the wireless tele- 
graph. The other is a sort of electric sieve, 
shutting out waves of the normal frequency 
while allowing the high frequency electric 
waves due to lightning to pass with the ut- 
most freedom. 

In co-operation with Mr. Stanley, Mr. 
Kelly has recently introduced a new form of 
alternator in which the principle of the trans- 
former is combined with the ordinary dy- 
namic action. The exciting current in this 
machine varies spontaneously whenever the 
load is altered either in amount or charac- 
ter, so as to maintain the induced electro- 
motive force constant. 

One of the most recent and at the same 
time largest of installations designed by Mr. 
Kelly is the Bay Counties power plant at 
Colgate, Cal., where was placed in operation 
in 1902 three dynamos of 3,000 horse-power 
each. These dynamos are connected to Ris- 
don water-wheels driven by a column of 
water with a 700-foot fall. Current is trans- 
mitted to San Francisco, 142 miles away, at 
a pressure of 40,000 and 60,000 volts, or 
twice and three times the transmission pres- 
sure used at Niagara. This plant was de- 
scribed and illustrated in " Harper's Weekly," 
and in the " New York Herald," December 
I, 1901. 

He is widely known as one of the fore- 
most of the world's electrical engineers, being 
quoted largely in Thompson's " Polyphase 
Alternating Currents " and in Niethammer's 
" Ein-und-Mehrphasen Wechselstrom-Erzeu- 
ger." At a recent hearing of the case of 
Westinghouse Electric Co. vs. Stanley In- 
strument Co., the complainant's counsel 
spoke of Mr. Kelly as " an electrician of 



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high scientific attainments," and as " prob- 
ably the best-informed person on the subject- 
matter of the suit ; " while the defendant's 
counsel characterized him as having " a 
practical experience in regard to alternating- 
current apparatus that is perhaps unequalled 
by anybody in the country." 

He has been instrumental in taking out a 
large number of patents in his line of work. 
Of these 26 have been issued in his own name, 
32 in conjunction with Mr. William Stanley, 
7 in conjunction with Mr. C. C. Chesney, 
and 2 others in which he was associated with 
Messrs. Stanley and Chesney, and one with 
Messrs. Chesney and R. W. Power. Of these 
]jatents 39 have been issued by the United 
States, and the remainder by foreign coun- 
tries, including England, France, Belgium, 
Germany, Austria-Hungary, Italy, and Can- 
ada. 

Mr. Kelly is a member of the American 
Institute of Electrical Engineers ; the Engi- 
neers' Club; the American Association for 
the Advancement of Science ; the Societe In- 
ternationale des Electriciens ; the Institution 
of Electrical Engineers (England) ; the 
American Economic Association ; the Ameri- 
can Electrochemical Society; the American 
Academy of Political Science; and of the 
American Statistical Association. 

Mr. Kelly is the son of Jeremiah and Kate 
(Forrest) Kelly. He married Helen Tischer 
in 1892, and they have two children, Eoghan 
and Domnall Kelly. 

Kelly, Moore (M.E., '99), was born in 
New York city September 6, 1877; son of 
Thomas P. and Mary J. Kelly. He was en- 
gaged as chain-level-man, transit-man, and 
head of party, in the field engineering corps 
of Naughton & Co., contractors (who were 
at that time changing the motive power from 
horse to underground electric on the Third 
Avenue lines in New York), in 1899-1900. 
Eater he was employed in the testing depart- 
ment of the Bristol Co., Waterbury, Conn., 
and as draughtsman and assistant to mechani- 
cal engineer with Colgate & Co., soap-manu- 
facturers, Jersey City, N. J., in 1900; in which 
year he, together with a classmate, Charles 
W. Owston, Jr., established and conducted 
a sales agency as Eastern representatives for 
the C. H. Shaw Pneumatic Tool Co., Den- 
ver, Col. The Eclipse Co., of New York, 



was then organized to do a general sales 
agency business, making a specialty of pneu- 
matic appliances ; Mr. Owston being made 
president, and Mr. Kelly one of the board 




Moore Kelly 

of directors, 1900-02. The company sub- 
sequently established branch offices in Pitts- 
burg, Chicago, and Boston, Mr. Kelly first 
opening up the Boston office and territory, 
later assuming the management of the Pitts- 
Imrg office. He was also associated with 
Messrs. Edwin S. Gleason and J. J. Mc- 
Quade, of New York, who in 1901 were 
granted a franchise for an electric street 
railway in the city of Albuquerque, N. M., 
an enterprise which, however, was not car- 
ried out by them, although a company was 
organized and incorporated. In the fall of 
1502, associated with Mr. C. H. Shaw, Jr., 
he organized the Shaw-Eclipse Co., taking 
over the Eclipse Co.'s business, Mr. Kelly 
being elected secretary and treasurer. Mr. 
Kelly has since become the Central States 
representative of the Ajax Metal Co. He is 
a member of the Pittsburg Railway Club and 
of the Knights of Columbus. 

Kelly, Olaf M. (M.E., '97), was on the en- 
gineer's staff of the Williamsburg Bridge, 
New York, 1897-1904; and is now in the 
Department of Bridges of the City of New 
York. Mr. Kelly's graduating thesis, writ- 
ten with Mr. C. P. Hidden, on " Experiments 



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on the Disruptive Strength of Insulating 
Materials," was published in the Stevens In- 
stitute Indicator for April, 1898. 

Kemble, Edmund (M.E., '95), was with 
the Western Electric Co., New York, 1895- 
1900 ; assistant superintendent and, later, 
superintendent of the Electric Fireproofing 
Co., New York, 1900-02 ; and has since been 
with Mr. Charles J. Tagliabue, New York. 

Kennedy, Anthony (M.E., '91), was born 
in Wye Hall, Queen Anne's County, Md., 



sides several patents on the construction of 
vaults of armor plate, and a number of pat- 
ents on improvements in locks and locking 
apparatus. In 1898 he made a series of 
experiments for the Carnegie Steel Co. to de- 
termine the value of armor plate for vault- 
construction. He designed and patented the 
first round-door burglar-proof vault ever 
built. (An illustration of one of Mr. Ken- 
nedy's bank vaults is here shown. Its weight 
is 222.8 tons; that of the door 16 tons.) He 
was employed in the hull department of the 
New York Shipbuilding Co., in charge of 
standardization of small tools and pneumatic 
apparatus, 1900-01 ; and was the general 
manager of the L. H. Miller Safe & Iron 
Works, Baltimore, manufacturers of fire- 
and burglar-proof safes, bank vaults, etc., 
from 1901 to 1904. In January, 1903, he 




September 12, 1870. 
He was engaged in 
the motive-p o w e r 
department at the 
Mount Clare shops 
of the Baltimore & 
Ohio Railroad, test- 
ing materials at the 
various steel mills, 
superintending the 
construction of lo- 
comotives and cars, 
locomotive testing, 
experimental work, 
etc., 1891-93; and 
was chief engineer 



iURGLAR AND MOB PROOF VAULT (DoOR OpEN) 

Anthony Kennedy 



with the Hollar Lock Inspection & Guar- 
anty Co., engineers of bank-vault construc- 
tion, 1893-1900. He patented numerous in- 
ventions relating to this work, among them, 
two electric re-winding time-locks and an 
electrically actuated combination lock, be- 



was elected first vice-president and general 
manager of the above company, and had en- 
tire control of its business and operation 
up to the time of his entering business on 
his own account as consulting engineer, in 
Camden, N. J., in the summer of 1904. He 



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has made several addresses on " Vault- 
Construction " before bankers' conventions. 




Anthony Kenned'v 

He is a member of the Franklin Institute ; 
the American Society of Mechanical Engi- 
neers ; the Merchants' Club of Baltimore; 
and of the Beta Theta Pi fraternity. 

Mr. Kennedy is the son of Edmund Pen- 
dleton and Julia Chew (Paca) Kennedy. 
His father's family is of Scotch origin, being 
descended from Gilbert Kennedy, third Earl 
of Cassilis. His mother is of English and 
Italian descent. Both families have been in 
America since about 1600, and have taken 
prominent parts in the early history of the 
country, as signers of the Declaration, Col- 
onial Cabinet officers, etc. He married 
Katharine von Landerothe Conrad, June 18, 
1901, and they have two sons, Anthony and 
Joseph Conrad Kennedy. 

Kennedy, F. D. (M.E., '98), was in the 
meter department of the Edison Electric Il- 
luminating Co., New York, 1898; later en- 
gaged in experimental work and assisted 
Prof. Jacobus in the Department of Tests, 
Stevens Institute ; and is at present located 
in New York. 

Kennedy, John Pendleton (M.E., '96), was 
born in Wye Hall, Queen Anne's County, 
Md., March 21, 1873; son of Edmund Pen- 
dleton and Julia Chew (Paca) Kennedy. 



He was with the Illinois Steel Co., Chicago, 
111., 1896-97; and has been engaged on con- 
struction work with Humphreys & Glasgow, 
gas engineers, London, England, from 1897 
to date. He is a member of the Tau Beta Pi 
fraternity. 

Kent, Robert Thurston (M.E., '02), was 
born in Jersey City, N. J., July 17, 1880; son 
of William and Marion (Smith) Kent. He 
was educated in the public schools of Pas- 
saic, N. J. ; apprentice in the Cooke Locomo- 
tive Works, Paterson, N. J., 1896-97; and 
attended Stevens School one year (1897-98), 
before entering the Institute. He spent his 
college vacations in the draughting-room of 
the Robins Conveying Belt Co., New York, 
with whom also he was engaged in erection 
work, draughting, and testing, 1902-03; was 
draughtsman with the Link-Belt Engineer- 
ing Co., Philadelphia, 1903-04; and is now 
associate editor on the " Electrical Review," 
New York city. He is a junior member of 
the American Society of Mechanical Engi- 




R. T. Kent 

neers, and a member of the Delta Tau Delta 
fraternity. 

Kent, William (M.E., '76), was born in 
Philadelphia, Pa., March 5, 1851. He was 
educated in the public schools of Philadel- 
phia, and graduated from the Central High 
School in 1868 with the degree of Bachelor 
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He was clerk and bookkeeper in a coal- 
shipping house in Philadelphia, 1868-69, and 
in December of the latter year moved to 
Jersey City to become bookkeeper in the 
office of the Jersey City Gas Light Co. In 
1870 to 1872 he took the two higher classes 
in mathematics, engineering, etc., at the night 
school in Cooper Union, New York, gradu- 
ating with the Class of 1872. He was book- 
keeper (and for a few months storekeeper, 
and assistant on land and canal surveys) 
with Cooper, Hewitt, & Co., Ringwood Iron 
Works, N. J., 1872-75. In 1873-74 he took 
a special course in chemistry, under Dr. 
Albert Gallatin, at Cooper Union, New York, 
and at the same time was private tutor to 
Mr. A. S. Hewitt's eldest son, Peter Cooper 
Hewitt. He entered Stevens Institute in 
January, 1875, as special student in iron 
chemistry, and also took the work of the 
Junior class in engineering, mechanics, and 
French. He became a regular member of 
the Senior class in September, 1875, and 
graduated with the Class of 1876. 

In June, 1875, Mh Kent was made assist- 
ant to Prof. R. H. Thurston on the United 
States Board appointed to test iron and steel 
and other metals, and was put in charge of 
the research on metallic alloys. He contin- 
ued on this work, as far as time permitted, 
while he was a student, and afterward re- 
mained in charge of it until April, 1877, com- 
pleting the work on copper and tin, and 
copper and zinc alloys, and writing the re- 
port on it. 

He has had an extended experience in prac- 
tical work in various branches of engineering, 
as will be indicated by the following con- 
densed statement of his professional record: 
Draughtsman at the Pittsburg Car Wheel 
Works, and for Witherow, Shepard, & La- 
mond, blast-furnace engineers, Pittsburg, 
Pa., 1877; editor of the "American Manu- 
facturer and Iron World," Pittsburg, and 
correspondent of other engineering papers, 
1877-79; with Shoenberger & Co., iron and 
steel manufacturers, Pittsburg, 1879-82, being 
superintendent of the open-hearth steel de- 
partment, 1881-82. He resigned on account 
of ill health, and during May, June, and July, 
1882, visited iron and steel works in Eng- 
land, Scotland, and Belgium. Returning, he 
entered the employ of the Babcock & Wilcox 
Co., water-tube steam boiler manufacturers. 



being manager of the Pittsburg office, 1882- 
83, and superintendent of the sales depart- 
ment and engineer of tests, with office in 
New York, 1883-85. In 1882 he founded, 
with William F. Zimmermann (M.E., '76), 
the Pittsburg Testing Laboratory, his inter- 
est in which he sold to Messrs. Hunt & 
Clapp in 1886. He was secretary and 
general manager of the Springer Torsion 
Balance Co., Jersey City, N. J., 1885-90, de- 
veloping the invention of the torsion balance 




William Kent 

and building and equipping a factory for its 
manufacture. He practised as a consulting 
engineer in New York city 1890-1903; was 
general manager of the Passaic Art Casting 
Co., Passaic, N. J., 1893-94; and was asso- 
ciate editor of " Engineering News," New 
York, from 1895 to 1903. In May, 1903, he 
was appointed Professor of Mechanical En- 
gineering and Dean of the Lyman Cornelius 
Smith College of Applied Science in Syra- 
cuse University, and entered upon his duties 
there in September of the same year. 

In connection with his office practice as 
consulting engineer he has designed and in- 
stalled power plants, heating and ventilating 
apparatus, and other machinery; designed an 
ironworks erected in Brazil in 1892; made 
tests of fuels, boilers, engines, materials, and 
machines ; given advice and made reports on 
mechanical and metallurgical processes, in- 
ventions, and projects; and investigated 



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causes of accidents for lawyers in connection 
with damage suits. He has also been era- 
ployed as expert in a number of law cases, 
among which are the following: 

Page, Newell, & Co., vs. Collector of Port of 
Boston (United States Court), government ex- 
pert in tariff case, involving question, "What Is 
Steel?" 1881. 

Babcock & Wilcox Co. vs. Kidd (Superior 
Court of New York), steam boiler case, 1882. 

Hewitt vs. Pennsylvania Steel Co. (United 
States Court), patent infringement case involv- 
ing validity of the Martin patents on open- 
hearth steel process, metallurgical expert for 
defendants, 1883-84. 

Babcock & Wilcox Co. vs. Dushane (Court of 
Common Pleas of Baltimore), steam boiler case, 
1884. 

Kent vs. Pratt (in Patent Office), patent in- 
terference case, 1886. 

Dubois vs. Commissioner of Patents, lead trap 
case against the City of Worcester, 1889. 

Factor}' Owners on Blackstone River (Mass.) 
vs. City of Worcester, expert for owners in 
water-diversion case, 1898. 

Town of Blackstone vs. Blackstone Manu- 
facturing Co., expert for town in water-diversion 
case, 1900. 

Schlicht vs. .^olipyle Co., expert for defend- 
ants in infringement case, 1902. 

Several suits brought by Long Island farmers 
against the City of New York for alleged dam- 
ages done by Brooklyn pumping-stations in 
lowering the underground water on their farms, 
expert for the city, 1901. 

In 1892 he spent over two months in Bir- 
mingham, Ala., auditing the books of the 
Sloss Iron & Steel Co. In 1896 he made 
75 complete boiler tests at Aurora, 111., for 
the Babcock & Wilcox Co., to determine the 
relative value of several furnaces for burn- 
ing different varieties of bituminous coal. 
He was for one year a member of the New 
Jersey State Commission on Pollution of 
Streams. 

In 1890 Mr. Kent was elected to represent 
the Alumni Association on the Board of 
Trustees of the Stevens Institute of Tech- 
nology, and served until 1893. From 1888 
to 1895 he was lecturer on steam engineering 
at the Newark Technical School, delivering 
a course of ten lectures in each year. In 
1902 he delivered a course of six lectures on 
engineering subjects at Purdue University. 
He has also lectured at Brooklyn Institute; 
Franklin Institute, Philadelphia; Worcester 



Polytechnic Institute; Clarkson School of 
Technology, Potsdam, N. Y. ; University of 
West Virginia ; University of Illinois ; Cor- 
nell University ; and at Stevens Institute. 

Following is a list of Mr. Kent's contri- 
butions to the societies of which he is a 
member, and to the technical journals : 

"The Rapid Corrosion of Iron in Railway 
Bridges." Iron Age, May 27, 1875; Jour. 
Frank. Inst.^, June, 1875. 

' ' Project for the Erection of a Blast Furnace 
in Northern New Jersey" (graduating thesis, 
Stevens Institute, 1876). Eng. and Ad in. Jour.'', 
1876. 

"The Use of Red Charcoal in the Blast Fur- 
nace." Trans. Am. Inst. Min. Eng.^, VI, 207, 
1877. 

"Graphic Method of Keeping the Record of 
Working of a Blast Furnace." Ibid., VI, 551, 
1877. 

"An Apparatus for Testing the Resistance of 
Metals to Repeated Shocks." Ihid., VIII, 76, 
1879. 

"Some Curious Phenomena Observed in 
Making a Test of a Piece of Bessemer Steel." 
Ibid., VIII, 81, 1879. 

"An Autographic Transmission Dynamo 
meter." Ibid., VIII, 177, 1879. 

"The Wearing Power of Steel Rails." Ibid., 
IX, 554, 1880. 

"The Metric System." Trans. Eng. Soc. 
West. Pa.\ I, 1880. 

"Manganese Determinations in Steel." Trans. 
Am. Inst. Min. Eng., X, loi, 1881. 

"Evaporative Tests of Steam Boilers." 
Trans. Eng. Soc. West. Pa., 1883. 

"Evaporative Power of Bituminous Coals." 
Trans. A. S. M. E.\ IV, 249, 1883. 

"Evaporative Power of Anthracite Coal." 
Van Nostrand's Eng. Mag.\ 1884. 

"Rules for Conducting Boiler Tests." Trans. 
A. S. M. E., V, 260, 1884. 

"Watei'-Tube Boilers' at the Lucy Furnace." 
Trans. Am. Inst. Min. Eng., XIII, 45, 1884. 

"Proposed Apparatus for Determining the 
Heating Power of Different Fuels." Ibid., XIV, 
727, 1885. 

" Recent Failures of Steel Boiler Plates," 
Ibid.^XlY, 812, 1885. 

"Specific Gravity of Open-Hearth Steel" 
(prepared discussion of paper by another 
author). Ibid., XIV, 585, 1885. 



1 " Journal of the Franklin Institute." 

2 " Engineering and Mining Journal." 

3 " Transactions of the American Institute of Mining 
Engineers." 

■> " Transactions of the Engineers' Society of West- 
ern Pennsylvania." 

s " Transactions of the American Society of Me- 
chanical Engineers." 

•^ " Van Nostrand's Engineering Magazine." 



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"Table of Sizes of Chimneys." Trans. A. S. 
M. E., VI, 81, 1885. 

"Tables for Facilitating Calculation of Boiler 
Tests." Ibid., VI, 84, 1885. 

"Report of Committee on Standard Method 
of Steam Boiler Trials."^ ■ Ibid., VI, 256, 1885. 

"The Torsion Balance." Ibid., VI, 636, 1885. 

"Engineering as a Profession" (Presidential 
Address to the Akimni Association of the 
Stevens Institute of Technology). Van Nos- 
trand's Eng. Mag., August, 1885. 

' ' Proposal for an American Academy of Engi- 
neering." Ibid., October, 1886. 

"Classification of Iron and Steel." Railroad 
and Engineering Journal, April, 1887. 

"Is Water-Gas an Economical Fuel?"' Trans. 
A. S. M. E., VIII, 225, 1887. 

"A Problem in Profit-Sharing." Ibid., VIII, 
630, 1887. 

' ' The Futtire Water-Supply of Northern New 
Jersey" (read before the Citizens' Association of 
Passaic, N. J., January 12, 1888). Passaic 
Daily News, Janusiry, 1888. 

"Weighing-Machines." Jour. Frank. Inst., 
September, 1888. 

"The Iron Industry of the United States." 
Stevens Indicator, October, 1888. 

"The Heating Value of Coal." Mineral In- 
dustry, I, 97, i8go. 

"Tests of Recent Formulas for Chimney- 
Draught." Trans. A. S. M. E., XI, 984, 1890. 

"American Blast Furnaces" (prepared dis- 
cussion of paper by another author). Trans. 
Am. Inst. Min. Eng., XIX, 981, 1890. 

"Designing a Toggle-joint Press." A7neri- 
can Machinist, March 27, 1890. 

"Testing the Relative Value of Different 
Fuels." Eng. and Min. Jour., July 19, 1890. 

"A Thirty Years' Retrospect of the Iron 
Trade." Ibid., September 27, October 4, 
1890. 

"Gold and Silver Statistics." Mineral Re- 
sources of the United States, 1889—90. 

"Critical Review of Efficiency Tests of Coals." 
Eng. and Min. Jour., October 10, 17, 24, 31, 
1891. 

"Limits of the Battle Ship." Gassier s Mag., 
November, 1891. 

"Tests of Structural Wrought Iron and Steel " 
(prepared discussion of paper by another 
author). Trans. Am. Inst. Min. Eng., XX, 
700, i8gi. 

"Influence of the Steam-jackets of the Paw- 
tucket Pumping-Engine." Trans. A. S. M. E., 
XIII, 176, 1892. 

"The Efficiency of a Steam Boiler. What Is 
It?" Ibid., Xlli, 645, 1892. 

1 The committee consisted of William Kent, Chair- 
man, John C. Hoadley, R. H. Thurston, Charles E. 
Emery, and Charles T. Porter. Each of the members 
participated in the writing of the report. 



"Ropes Pass, Texas." Engineering Maga- 
zine, June, 1892. 

" The Ideal Preparatory School for Engi- 
neering Students." Cassier's Mag., August, 
1894. 

"The Relation of Engineering to Economics" 
(Vice-Presidential Address before Section D of 
the American Association for the Advancement 
of Science). Proc. Am. Assoc. Adv. Sci., XLIV, 
1895. 

"Some Preventable Wastes of Heat in the 
Generation and Use of Steam." Jour. Frank. 
Inst., December, 1895. 

"Coal Dust in Mine Explosions" (prepared 
discussion of paper by another author). Trans. 
Am. Inst. Min. Eng., XXIV, 913, 1895. 

"Industrial Education the Need of the 
Commonwealth" (address at the 39th Annual 
Commencement of the Michigan Agricultural 
College, August 14, 1896). Mich. Agric. Coll. 
Record, August 18, 1896. 

' ' Notes on the Proposed Removal of Sewage 
from the Passaic River" (presented to the New 
Jersey State Commission on the Pollution of 
Streams). Passaic Daily News, 1899. 

"Fuel and Its Economical Utilization." 
Mineral Industry, VIII, 1899. 

"The Manufacture of Iron and Steel" (a lec- 
ture delivered at Sibley College, Cornell Univer- 
sity). Sib. Jour. Eng.^, February, 1900. 

"Heat Resistance, the Reciprocal of Heat 
Conductivity." Trans. A. S. M. E., XXIV, 



1903. 

"University Education of Engineers. 
Jour. Eng., December, 1903. 



Sib. 



Mr. Kent also prepared a large number of 
discussions on papers by other authors in 
the societies of which he is a member. In 
1890 he was special agent of the U. S. 
Census as assistant to R. P. Rothwell, and 
had charge of the collection and compila- 
tion of the statistics of Gold and Silver for 
the Census Report. In 1891 he contributed 
300 pages to Appleton's " Cyclopedia of Me- 
chanics." He is the author of " The Me- 
chanical Engineer's Pocket-Book " (John 
Wiley & Sons, 1895). The compilation of 
this work occupied a large part of his 'time 
from 1891 to 1895. The book has been re- 
vised each year, and is now in its sixth edi- 
tion, over 30,000 copies having been sold. 
He is also the author of " Steam Boiler 
Economy" (John Wiley & Sons, 1901). 

Mr. Kent has taken out over twenty pat- 
ents for his inventions, including several 

1 " Sibley Journal of Engineering." 



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from 1885 to 1887 for water-tube boilers and 
for machinery for forming their special 
parts, which were purchased by the Babcock 
& Wilcox Co. In 1887 and 1888 he patented 
improvements in torsion balance scales and 
automatic weighing-machinery, the rights in 
which were assigned to the Springer Tor- 
sion Balance Co. He has also taken out two 
patents for smokeless furnaces for steam 
boilers, one in 1898 and another in 1901. 
The later furnace was tested in St. Louis, in 
January, 1902, by Mr. William H. Bryan, 
and according to the smoke scale used in St. 
Louis the smoke was reduced to 0.6 per cent, 
a practically perfect result. 

Mr. Kent is or has been a member of the 
following engineering societies, in which he 
has been very active upon committees, and 
a frequent contributor of papers on a variety 
of subjects, as shown above: The American 
Institute of Mining Engineers, 1876 to date 
(member of the board of managers, 1901- 
03) ; American Association for the Advance- 
ment of Science, 1877 to date (vice-president 
and chairman of Section D, 1895) ; Engi- 
neers' Society of Western Pennsylvania, 
1880-84 (treasurer, 1880-82) ; American 
Society of Mechanical Engineers, 1880 to 
date (manager, 1885-88; vice-president 
1889-90; chairman of committee on steam 
boiler trials, 1884-85; member of executive 
committee of European trip of joint socie- 
ties, 1889 ; of new committee on boiler trials, 
1896-99; and of committee to report on the 
metric system, 1903) ; American Society of 
Heating and Ventilating Engineers, 1898 to 
date (member of board of governors, 1901 ; 
vice-president, 1903) ; Society for Promo- 
tion of Engineering Education, 1894 to date; 
and of the Engineers' Club, 1889 to date. He 
is also a member of the Delta Tau Delta 
and Tau Beta Pi fraternities. 

Mr. Kent is the son of James and Janet 
(Scott) Kent. His father was a native of 
Bothwell, Scotland, where his ancestors had 
lived for many generations. He was a florist 
and landscape gardener, as were his fathers 
before him. His mother was the daughter of 
a schoolmaster in Annan, Scotland, who was 
an intimate friend of Thomas Carlyle. Mr. 
Kent married Marion Weild Smith, Febru- 
ary 25, 1879, and they have three children, 
Robert Thurston, Agnes Scott, and Edward 
Raylor Kent. 



Kenyon, Charles C. (M.E., '94), has been 
a member of the firm of R. D. Kenyon & 
Son, manufacturers of woolen machinery, 
Raritan, N. J., from 1894 to date. 

Kerr, Charles Volney (M.E., '88), was 
born in Miami County, O., March 27, 1861. 
He was brought up on an Illinois wheat 
farm, attending district school, high school, 
and college. He stood foremost in studies 
and showed an aptitude in mechanical mat- 
ters relating to farming. Previous to en- 
tering Stevens Institute he graduated, in 
1884, from the scientific course of the West- 




C. V. Kerr 

crn University of Pennsylvania with the de- 
gree of Bachelor of Philosophy. 

He was Teacher of Mathematics and Sci- 
ence at Pratt Institute, Brooklyn, 1888-89; 
Assistant Professor of Mechanical Engineer- 
ing at Western University of Pennsylvania, 
1890; Professor of Mechanical Engineering, 
and Superintendent of Mechanic Arts, at 
Arkansas Industrial University, Fayetteville, 
Ark., 1891-96; and Director of the Depart- 
ment of Mechanical Engineering at Armour 
Institute of Technology, Chicago, 111., 1896- 
1902. 

In the course of these changes he helped 
to plan the course of instruction for Pratt 
Institute; planned the course in mechanical 
engineering and equipped the shops for the 
Western University of Pennsylvania; or- 



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ganized the department of electrical engi- 
neering at Fayetteville, and rebuilt the 
shops and equipped the mechanical lab- 
oratory there; and built and equipped the 
shops of the mechanical department of the 
Branch Normal College, Pine Bluff, Ark., 
and organized the instruction. While at 
Armour Institute he developed the course in 
mechanical engineering, improved the equip- 
ment of the laboratories, and planned the ar- 
rangement and equipment of the new shop 
building. He also did some vi^ork as con- 
sulting engineer, especially making a series 
of tests to determine the relative merits of 
brass and roller bearings at various loads 
and speeds, and equipping a deep-well pump- 
ing-station for the village of Riverside, 111. 
He has also engaged in special investigations 
such as displacement curves for piston en- 
gines, parallel operation of alternators, the- 
ory and practice of superheated steam, 
development of Holly gravity return system, 
etc. He is now with the firm of Westing- 
house, Church, Kerr, & Co. 

Among the articles contributed by Prof. 
Kerr to technical papers perhaps the most 
important are those on " The Arkansas In- 



the following papers at meetings of the 
American Society of Mechanical Engineers: 




Shops of Armouk iNsnxuTE, Cfiicago, 111. 
C. V. Kerr 

"Theory of the Moment of Inertia," 1894; 
"Moment of Resistance," 1896; "Theory of 



the Moment of Inertia,' 




Deep-Well Pumping-Plant for Village of Riverside, III. 
C. V. Kerr 



dustrial University," Cassicr's Magazine, V, 
405; and " Fly- Wheel Arms," American 
Machinist, August 8, 1895. He has presented 



The Berthier 
Method of Coal 
Calorimetry," 1900 ; 
" Efficiency of a Gas 
Engine as Modified 
by Point of Igni- 
tion," 1901. 

Prof. Kerr lec- 
tured before the an- 
nual meeting of the 
Association of Gas 
and Gasoline En- 
gine Manufacturers 
in Chicago, Feb- 
ruary 15, 1890, on 
the subj ect, " The 
Development of the 
Gas-Engine." This 
lecture was widely 
published in the 
technical press. He 
also delivered a lec- 
ture in one of the 
regular courses at 
the Field Columbian 
Museum, on " Steam-Engine Development." 
He presented before the Western Railway 
Club, in 1900, a paper on " Bending Test of 



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an M. C. B. Arch Bar Truck." which was 
pubhshed in the Railway iMastcr Mechanic; 
and in 1902 he read a paper before the same 
association on " The Education of Railway 
Mechanical Engineers." He contributed an 
article on " Successful Compounding of Gas- 
Engines Improbable " to Modern Machinery 
in 1900. In 1894 he took out a patent on 
a boiler-setting. He is a member of the 
American Society of Mechanical Engi- 
neers; the New York Railroad Club; the 
Western Society of Engineers ; and of the 
Society for the Promotion of Engineering 
Education. 

Prof. Kerr is the son of George W. and 
Nancy Kerr. He married Libbie Applebee, 
December 25, 1888, and they have four chil- 
dren, Vida A., Delia A., Volney A., and 
Marion A. Kerr. 

Ketchum, Samuel (M.E., '02), was born 
in.Montclair, N. J., November 14, 1879. He 
was engaged in the engineering and con- 
struction department of the Chase Rolling 
Mill Co., Waterbury, Conn., in 1902, mainly 
on work in connection with the brass 
furnace and concrete work of a new casting- 
shop. Since 1903 he has been employed in 




.Samuel Ketchum 



Mr. Ketchum is the son of William H. and 
Ella (Gowan) Ketchum. He married Cor- 
nelia C. Stevens, of Montclair, N. J., Janu- 
ary 7, 1904. 

Kidd, George F. (M.E., '98), was born in 
Boston, Mass., in 1874; son of James B. 




the machine shop of the W. D. Forbes Co., 
Hoboken, N. J. He is a member of the 
Sigma Nu fraternity and of the Tau Beta 
Pi association. 



G. F. Kidd 

and Annie (Bramble) Kidd, and of Scotch 
and English descent. By reason of excep- 
tionally high standing throughout the course, 
he was honorably graduated without exam- 
ination from the Newark, N. J., public high 
school. He undertook to pay his own way 
through the Institute, but suffered financial 
reverses when half way through, and became 
a beneficiary of the Vreeland Fund, in order 
to finish the course. He was engaged as 
electrician in the incandescent department 
of the Mount Morris Electric Light Co., New 
York, at intervals between 1892 and 1898; 
was electrician in the equipment depart- 
men of the Brooklyn Navy Yard, 1898-99; 
in the testing-department of the General 
Electric Co., Schenectady, N. Y., 1899-1902; 
in the electrical department of the Bristol 
Co., Waterbury, Conn., 1902-03; and has 
been mechanical engineer with the Western 
Engineering & Construction Co., San Fran- 
cisco, from 1903 to date. 

Kidde, Walter (M.E., '97), was born in 
Hoboken, N. J., March 7, 1877. He was 



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constructor with Burhorn & Granger, con- 
tracting engineers, New York, 1897-1900, 
making a study of electricity and power- 
transmission as applied to factories; and has 
practised as engineer and contractor. New 




Walter Kidde 

York, from 1900 to date. His first inde- 
pendent work was the erection of a factory 
for the manufacture of a special roofing 
paper, the design of the machinery and sys- 
tem of operation being original. This fac- 
tory plant is the first of its kind in which 
the paper is so treated as to get the desired 
result in one continuous operation; whereby 
both output and efiiciency have been greatly 
increased over old methods, marking a dis- 
tinct advance in this line of manufacture. 
Alternating current transmission of power 
is used throughout the works, and the con- 
trol of the motor speeds has contributed to 
the successful operation of the plant. Since 
the completion of this work Mr. Kidde has 
had charge of change-over to electric trans- 
mission and motor system of several mills 
in and about New York and in New Jersey. 
Mr. Kidde is the son of F. E. and Mary 
(Oberdoerfer) Kidde. His father came to 
this country from Dresden, Saxony, in the 
early 'sixties. His mother was a resident of 
West Virginia. He received his early train- 
ing in German- American private schools. He 
married Louise Carter, daughter of Rev. 
F. B. Carter, Montclair, N. J., October 22, 



1902, and they have one son, Walter Law- 
rence Kidde. 

Kiernan, Eugene H. (M.E., '87), was with 
Waterbury & Co., Brooklyn, N. Y., 1887-90; 
vice-principal of the high school at Hoboken, 
N. J., 1891-93 ; and principal of a public 
school at Hoboken, 1 893-1902, since which 
time he has been located in Hoboken. 

King, Harry De Golier (M.E., '92), was 
born in Joliet, 111., July 26, 1870. He was 
with the King Engineering Co., New York, 
1892-94; mechanical engineer and draughts- 
man with Bromell, Schmidt, & Co., York, 
Pa., 1894-95; supervisor of the North Jersey 
Street Railway Co., 1895-96; general man- 
ager and superintendent of the Middletown 
Light & Power Co., Middletown, N. Y., 1897; 
with the People's Light & Power Co., New- 
ark, N. J., 1897-1900; and has been super- 
intendent of the Hoboken Division of the 
United Electric Company of New Jersey, 
Hoboken, N. J., from 1900 to date. With 
reference to this latter position the " Street 
Railway Journal " of March 23, 1901, states: 

"This station has been recently overhauled, 
and practically re-equipped with both railway 
and lighting apparatus. The change from a 
belted plant containing engines and generators 
of various types and capacities to modern 
direct-connected units, embodying the latest 
improvements in engineering practice, was 
accomplished without shutting down on any 
circuit. All the work was done under the 
direction of H. D. King, Superintendent of the 
Hoboken Division." 

The United Electric Company was absorbed 
by the Public Service Corporation of New 
Jersey in 1903, since which time Mr. King 
has been superintendent of the electrical de- 
partment of the Hoboken division of that 
corporation, including all power houses and 
sub-stations of the old Jersey City, Hoboken, 
& Paterson Street Railway Co., in addition 
to the Hoboken station. 

Mr. King is the son of Edwin C. and Ella 
T. (De Golier) King. He married Beth 
Lothrop Tower, October 7, 1896, and they 
have one child, Dorothy De Golier King. 

King, William Roberts (M.E., '86), was 
born in New York city in 1864. He held a 
clerical position in, and later became assist- 



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ant superintendent of, the works of R. Hoe 
& Co., manufacturers of printing-machinery, 
New York, 1886-90; and in the latter year 
he took charge of the mines of the Florida 
Rock Phosphate Co., Florida, in the capacity 
of engineer, later hecoming general manager 




W. R. King 

and engineer. When the company was sub- 
sequently merged in the Empire State Phos- 
phate Co., a New York corporation which 
did business in Marion and Citrus counties, 
Fla., Mr. King continued in the same posi- 
tion with the new company and successfully 
carried on the exploitation and development 
of its extensive mining properties and the 
designing and establishment of the mining 
plant. He next became chief engineer with 
the Illinois Phosphate Co., Marion, Hernan- 
do, Citrus, and Levy counties, Fla., where 
he remained from 1894 to 1895, completely 
reorganizing the mining plant, as well as 
developing and establishing new and im- 
proved methods of handling and treating the 
ores. As a consulting and contracting me- 
chanical engineer. New York, 1895-98, he 
made and developed several improvements 
in the brewing industry; made extensive in- 
vestigations of artificial processes for the 
manufacture of malto-dextrin, etc., and en- 
tered the field of research surrounding the 
then new illuminating agent, calcium car- 
bide and acetylene gas. After an exhaust- 
ive series of experiments he succeeded in 



devising an entirely new system of electric 
furnaces for the manufacture of calcium 
carbide and the reduction of highly refrac- 
tory compounds. A number of patents, in 
this and foreign countries, were granted him 
on his inventions, which are now the prop- 
erty of, and form the basis of, the Calcium 
Carbide Co., of New York. At the beginning 
of 1898 he gave up his professional practice 
to become superintendent of construction 
and engineer of the Oxnard Construction 
Co., New York, constructors and builders of 
beet-sugar houses and refineries; and while 
in their employ he erected for the American 
Beet Sugar Co., Ventura County, Cal., a 
beet-sugar plant of 2,000 tons daily capacity, 
and at Rocky Ford, Colo., a 1,200-ton plant. 
Fie also erected a 1,000-ton plant for the 
Standard Beet Sugar Co., at Ames, Neb. In 
the spring of 1901 he again resumed his 
private practice and is now located in New 
York. 

Besides the patents for the manufacture of 
calcium carbide, etc., mentioned above, he 
took out one for an acetylene-gas generator, 
also the property of the above company, and 
one for an improved triple valve for auto- 
matic air brakes. He is a member of the 
American Society of Mechanical Engineers, 
and of the Society of Chemical Industry. 

Mr. King is the son of John W. and Anna 
M. (Clark) King, descended from New Eng- 
land stock tracing back to 1646. He married 
Linzee D. Watson in 1889, and they have 
one child. 

Kingsford, Russell Thomas (M.E., '96), 
was born in Jersey City, N. J., February 12, 
1875, son of Albert H. and Clara A. (Al- 
dridge) Kingsford, both of English parent- 
age. He was draughtsman in the Rushmore 
Dynamo Works, Jersey City, 1896-97. While 
there he designed a complete line of multi- 
polar dynamos and motors of both belted and 
direct-connected types, and made many im- 
provements in the search-lights and mirror- 
lens projectors made at the works. In April, 
1897, he entered the employ of the American 
Impulse Wheel Co., New York, as assistant 
to the consulting engineer, at the same time 
acting as consulting engineer for the Rush- 
more Dynamo Works. In September, 1897, 
he became chief engineer of the latter works, 
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the new " multi-voltage " dynamos. The arc 
dynamo suppHes any number of separate and 
parallel circuits of arc lamps, being the only 
one of the so-called multi-circuit arc ma- 
chines in which the circuits are not really 
in series. The multi-voltage dynamo does 
away with the troublesome and expensive 
" booster," as feeder-circuits can be taken at 
higher potential from the same dynamo. In 
1898 he again entered the engineering de- 
partment of the American Impulse Wheel 
Co., and during the Spanish-American War 
he had charge of the draughting-room of the 
Rushyiore Dynamo Works, which were so 
crowded with government work that his 
health was considerably impaired. In 1899 
he designed for these works the largest dy- 
namo for D. C. arc lighting that had ever 




R. T. KiNGSFORD 

been built, carrying two parallel and inde- 
pendently regulated series circuits of 150 
lights each. In 1900 his health was so poor 
that he was compelled to give up work and 
spend a year in the Adirondacks. In April, 
1901, he went with the New York Safety 
Steam Power Co., New York, as chief en- 
gineer and engine-designer, but after a few 
months he returned to the Adirondacks. 

For technical journals Mr. Kingsford, in 
conjunction with Mr. W. H. MacGregor 
(M.E., '96), has written the following arti- 
cles: "Test of an Otis Electric Elevator 
with Leonard Motor Control System/' Elec- 



trical Engineer, 1896; "Method of Deter- 
mining the Indicated Horse-Power of an En- 
gine under Varying Load," Power, 1896, — 
both extracts from the graduating thesis of 
Messrs. Kingsford and MacGregor. Mr. 
Kingsford has also written " A Complete 
Theory of Impulse Water Wheels and Its 
Application to Their Design," Engineering 
Nezus, July, 1898. 

Kingsland, Charles S. (M.E., '79), was em- 
ployed at the Kingsland Paper Mills, Frank- 
lin, N. J., for several years, and was then 
obliged to abandon his work owing to ill 
health. He is now located at Nutley, N. J. 

Kingsland, Joseph (M.E., '76), has, since 
graduation, been in the employ of the Yan- 
tacaw Ice Co. and the Kingsland Paper Mills ; 
was mining engineer for a company at Bat- 
apolis, Mex., 1880-83; and was with the 
Kingsland Paper Co., 1885-93, becoming en- 
gineer in 1890, and president in 1893. For 
a number of years Mr. Kingsland was in poor 
health, which he overcame by avoiding ac- 
tive business duties and spending several 
years in California. He is now located at 
Nutley, N. J. 

Kirby, Chapman M. (M.E., '99), was born 
in Jamaica, Long Island, N. Y., July i, 
1877. He was draughtsman with Post & 
McCord, engineers in structural iron work, 
Brooklyn, N. Y., 1899-1900; with the Loco- 
mobile Co., Newton, Mass., 1900; the Stan- 
ley Manufacturing Co., Lawrence, Mass., 
1901 ; at the works of the Kansas City (Mo.) 
Gas Co., 1901-03 ; and has been at the North- 
ern Liberties Gas Works, Philadelphia, Pa., 
from 1903 to date. He is a member of the 
Chi Phi fraternity. 

Kirkland, William A. (M.E., '97), has 
been employed since graduation in the United 
States Navy Yard, Mare Island, Cal., as 
ship draughtsman in the Construction and 
Repair Department, until 1899, when he was 
appointed chief draughtsman in the Depart- 
ment of Ordnance, a position he still holds. 

Kirsten, George Emil Adolph (M.E., '00), 
was born in Hoboken, N. J., September 29, 
1879; son of Emil and Gesine (Heinz) Kir- 
sten. After four months' experience as 



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draughtsman in the Newburgh steel works 
department of the American Steel & Wire 
Co., Cleveland, O., in 1900, he was trans- 
ferred to the master mechanic's staff, in which 




G. E. A. KiRSTEN 

he rose to the position of assistant master 
mechanic of the Newburgh wire mill of the 
same company, a branch employing 1,000 
men. In June, 1902, he became inspector in 
the Middle States Inspection Bureau, New 
York city. He is a member of the German 
Club, Hoboken, N. J., and of the Sigma Nu 
fraternity. 

Kissam, W. W. (M.E., '90), was employed 
in the South Chicago Iron Works, South 
Chicago, 111., 1890-94, and with the West- 
inghouse Electric & Manufacturing Co., 
Pittsburg, Pa., 1894-95. His present loca- 
tion is unknown. 

Kletzsch, Alvin Paul (M.E., '84), was 
born in Newburg, Wis., August 21, 1861 ; 
son of Charles F. and Ernestine M. Kletzsch, 
who were both born near Dresden, Saxony, 
and emigrated to this country in 1853. After 
graduating from the Milwaukee high school 
in 1877, Alvin took a course of drawing with 
a leading architect of Milwaukee for the 
purpose of studying architecture, but, being 
fond of mathematics, was induced to take 
the engineering course at Stevens and ma- 
triculated at that Institution in 1880. He 



was in charge of the Mechanical Laboratory 
at Stevens Institute, under the directorship 
of Prof. Thurston, until July, 1885. He re- 
signed in order to give assistance to his 
father in the management of the " Republi- 
can House " at Milwaukee, Wis. In 1889 he 
formed the Charles F. Kletzsch Co., and has 
managed the hotel for the corporation since 
that time. In 1897 he was elected to the 
presidency of the Wisconsin State Semi- 
centennial Celebration, and in 1898 and 1899 
was president of the Milwaukee Carnival 
Association, an outgrowth of the Celebra- 
tion society, which had for its object the 
advancement of the interests of the city of 
Milwaukee. He has also, since 1898, been 
secretary of the Badger Oil Co., operating in 
Hancock County, O., for oil and gas, and 
since 1902 has been secretary of the Septi- 
cide Co., of Chicago, 111., a concern organized 
for the purpose of treating tuberculous pa- 
tients by means of ozone passed through 
essential oils. He has been president of the 
Citizens' Business League of Milwaukee 
since 1902. He is a member of the Univer- 
sity, Deutscher, Calumet, and Milwaukee 
Country clubs ; Lafayette Lodge of Free and 




A. P. Kletzsch 

Accepted Masons ; Ivanhoe Commandery No. 
24, of which he was eminent commander in 
1900; of the Wisconsin Consistory; and of 
the Benevolent and Protective Order of 
Elks. 



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Klumpp, John Bartleman (M.E., '94), was 
born in Jersey City, N. J., June 2, 1871. He 
has been with the United Gas Improvement 
Co., Philadelphia, from 1894 to date. Until 
1899 he was assistant engineer in the general 
superintendent's department. He was then 
advanced to the position of executive clerk 
to the company, and in 1901 was appointed 
superintendent of the Omaha Gas Co., Oma- 
ha, Neb. In 1902 he was made assistant 
inspecting engineer, and in 1904 inspecting 
engineer, of the United Gas Improvement 
Co. at Philadelphia, where he is now located. 
He is a member of the American Gas Light 
Association ; the American Institute of Elec- 
trical Engineers ; the National Electric Light 
Association ; the University Club of Phila- 
delphia ; the Germantown Cricket Club ; the 
Jersey City Club ; and of the Beta Theta Pi 
fraternity. 

Mr. Klumpp is the son of John Frederick 
and Ellen (Bartleman) Klumpp. His 
father's parents came from Stuttgart, Ger- 
many, in 1831 ; his mother's were of English 
descent and lived in Augusta, Ga. He mar- 
ried Theodora E. Meyer, May 12, 1896. 

Knapp, Edwin R. (M.E., '97), Assistant 
Professor of Mechanical Drawing at Ste- 
vens Institute of Technology. For biog- 
raphy, see page 276. 

Knapp, Isaac Newton, '75 (M.E., '01), was 
born in Greenwich, Conn., June 6, 1851. At 
the age of 13 he went as cabin-boy on a 
voyage to Santiago, Cuba. At the ages of 
17 and 18 he went to England and the West 
Indies as ordinary seaman. He learned the 
machinist's trade, and entered Cornell Uni- 
versity with the Class of 1875 ; then entered 
Stevens Institute in January, 1873, with the 
Class of 1875, but left college at the end of 
the Junior year to install an outfit of Wood's 
rock-drills and an air-compressor in Plumas 
County, Cal., where he ran a small tunnel. 
He remained on the Pacific Slope until 1883, 
working at tunnelling, shaft-work, hydraulic 
mining, and general mining work in various 
capacities, from British Columbia to Mexico. 

In 1885 he became a member of the firm 
of Denton, Breuchaud, & Co., contractors on 
the new Croton Aqueduct, New York, 1885- 
86; next was constructing engineer with the 
United Gas Improvement Co. and other gas 



companies, also acting as expert on gas- 
holder-tank masonry, 1887-92; assistant su- 
perintendent of the Omaha Gas Manufac- 
turing Co., 1892-97; and superintendent of 




I. N. Knapp 

the Omaha Gas Co., 1897-1901. Since 1899 
he has spent part of his time prospecting for 
and developing a production of petroleum 
in southeastern Kansas, where he became a 
successful oil-producer 1899-1902. He was 
assigned to the task of making a valuation of 
the gas plant of the Peoria Gas & Electric 
Co., Peoria, in their suit in the United States 
District Court against the city of Peoria, 
1901. In 1902 he was appointed engineer 
for special work in the general superintend- 
ent's department of the United Gas Improve- 
ment Co., Philadelphia, Pa. 

In December, 1901, the Stevens Institute 
conferred upon Mr. Knapp the full degree 
of Mechanical Engineer. He read a paper 
on " Notes on Cement Masonry " before the 
30th Annual Meeting of the American Gas 
Light Association in October, 1902, in New 
York. This paper was printed in the Stc- 
vcns Indicator for January, 1903. He is a 
member of the American Gas Light Associa- 
tion, the Western Gas Association, and the 
American Institute of Mining Engineers. 

Mr. Knapp is the son of Isaac and Theo- 
dosia (Mead) Knapp. He is descended 
from Nicholas Knap, who came from Sussex, 
England, and settled in Watertown, Mass., 



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in 1630. His third son, Joshua, settled in 
Stamford, Conn., and afterward moved to 
Greenwich. John Mead 2d settled in Green- 
wich, Conn., in 1660. The Mead and Knap 
families, (afterward Knapp) were among 
the pioneers of the town of Greenwich and 
acquired title to lands direct from the In- 
dians. The mother of the subject of this 
sketch was of English origin. Mr. Knapp 
married S. Anna Dickinson, December 5, 
1883, and they have five children, Arthur, 
Bessie, Walter, Ralpli, and Paul Knapp. 

Knox, Samuel Lippincott Griswold (M.E., 
'91), was born in New York city in 1870. 
He was employed at the Camden Iron Works, 
Camden, N. J., 1891-94; successively as 
draughtsman ; engineer in charge of the erec- 
tion of a large gas-holder, Cleveland, O. ; 
and in charge of the designing of hydraulic 
travelling cranes at the works in Camden. 
One of the cranes designed by him was ex- 
hibited in practical operation at the World's 
Fair, Chicago. While on this work he de- 
signed a three-cylinder hydraulic motor 
working under 1,500 pounds pressure per 
square inch. Several years later he designed 
another motor to work under 3,000 pounds 
pressure, which also gave entire satisfaction 
in practice. He was Senior Instructor in 
Mechanical Engineering at Lehigh Univer- 
sity, 1894-96; with the Crocker- Wheeler 
Electric Co., 1896-98, first as chief draughts- 
man, and later as first assistant engineer and 
in charge of starting a cost system and other 
work of an executive nature ; engaged in re- 
organization of shops of the Bethlehem 
Steel Co., 1898; mechanical engineer with 
the Stilwell-Bierce and Smith-Vail Co., hav- 
ing charge of the design of turbines, air- 
compressors, and general engineering work, 
1899-1900; engineer in charge of the 
draughting department, and chairman of the 
committee on mechanical design, of the Gen- 
eral Electric Co., at the Schenectady works, 
1900-1902. At these works he had charge of 
the largest draughting department in the 
world, employing 250 draughtsmen. In 1902 
he became manager and chief engineer of the 
Bucyrus Co., South Milwaukee, Wis., build- 
ers of dredges, steam shovels, wrecking- 
cranes, etc. He is a member of the Amer- 
ican Society of Mechanical Engineers; the 
University, Country, and Town clubs, of 



Milwaukee; and of the Kappa Alpha frater- 
nity ; also an associate member of the Amer- 
ican Institute of Electrical Engineers. 

Mr. Knox is the son of Andrew and 
Annabella Grace (Douglas) Knox, both of 
Scotch descent. He married Edith Somer- 
ville Rulison, September 16, 1897, '^fcl they 
have two children. Nelson Rulison and Alex- 
ander Douglas Knox. 

Koch, Frank Alexander (M.E., '97), was 
born in New York city September 7, 1874; 
son of Frank and Isabella Koch. He gradu- 
ated from the New York public schools, took 
a course in bookkeeping and banking in 
Packard's Business College, and was an ap- 
prentice for two years in a machine-shop 
and electrical manufacturing business. He 
attended the Stevens Preparatory School 
two years before entering the Institute. He 
has been mechanical engineer for the De- 
partment of Parks, New York, from 1898 to 
date, his duties consisting in testing all ce- 
ments, iron, and other material used in park 
work; inspection of sewer work and the 
laying of water-pipe for irrigation purposes ; 
inspection and repairing of walks and road- 
way pavements under Park jurisdiction in 
tlie boroughs of Manhattan and Richmond ; 
and field-survey work. He was employed 
for two seasons by the City of New York to 
organize life-saving stations in and around 
New York. He is commodore of the New 
York Volunteer Life-Saving Corps, and a 
member of the Waverley Boat Club and of 
the Municipal Engineers of the City of New 
York. 

Koezly, Theodore F. (M.E., '75), was em- 
ployed by Prof. R. H. Thurston to keep the 
record-books and accounts of the Mechani- 
cal Laboratory, Stevens Institute, 1875-78; 
and was with the steam-heating firm of Gil- 
lis & Geoghegan, New York, 1878-85. 
Under his superintendence the heating and 
ventilating plants of some of the largest 
buildings in New York at that time were 
erected. In 1885 he became seriously ill and 
was incapacitated for work. When his 
health was partly restored he entered upon a 
short engagement on the new Croton Aque- 
duct, New York, and then went abroad. 
Upon his return he was employed in the De- 
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until November, 1889, when he took a position 
in the steam-heating department of the Super- 
vising Architect's Bureau, Washington, D. C. 
While thus engaged he contracted pneu- 
monia, from which he died May 20, 1890. 

Kollstede, A. G. (M.E., '94), has been 
manager of the Champion Extractor Co., 
New York; general manager, secretary, and 
treasurer of the Long Island Agricultural 
Chemical Co., Long Island City, N. Y. ; and 
has lately been located in New York. 

Kollstede, George (M.E., '96), entered the 
employ of the Long Island Agricultural 
Chemical Co., Long Island City, N. Y., as 
chemist. During the war with Spain Mr. 
Kollstede was a gunner's mate on the 
U.S.S. " Yankee" and was engaged in the 
bombardment of Santiago. In 1898 he re- 
turned to the Institute for a special course in 
chemistry under Dr. Stillman, and then re- 
sumed his professional duties with the Long 
Island Agricultural Chemical Co. In 1900 
he was advanced to the position of superin- 
tendent of the company, which position he 
held until 1903. He then located at Provi- 
dence, R. I. 

Kopp, Henry (M.E., '93), has been em- 
ployed by the American Sugar Refining Co., 
Brooklyn, N. Y., since graduation. 

Kornemann, Henry A., Jr. (M.E., '99), 
was in the employ of the American Motor 
Co., New York, 1899; with the New York 
Air Compressor Co., Arlington, N. J., 1899- 
1900, and the Franklin Air Compressor Co., 
Franklin, Pa., 1900-01 ; and has been in the 
patent department of the Singer Manufac- 
turing Co., Elizabeth, N. J., from 1901 to 
date. 

Kreischer, John B. (M.E., '96), was con- 
nected with B. Kreischer & Sons^ manufac- 
turers of fire-brick, front-brick, and terra- 
cotta, Kreischerville, Staten Island, N. Y., 
1896-1901. He then studied law at the New 
York Law School and was graduated in 
1903, since which time he has practised law 
in New York. 

Kuper, George H. (M.E., '00), was in- 
spector with the National Conduit & Cable 



Co., New York, 1901. During the months of 
November and December, 1901, he filled the 
temporary vacancy caused by the illness of 
Mr. C. O. Gunther, Instructor in Mathemat- 
ics at Stevens Institute. He has been 
draughtsman with the Geo. A. Fuller Co., 
New York, from 1902 to date. He is a mem- 
ber of the Tau Beta Pi fraternity. 

Kursheedt, Roland Simeon (M.E., '80), 
was born in New York city February 24, 
i860; son of Asher and Abigail (Judah) 
Kursheedt. He was employed in the Morgan 
Iron Works, New York, 1880-81 ; and has 
been connected with the Kursheedt Manu- 
facturing Co., New York, in managerial 
positions, from 1881 to date. 

Ladd, James Beach (M.E., '81), was born 
in Throgg's Neck, N. Y., June 27, i860. He 




was in the employ of the Southwark Foun- 
dry & Machine Co., Philadelphia, 1881-86; 
for five years as draughtsman and designer, 
and one year as assistant engineer in charge 
of draughting-room and all engineering 
work. During this time he designed Porter- 
Allen engines, blowing-engines, heavy roll- 
ing-mill reversing-engines, pumps, etc., all 
of which were built at the company's shops, 
and also a great variety of rolling-mill, fur- 
nace, and steel works. He also attended to a 
considerable portion of the outside engineer- 



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ing, estimating, etc. From 1887 to 1891 he 
was with the Pennsylvania Steel Co., being 
chief engineer of the Maryland extension of 
their works, which are now owned by the 
Maryland Steel Co. Two years and a half 
of this period was spent in designing at 
Steelton, Pa., and the remainder at Spar- 
row's Point, Md., in charge of construction. 
During this time he designed and erected 
four complete blast-furnaces, of 300 tons 
daily capacity each, together with blowing- 
engines, buildings, dnd all accessories. He 
also designed and erected a machine shop, 
foundry, etc., and erected a Bessemer-steel 
plant and rail-mill. From 1891 to 1898 he 
was engaged with the Robert Poole & Son 
Co., Baltimore, as chief engineer, designing 
special machinery, developing shop methods, 
etc., but in the latter year he was forced by 
ill health to take a much-needed rest. In 
1900 he again entered the field of engineer- 
ing in his present capacity as consulting 
engineer at Philadelphia, Pa. He is a mem- 
ber of the American Society of Mechanical 
Engineers, and of the Delta Tau Delta fra- 
ternity. 

Mr. Ladd is the son of William W. and 
Sarah H. Ladd. He married Rebecca Ser- 
rill, October 29, 1889, ^"^1 they have one 
child, Frances Serrill Ladd. 




He received the free scholarship from Ho- 
boken (N. J.) high school, of which later 
he was vice-principal. He was superintend- 
ent of the trades school at Elmira, N. Y. ; 
machinist at the Delaware, Lackawanna, & 
Western Railroad shops, Kingsland, N. J.; 
assistant postmaster at Hoboken, N. J. ; 
storekeeper and assistant superintendent at 
the Hudson County Electric Light Plant at 
Snake Hill, N. J. Until recently he was a 
member of a firm of electrical engineering 
contractors, Hoboken, N. J., but is now 
doing business under his own name. He is 
a member of the National Association of 
Stationary Engineers. 

Mr. La Pointe is the son of Charles and 
Mary (McCarthy) La Pointe. He married 
Sarah E. Belanger, September 10, 1890, and 
they have two children, Justine Belanger 
and Frank Belanger La Pointe. 

Law, Frank Everard (M.E., '92), was born 
in Brooklyn, N. Y., October 25, 1869; son 




F. A. La PoixNte 

La Pointe, Frank Augustine (M.E., '86), 
was born in Oswego, N. Y., April 9, 1864. 



of J. Adams and Mary J. (Burroughs) Law. 
He attended the public schools in Brook- 
lyn, N. Y., and East Orange, N. J., and 
Stevens Preparatory School, Hoboken, N. J. 
He was in the machine-shops of W. D. 
Forbes & Co., Hoboken, N. J., 1892; and 
has been with the Fidelity & Casualty Co.. 
New York, from 1893 to date, occupying 
successively the following positions : assist- 



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463 



ant superintendent of inspection department; 
assistant in liability and steam-boiler depart- 
ment; acting superintendent of liability 
department; assistant superintendent of 
steam-boiler and elevator department; act- 
uary of liability lines, and second assistant 
secretary of the company, which latter posi- 
tion he now holds. During his connection 
with this company he has contributed largely 
to the development of the actuarial side of 
liability insurance, thus putting it on a scien- 
tific basis, and has originated fly-wheel in- 
surance. 

Lawrence, Frank Vinton (M.E., '95), 
was born in London, England, in 1874. He 




F. V. Lawkence 

was in the employ of the , Pope Manufac- 
turing Co., makers of Columbia bicycles, 
Hartford, Conn., 1895-98, as designer of spe- 
cial machinery, rising to next in rank to the 
chief draughtsman ; designer and draughts- 
man at the Henry R. Worthington Hydraulic 
Works, Brooklyn, N. Y., 1898-99; and chief 
draughtsman and assistant engineer with 
the Ransome Concrete Co., New York, 1899- 
1901, during which time the Mineola (L. I.) 
court house was designed and built under 
the Ransome system of reinforced concrete 
construction, in which all the foundations, 
walls, floors, roof, and dome are a combina- 
tion of concrete and square steel bars 
twisted, the steel bars being introduced 



wherever the concrete is subjected to ten- 
sional stresses. He was engineer with the 
Ransome Construction Co., Philadelphia, 
1901-02 ; and is now engineer with the Ran- 
some Companies, New York, designing and 
supervising the construction of reinforced 
concrete structures, a specialty being made 
of factory buildings. Notable among these 
is that for the United Shoe Machinery Co. 
at Beverly, Mass. He is a member of the 
Chi Psi fraternity. 

Mr. Lawrence is the son of R. B. and 
Susan (Freeman) Lawrence, and his ances- 
try dates back to the early English settle- 
ment of this country. He married Margaret 
Ransome, October 25, 1902. 

Lawrence, Wilder F. (M.E., '90), was 
with the Natural Gas Fuel Co., Philadelphia, 
Pa., 1890-91 ; engineer with the Derby Gas 
Co., Derby, Conn., 1891-98; superintendent 
of the Trenton Gas Co., Trenton, N. J., 1898- 
99, during which period he entirely remod- 
elled the works ; engineer with the New York 
& Queens Gas & Electric Co., Flushing, 
N. Y., 1899-1901 ; and has been superintend- 
ent of the Ravenswood works of the New 
Amsterdam Gas Co., Ravenswood, Long 
Island, N. Y., from 1902 to date. He is a 
member of the American Gas Light Associa- 
tion, and of the New England Association of 
Gas Engineers. 

Lawton, Henry Douglas (M.E., '94), was 
born in Havana, Cuba, August 17, 1872; son 
of Benjamin Evans and Sarah Douglas 
(Green) Lawton (both Americans). He 
was in the employ of Uehling, Stein- 
bart, & Co., manufacturers of pyrometers, 
1894-95, and with Ludlow & Valentine, 
architects, New York, 1895-99. He became 
a student in architecture under Mr. John G. 
Howard, preparatory to a trial for entrance 
to the " Ecole des Beaux Arts " in Paris 
1899. He went to Paris with the intention 
of remaining for three years, but was 
obliged to give up his plans. Returning to 
New York, he was in the employ of Law- 
ton, Flint, & Co., stock-brokers, New York, 
in 1900; and has been with F. S. Mosely & 
Co., note-brokers. New York, Boston, and 
Chicago, from 1901 to date. He is now en- 
gaged with the New York house. He is a 
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of the National Guard of the State of 
New York, and of the DeUa Tau Delta 
fraternity. 

Layat, Felix (M.E., '01), was Instructor 
during the Supplementary Term at Stevens 
Institute, 1901 ; engaged at the Deane Lin- 
seed Oil Works, Port Richmond, N. Y., 1901 ; 
with the American Sugar Refining Co., Jer- 
sey City, 1901-04; and since November, 
1904, has been in the draughting room of the 
Campbell Printing Press Manufacturing Co., 
Taunton, Mass. He is a member of the 
Beta Theta Pi and Tau Beta Pi fraternities. 

Leavitt, Frank McDowell (M.E., '75), was 
born in Athens, O., March 3, 1856. He was 




F. M. Leavitt 

engaged in designing steam steering-gear 
with Mr. F. E. Sickles, 1876; as head 
draughtsman with Bliss & Williams, 1877- 
81 ; master mechanic for the Texas Mexican 
Railroad, 1881-82, and as manager of the 
Graydon & Denton Manufacturing Co., 1882- 
84. In the latter year he became assistant 
superintendent with the E. W. Bliss Co., 
Brooklyn, N. Y., taking the management of 
the works as chief engineer about 1888, and 
holding that office until 1901. In 1890, on 
behalf of the E. W. Bliss Co., he undertook 
the introduction of the Whitehead torpedo 
into the United States navy, and also in- 
stalled the plant of the United States Projec- 



tile Co. for the manufacture of forged-steel 
shell and shrapnel. In 1900 he perfected an 
improvement in the Whitehead torpedo, in 
which, by means of a superheater, the air is 
heated before passing to the engine, increas- 
ing the efficiency about 40 per cent, and 
adding to the speed of the torpedo about five 
knots per hour. 

In 1901 he opened an office in New York 
for general engineering practice. He has 
taken out many patents for sheet-metal work- 
ing and other machinery, and received the 
honorary degree of Mechanical Engineer 
from Stevens Institute in 1899. He presented 
a paper on " Tests Made to Determine the 
Power Consumed in Propelling a Whitehead 
Torpedo at Various Speeds," before the So- 
ciety of Naval Architects and Marine Engi- 
neers, November 14, 1901. He is a member 
of the American Society of Mechanical En- 
gineers ; the American Society of Civil En- 
gineers ; the Society of Naval Architects and 
Marine Engineers; the American Associa- 
tion for the Advancement of Science; and 
of the Engineers' Club. He was formerly a 
member of the Crescent Athletic Club of 
Brooklyn, N. Y. 

Mr. Leavitt is the son of Rev. John Mc- 
Dowell Leavitt, D.D., LL.D., and Bithia 
Brooks Leavitt. His first American ancestor, 
John Leavitt, born in England in 1608, came 
to America in 1628, was a member of the 
Colonial Legislature, and died at Hingham, 
Mass., in 1691. His grandfather, H. H. 
Leavitt, LL.D., sixth in descent from John 
Leavitt, was for nearly forty years judge 
of the United States district court in Ohio. 
The subject of this sketch married Gertrude 
Mitchell Goodsell, November 8, 1893. 

Leber, Robert (M.E., '96), is with Leber 
& Meyer, New York. 

Lederle, Frank (M.E., '81), was located 
in Atlanta, Ga., in 1882, as consulting engi- 
neer, making a specialty of steam and elec- 
tric plants ; was resident engineer for the 
Southern department of the General Elec- 
tric Co., 1889-93 ; 'iiid has been practising as 
consulting engineer at Atlanta, Ga., from 
1893 to date. 

Lembeck, Otto A. (M.E., '02), was born 
in Jersey City, N. J., and is connected with 



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the Lembeck & Betz Eagle Brewing Co., 
Jersey City, N. J. 

Lenone, Jose M. (M.E., '02), is with the 
firm of M. W. Kellogg & Co., New York. 

Lenssen, Gustave Arthur, Jr. (M.E., '95), 
was born in Elizabeth, N. J., December 23, 
1874; son of Gustave Arthur and Emily 
Bulow (Wilson) Lenssen. On his mother's 
side he comes from an old New York family, 
being a descendant of the original Peter Goe- 
let. His father, a silk-importer, came to the 
United States from Rheydt, Rhenish Prussia, 
in 1870. Young Lenssen's early education 
was received at home, at Wilson & Kellogg's 
School, New York, and at the Stevens High 
School. He was mechanical engineer with 
the Ansonia Brass & Copper Co., Ansonia, 
Conn., 1895-98; being employed upon de- 
signs and the construction of wire-drawing 
machines. He introduced an improved sys- 
tem for automatically oiling the bearings of 
the machines in the cable-screw-wire depart- 
ment. The company patented a wire disk of 
his invention, which is specially adapted for 
continuous wire-drawing machines. He was 
in the inspection department of the Edison 
Electric Illuminating Co., 1898-1901 ; and is 
now of the firm of Lenssen & Thompson, 




Mechanical Engineers ; a member of the 
BufTalo Club, Buffalo, N. Y., and of Com- 
pany K of the Seventh Regiment, National 
Guard of the State of New York. 

Lent, Leon Brewster (M.E., '97), was 
born in Brewster, N. Y., July 22, 1876; son 




G. A. Lenssen, Jr. 



insurance brokers. New York. He is a 
junior member of the American Society of 



of Leander B. and Rosetta (Brewster) Lent. 
He was with the Coulter & McKenzie Ma- 
chine Co., Bridgeport, Conn., 1897-98; with 
the Deane Steam Pump Co., Holyoke, Mass., 
1898; spent most of 1899 (on account of ill 
health) in the woods; was in the Middle 
States Inspection Bureau, New York, 1900; 
engaged in mine-surveying and construction 
work, 1901 ; and has been associate editor of 
Poiver from 1902 to date. He has written 
several articles for Power, among them be- 
ing : " Producer Gas and Gas Producers " ; 
" Lhe Use of Blast Furnace Gas and Coke 
Oven Gas in Gas Engines " ; " A Method of 
Calculating Crank Effort Curves " ; and 
" The Diesel Engine," reprinted in Engineer- 
ing (London), The Mechanical World (Lon- 
don), and other papers. 

Leonhard, Theodore S. (M.E., '93), was 
draughtsman at the Raub Locomotive Works, 
Mayville, N. Y., 1893-94; with Mitchell & 
Co., New York, candle manufacturers, 1894; 
the W. & A. Fletcher Co., Hoboken, N. J., 
1894-95; the National Sugar Refining Co., 



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Yonkers, N. Y., 1895-1900; the Hohmann & 
Maurer Co., manufacturers of high-grade 
thermometers for engineering purposes, 1900- 
01 ; the W. & A. Fletcher Co., Hoboken, 
N. J., 1901-02; and with the Munoz Boiler 
Co., New York, from 1902 to date. He is 
a junior member of the American Society 
of mechanical engineers. 

Le Page, Clifford B. (M.E., '02), Instructor 
in Physics at Stevens Institute of Tech- 
nology. For biography, see page 281. 

Leverich, Jerome W. (M.E., '02), is with 
the Scranton Bolt & Nut Co., Scranton, Pa. 
He is a member of the Tau Beta Pi fra- 
ternity. 

Levie, George Henry (M.E., '02), was 
born in Paterson, N. J., June 3, 1880; son of 




G. H. Levie 

James and Kittie E. Levie. He entered the 
employ of the Providence Engineering 
Works in April, 1902, and served for a short 
time in the draughting-room and then in the 
sales department. In July he was taken ill, 
and he died August 14, 1902. He was a 
member of the Sigma Nu and Tau Beta Pi 
fraternities. 

Lewis, Arthur Schultz (M.E., '01), was 
born in Brooklyn, N. Y., December 27, 1880; 
son of Osborn H. and Emma (Schultz) 



Lewis. He entered Sibley College, Cornell 
University, in the fall of 1901, as a canchdate 
for the deg-ree of Master Mechanical Engi- 
neer in the post-graduate course in Marine 
Engineering and Naval Architecture, but, 
being stricken with typhoid fever, withdrew 
from the University. He is at present em- 
ployed in the Department of Construction 
& Repair of the Brooklyn Navy Yard, Brook- 
lyn, N. Y. He is a member of Phi Sigma 
Kappa and Theta Nu Epsilon fraternities. 

Lewis, Edward Dayton (M.E., '93), was 
born in Brooklyn, N. Y., September 6, 1871 ; 
son of Theodore Frelinghuysen and Eliza- 
beth Clement Lewis. His ancestors, from 
both sides, came to America from England 
and Wales about 1672. He was draughts- 
man and computer in the Department of 
Tests at the Stevens Institute, 1893-95; 
draughtsman with the American Reduction 
Co., Brooklyn, N. Y., 1895 '> was again em- 
]:)loyed in the Department of Tests, Stevens 
Institute, 1895-96; was associated with Mr. 
Charles J. Everett, M.E., New York, as com- 
puter on structural steel work, 1896; 
draughtsman with the Dutton Pneumatic 
Lock & Engineering Co., New York, 1896- 
97; in the Department of Tests, Stevens In- 
stitute, 1897-98; ar.d from 1898 to date has 




E. D. Lewis 



been employed with the Continuous Rail 
Joint Company of America, Newark, N. J., 



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467 



draughtsman, 1898-99, and assistant engi- 
neer, in charge of the order department and 
the draughting room, ever since. 



the construction and operation of tlie Edison 
station in that city. On tlie organization of 
the Itahan Edison Co. he became chief elec- 



Lewis, Nathan E. (M.E., '01), has Deen 
with the Babcock & Wilcox Co., Bayonne, 
N. J., from 1901 to date. 

Lidgerwood, James Graeme Onslow (M.E., 
'01), was. born in Morristown, N. J., Jan- 
uary, 1877; son of John Hedges and Harriet 
Bethia Vail (Cutler) Lidgerwood. He has 
been at the shops of the Lidgerwood Manu- 
facturing Co., Brooklyn, N. Y., from 1901 
to date. He is a member of the Beta Theta 
Pi and Tau Beta Pi fraternities. 

Lidgerwood, John Hedges, Jr. (M.E., '99), 
was born in Morristown, N. J., September 6, 
1875 ; son of John H. and Harriet B. Vail 
(Cutler) Lidgerwood. He took the post- 
graduate course at the School of Mines, Co- 
lumbia University, 1899-1901, receiving the 
degree of Engineer of Mines. He has been 
in the shops of the Lidgerwood Manufac- 
turing Co., manufacturers of hoisting-en- 
gines, etc., Brooklyn, N. Y., from 1901 to 
date. He is a member of the American Li- 
stitute of Mining Engineers, of the Beta 
Theta Pi and Tau Beta Pi fraternities, and 
of the Alumni Association of the Stevens 
Institute of Technology, and of the School 
of Science of Columbia University. 

Lieb. John William, Jr. (M.E., '80), was 
born in Newark, N. J., February 12, i860. 
He was draughtsman with the Brush Elec- 
tric Co., Cleveland, O., 1880-81 ; in the en- 
gineering department of the Edison Electric 
Light Co., New York, 1881-82; and was 
subsequently transferred to the testing de- 
partment of the Edison Machine Works and 
engaged on experimental work for Mr. 
Thomas A. Edison. He was next placed in 
charge of the electrical installation of the 
historic Edison Pearl Street station, the 
pioneer central station for the general distri- 
bution of electric light and power through an 
underground system, and on the inaugura- 
tion of regular service became the first elec- 
trician of the Edison Electric Illuminating 
Company of New York. 

In 1883 Mr. Lieb was sent to Milan, Italy, 
by Mr. Edison, to represent his interests in 




J. W. Lieb, Jr. 

trician, then chief engineer and manager of 
stations, in charge of the construction and 
operation of the central stations and iso- 
lated plants erected throughout Italy by that 
compan}'. The accompanying illustration 
shows a part of the fagade of the cathedral 
and the Galleria Vittorio Emanuele, in 
Milan. The view was taken at the time of 
the inauguration of the electric trolley line 
equipped under Mr. Lieb's direction in 1893, 
for the purpose of exhibiting to the Milan 
public a model trolley equipment, on the sue-- 
cessful performance of which the Milan Ed- 
ison Co. was awarded the franchise for the 
transformation to the trolley system of the 
entire horse car system of the city, with an 
equipment of 300 cars. 

Mr. Lieb returned to the United States in 
1893 to become assistant to the first vice- 
president of the Edison Electric Illuminating 
Company of New York, and was subsequent- 
ly appointed assistant general manager and 
later general manager. On the consolida- 
tion of the various electric lighting and 
power interests in New York city under the 
auspices of the New York Edison Co., Mr. 
Lieb was appointed third vice-president and 
associate general manager. He is also presi- 
dent of the Electrical Testing Laboratories, 



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and a director in a number of electrical cor- 
porations. He was appointed by President 
Elihu Thomson (President of the Committee 




Electric Street Railway at Mila 
J. W. Lich, Jr. 

of Organization of the St. Louis Interna- 
tional Electrical Congress^ chairman of Sec- 
tion E., Electric Light and Distribution. 
His writings comprise the following: 

"Underground Electric Light Wires," Indus- 
tries, (London), March 30. 1888. 

"The De Laval Steam Turbine" (discussion), 
presented at meeting of the American Society 
of Mechanical Engineers, December, 1895. 

"An Historic Electric Central Station." 
Presidential address before the New York Elec- 
trical Society; abstract published in Gassier' s 
Magazine, May, 1896. 

"Methods of Charging for Electric Current," 
paper read before the Association of Edison 
Illuminating Companies at the Niagara Falls 
Convention, September, 1897. 

Also discussions on variotis subjects, pub- 
lished in the Transactions of the American 
Society of Mechanical Engineers, the Ainerican 
Institute of Electrical Engineers, and the Asso- 
ciation of Edison Illuminating Companies. 

He is president of the American Institute 
of Electrical Engineers ; a member of the 
American Society of Civil Engineers; the 
American Society of Mechanical Engineers ; 



the Association of Edison Illuminating Com- 
panies (ex-president and member of execu- 
tive committee) ; the Associazione Elettro- 
tecnica Italiana ; the 
Franklin Institute ; 
the New York Elec- 
trical Society (ex- 
president) ; the En- 
gineers' Club; and 
of the Delta Tau 
Delta fraternity. He 
was president of the 
Stevens Institute 
Alumni Association, 
1897-98, and Alumni 
trustee of Stevens 
Institute of Tech- 
nology, 1 898- 1 90 1. 
In 1904 Mr. Lieb 
was honored by H. 
M. the King of 
Italy, with the deco- 
ration of Knight 
Commander of the 
Order of the Crown 
of Italy. 

N, Italy Mr. Lieb is the 

son of John William 
and Christina Lieb. 
He married Minnie F. Engler, July 29, 1886, 
and they have three children, Julia C, Min- 
nie E., and Adolph W. Lieb. 

Lienau, J. Henry (M.E., '91), was with 
the Robert Deely & Co. Ironworks, 1891 ; 
draughtsman at the Greenpoint Refinery of 
the American Sugar-Refining Co., 1891-93 ; 
in the superintendent's department of the 
same company's Jersey City Refinery, 1893- 
1900; and from 1900 to date has been super- 
intendent of the New York Refinery of the 
National Sugar-Refining Co. of New Jersey, 
Long Island City. 

Lilly, Martin G. (M.E., '86), was draughts- 
man at the Pennsylvania Steel Works, Steel- 
ton, Pa., 1886-92; and assistant engineer in 
the construction of the great Belt Line 
Bridge across the Mississippi at Alton, 111., 
in which capacity he was engaged until its 
completion in 1894. Beginning with the fall 
of 1894 and until the time of his death, which 
occurred March 2, 1895, he was a member of 
the W. H. von Mengemighausen Co., mechan- 
ical and constructing engineers, York, Pa. 



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Litchfield, Electus Darwin (M.E., '92), 
was born in New York city April 25, 1872; 
son of William Backus and Emily (Pope) 
Litchfield, both of whom are descendants of 
early American colonists who were nearly 
all English in origin and settlers in this 
country before 1650. His great-grandfather 
(Elisha Litchfield) was a member of Con- 
gress, 1813-15, and Speaker of the legisla- 
ture of New York, 1844. His father and his 
grandfather (Electus B. Litchfield) were 
prominent railway builders, having built the 
Lake Shore & Michigan Southern, the first 
division of the St. Paul & Pacific (now the 
Great Northern) Railway, and several other 
railroads. His father founded and was the 
first president of the National City Bank of 
St. Paul, IVIinn., and at the time of his death 
was manager of the Brooklyn Improvement 
Co. 

Electus D. attended the public schools at 
Staten Island and at Hartford, Conn., and 
was graduated in the scientific course from 
the Brooklyn Polytechnic Institute in 1889. 

Immediately upon graduation from Ste- 
vens Institute he accepted an offer of a po- 
sition as draughtsman and inspector with 
the Gould Coupler Co., Buffalo, N. Y., where 



Atlantic Refining Co. (Standard Oil Co.), 
Philadelphia, 1894-97; in the employ of the 
well-known structural constructors. Post & 
McCord, Lewinson & Just, Marinus Vander- 
kloot, studying the steel construction of 
buildings, 1897-98; assistant to engineer and 
manager of the architectural firm of Carrere 
& Hastings, 1898-1900, having for some six 
months, owing to illness of the chief engi- 
neer, full charge of the engineering work; 
and associate engineer with Lord & Hewlett, 
1900, and member of the firm, 1904. Lhis 
firm came prominently before the public as 
winners of the architectural competition for 
the new building for the Department of 
Agriculture, Washington, and also as one of 
the Board of Architects of the Carnegie 
libraries in the boroughs of Brooklyn and 
Queens, New York. Among other works of 
this firm, complete, in process of construc- 
tion, or about to be erected, are a number of 
buildings for the William Astor Estate ; the 
Stillman Memorial Wing for the Brooklyn 
Home for Aged Men ; private residences, 
and store, loft, and factory buildings ; armory 
for the Second Battalion of Naval Militia, 
New York city ; a Soldiers and Sailors' 
monument at Philadelphia ; monument to 



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he drew plans for steel and malleable-iron 
furnaces for the largest coupler-works in 
America. After leaving this position in 1893 
he was superintendent in charge of the office 
and works of the Philadelphia Car-Wheel 
Works, Philadelphia, 1893 ; assistant super- 
intendent of the paraffine department of the 



President McKinley, etc. In 1901 Mr. Litch- 
field was employed by the Brooklyn Improve- 
ment Co. to report as to the best type of 
bridge to replace the antiquated structures 
spanning Gowanus Canal, Brooklyn. His 
findings were practically adopted by the De- 
partment of Bridges, of Brooklyn. 



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Mr. Litchfield is a member of the New 
York chapter of the American Institute of 
Architects; the architectural department of 
the Brooklyn Institute of Arts and Sciences; 




City Club of New York ; the Badminton 
Club; the Society of Colonial Wars; the 
Brooklyn League; the Church Club; and of 
the Improvement League of the Thirtieth 
Ward, Brooklyn. 

Litchfield, Norman ( M.E., 'oi ), was born 
in Hartford, Conn., September 2^, 1880; son 
of William Backus and Emily (Pope) Litch- 
field. (For note of ancestry see the biogra- 
phy of his brother, E. D. Litchfield.) Nor- 
man graduated with the Class of 1895 from 
the Preparatory School of the Polytechnic 
Institute of Brooklyn, where he spent two 
years in the civil engineering course. He 
was employed in the car-repair shops of the 
Brooklyn Rapid Transit Co. (repairing elec- 
trical apparatus on surface cars, and install- 
ing and repairing the Westinghouse and 
General Electric multiple unit train control 
system on elevated cars), 1901-02; in the 
electrical director's department of the Inter- 
borough Rapid Transit Co., operators of the 
New York Subway (engaged on the installa- 
tion of the General Electric and Westing- 
house train control on sample cars used for 
the exhibition of equipment in competition 
for the subway equipment contract, and on 



tests of General Electric No. 69 and West- 
inghouse No. 86 ring motors and train con- 
trol, etc.), 1902-03; and assistant engineer 
of car equipment, 1904 to date. He is a 
member of the Tau Beta Pi fraternity. 

Litchfield, Percy (M.E., '97), was born in 
New York city March 25, 1877; son of Wil- 
liam Backus and Emily (Pope) Litchfield. 
( For note of ancestry see the biography of 
his brother^ E. D. Litchfield.) He was 
draughtsman with Charles Henry Davis, 
consulting engineer. New York, 1897; assist- 
ant to engineer in charge of the construc- 
tion of a new plant for the John Stephenson 
Co., Ltd., car-builders, Elizabeth, N. J., 
1897-98 (the work consisting of grading the 
site, erecting eight factory buildings, a steel 
tank and clock tower, lumber-sheds, etc. ; 
constructing about two miles of railroad 
spurs and sidings, two distinct water sys- 
tems, and a sewer system over a mile in 
length; and installing heating and electric- 
power plants), and later superintendent in 
charge of the above work under the direc- 
tion of the superintendent of construction of 
Mr. C. H. Davis's office; employed by 
Thompson & Adam, builders, as a superin- 
tendent of construction having charge of 




Percy Litchfield 

the foundations of a large residence at 
Princeton, N. J., 1899; in the experimental 
department of the Planters' Compress Co. of 



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471 



Boston, 1899 ; with the Rapid Transit Sub- 
way Construction Co., New York, as first 
assistant to the resident engineer of the first 
division (having in charge the diiTerent sub- 
contracts between the City Hall and Thirty- 
fourth Street, and the erection of two 
electrical sub-stations) 1900-03; and later 
as resident engineer (in charge of Section 
3 of the Brooklyn extension), 1903 to date. 
He is a vestryman of St. Jude's Church, 
Blythebourne. 

Littlejohn, Kenneth S. (M.E., "98), was in 
the engineering department of the Brooklyn 
Elevated Railroad, Brooklyn, N. Y., 1898- 
1902, and has been assistant to the civil 
engineer on " Lampasos" work of the Mexi- 
can Central Railroad, from 1902 to date. 

Lockwood, Rutherford T. (M.E., '99), was 
with the Edison Electric Illuminating Co., 
of New York, 1899; has since been assist- 
ant to the superintendent of the electrical 
department of the Carnegie Steel Co., Ltd., 
Duquesne Steel Works and Blast Furnaces, 
Duquesne, Pa. ; draughtsman at the Crescent 
Shipyard, Elizabeth, N. J., and is now engi- 
neer at the Bayonne Refinery of the Stand- 
ard Oil Co., Bayonne, N. J. 

Loewenherz, Herman (M.E., '92), was 
born in Hoboken, N. J., August 3, 1871 ; son 
of Joseph and Sophia Loewenherz. He re- 
ceived his early education at the Hoboken 
Academy. He was employed by the Mis- 
souri Electric Light & Power Co., and the 
Wagner Electric & Manufacturing Co., on 
designing and testing" work, 1892, for the 
former company, redesigning all the old- 
style Westinghouse alternators of 250 horse- 
power; took an expert course in shop-work 
with the Westinghouse Electric & Manufact- 
uring Co., Newark, N. J-, 1893 ; was assist- 
ant engineer with the New York Telephone 
Co., 1893-96, during which time he was en- 
gaged upon designs for the Harlem, and 
Broad, Eighteenth, and Cortlandt streets 
telephone exchanges. The designs for the 
Harlem exchange called for the use of the 
so-called "common battery system " and in- 
cluded many new features. 

He also designed a submarine cable cross- 
ing at 85th St. and East River, New York. 
He was engaged on the subway work of the 



Newark Telephone Co., Newark, N. J-, in 
charge of workmen and of manhole con- 
struction, 1896; with Mr. Vanderkloot, New 
York, for whom he detailed the steel girders 
in a public-school building, and was also en- 




Herman Loewenherz 

gaged upon the Taylor Building, East Nine- 
teenth St., 1897; was detailer and designer 
with Lewinson & Just, civil engineers and 
contractors, New York, 1897-98; and from 
spring of the latter year to 1903 he was 
employed in the draughting departments of 
the following New York firms: Milliken 
Bros. ; Jackson Architectural Iron Works ; 
Cooper & Wigand; S. C. Weiskopf (in 
charge of shop details for steel work on the 
Simpson-Crawford Co. building. New York) ; 
Thompson-Starrett Construction Co. ; Empire 
Bridge Co. ; Tidewater Building Co. ; and then 
in the engineering department of the J. B. & 
J. M. Cornell Iron Works, New York city. 

While in the employ of the New York 
Telephone Co. in 1895 Mr. Loewenherz con- 
tributed two articles to the Electrical Engi- 
neer: on " Inspection of Steel Rails for 
Electric Railways," and on " A Handy Cable- 
Testing Arrangement." He is an associate 
member of the American Institute of Elec- 
trical Engineers. 

Loewy, George Julius (M.E., '97), was 
born in New York city February 19, 1874; 
son of Sigmund and Minna Loewy, both of 



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German parentage. He received his early 
instruction in' the public schools of New 
York city, and in Canada, and at the College 
of the City of New York. He worked his 
way through the latter and the Stevens In- 
stitute, earning the necessary funds as a 
musician. He was employed in the Depart- 
ment of Tests at the Stevens Institute, 1897- 
98; was with the Uehling & Steinbart Co., 
Newark, N. J., 1898; draughtsman with R. 
Hoe & Co., printing-press manufacturers, 
New York, 1898-99; instructor in shop work 
for the Public School System, New York, 
1899-1901. During the years 1901-03 he 
served as instructor in chemistry in the East 
Side Evening High School for Men, New 
York, and at the same time pursued a post- 



from 190 1 to date. The largest individual 
job that he has had to do in his latter posi- 




graduate course of study in chemistry at 
Columbia University. 

Loizeaux, Alfred Samuel (M.E., '99), was 
born in Vinton, Iowa, February 12, 1877. 
He was Instructor during the supplementary 
Term at Stevens Institute, 1899 ; with Strong 
& Totten, electrical contractors, New York, 
1899; draughtsman with the Compressed 
Gas Capsule Co., Bridgeport, Conn., 1899- 
1900; switchboard draughtsman with the 
General Electric Co., Schenectady, N. Y., 
1900-01 ; and has been foreman of the 
switchboard draughting department of the 
same company (with a force of 75 men) 




.'\. S. Loizeaux 

tion was in connection with the great power 
house and sub-station equipment recently in- 
stalled by the Manhattan Elevated Railway 
Co., New York, in changing its power from 
steam to electricity. He has been a member 
of the General Electric Engineering Society 
since 1900, and secretary of the Society since 
1903. He is also a member of the Tau Beta 
Pi fraternity. 

Mr. Loizeaux is the son of T. O. and 
Anna M. (Roberts) Loizeaux. He married 
Edith May MacMurchy, May 3, 1903. 

Longstreet, J. Holmes (M.E. '79), was 
born in Bordentown, N. J., March 19, 1856; 
son of Henry H. and Hannah Ann Long- 
street, and of Dutch descent. Since gradua- 
tion he has been president of the Waterworks 
and of the Gasworks at Bordentown, N. J. ; 
proprietor of the Riverview Ironworks ; and 
director of the Bordentown Banking Co. 
He has taken out several patents for print- 
ing telegraph instruments. He is a member 
of the Beta Theta Pi fraternity, and of the 
Benevolent and Protective Order of Elks. 
He was formerly a member of the Holland 
Society of New York. 

Lopez, David H. (M.E., '88), was super- 
intendent of the Little Belle Iron Co., 



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473 



Bessemer, Ala., erecting blast furnaces, coal- 
bins, coke-ovens, etc., 1888-90; and assistant 
superintendent of the Coosaw Mining Co., 
engaged in mining phosphate rock, from 
1890 to date. He has been assistant superin- 
tendent of the Sea Island Chemical Co., and 
Oak Point Mines Co., Beaufort, S. C, for 
the last fe\v years, and is a member of the 
American Society of Mechanical Engineers. 




J. H. LONGSTREET 

Lord, Alfred Bowen (M.E., '93), was born 
in New Jersey, September 24, 1871 ; son of 
William A. and Alice (Bowen) Lord. He 
was chemist and manager in the solder and 
Babbitt metal department of the Atlantic 
White Lead Works, Brooklyn, N. Y., from 
1894 until his death, which occurred Feb- 
ruary 17, 1897. He was a member of the 
Lincoln Club, Brooklyn, and of the Alpha 
Tau Omega fraternity. 

Lord, Edmund P. (M.E., '82), has been 
assistant superintendent of motive power of 
the Pennsylvania Co. (Northwest System) ; 
superintendent of motive power of the Cleve- 
land, Cincinnati, Chicago, & St. Louis Rail- 
road ; and is now general manager for the 
H. K. Porter Co., Pittsburg, Pa. He is 
the author of a paper on " Mechanical Haul- 
age by Compressed Air," read before the 
Ohio Institute of Mining Engineers, and also 
of a paper presented to the Anthracite Coal 
Operators' Association in New York. 



Lorsch, Edwin S. (M.E., '91), was born 
in New York city November 19, 1869; son 
of Sigmund and Jenny (Schimmel) Lorsch, 
both born in Germany. He was employed 
by the George F. Blake Manufacturing Co., 
Cambridgeport, Mass., manufacturers of 
pumping-machinery, 1891-93, his work being 
that of testing and inspecting machinery be- 
fore shipment, and also " efficiency tests " 
of several waterworks; in the engineering 
and erection department of the Electrical & 
Mechanical Engineering Co., New York, 
1894-95 ; and with Sussfeld, Lorsch, & Co., 
commission merchants, New York, 1895- 
1901. From the latter year to date he has 
been a member of the last-mentioned firm, 
in charge of the export department, making a 
specialty of introducing American machin- 
ery into European countries. He is a mem- 
ber of the Harmonic Club, and of the Ameri- 
can Society of Mechanical Engineers. 




. Lord 



Loud, Henry Sherman (M.E., '90), was 
born in Brooklyn, N. Y., August 31, 1868. 
He was president of the Class of 1887, cap- 
tain of the football team, and editor-in-chief 
of the " Polywog," while at the Brooklyn 
Polytechnic Institute; and while at Stevens 
he was active in college affairs, being " neu- 
tral " editor of the " Eccentric," guard on 
the 'Varsity football team, and manager of 
the 'Varsity baseball team. 

He was with the Illinois Steel Co., South 



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Chicago, 111., 1890-96, being successively 
night superintendent of the rail-mill, night 
superintendent of the South Works, and 
superintendent of the open-hearth and plate 
department. In 1896 he went to Russia to 
build and manage the works of the Nicopol- 
Mariopol Mining & Metallurgical Co., plans 
for which were prepared by Julian Kennedy. 
During the four years he spent in Russia, he 
built and put in successful operation a plant 
employing 4,000 men and consisting of two 
blast-furnaces, 100 Coppee coke-ovens, five 
30-ton O. H. furnaces, two plate-mills (one 
132-inch and one 72-inch), a lap-weld pipe- 
mill, machine-shop, foundry, electric and 
pumping stations, etc. The works were 




H. S. Loud 

built on the steppe, and a village for 15,000 
people was put up by the company. In 
1900 he became manager of the Trafford 
Park works of the British Westinghouse 
Electric & Manufacturing Co., Ltd., Man- 
chester, England, which employ nearly 5,000 
men in the manufacture of all classes of 
electrical apparatus, steam and gas engines 
and steam turbines. 

He is a member of the American Society 
of Mechanical Engineers, the Institution of 
Mechanical Engineers, the Institution of 
Electrical Engineers, the Chicago Club, the 
University Club of New York, the Conserva- 
tive Club of Manchester, and the Beta Theta 
Pi fraternity. 



Mr. Loud is the son of Henry W. and 
Louisa Sherman Loud. His paternal ances- 
tors were Maine people. On his mother's 
side he is descended from Roger Sherman 
one of the signers of the Declaration of In- 
dependence. He married Eva Margaret 
Humphreys, August 3, 1898, and they have 
three children, Henry Sherman, Jr., Mar- 
guerite Erskine Westinghouse, and Alexan- 
der Crombie Humphreys Loud. 

Lozano, Carlos Augusto (M.E., '87), was 
born in Lisbon, Portugal, April 7, 185 1 ; son 
of Manuel Jose and Carlotta Luisello Lo- 
zano. He received a business education in 
Lisbon, and prior to entering Stevens Insti- 
ture in 1883 he had commercial and consular 
experience in Portugal, Brazil, and New 
York. He was engaged in various capacities 
(as draughtsman, machinist, foreman erec- 
tor, refrigerating expert, and engineering 
salesman) with the following firms: the 
Welsbach Incandescent Gas Light Co., New 
York, 1887-88; Bergman & Co., New York, 
1888; the De La Vergne Refrigerating Ma- 
chine Co., New York, 1888-94; the Fulton 
Engineering & Shipbuilding Works, San 
Francisco, Cal., 1895-96; the Fred. W. Wolf 
Co., Chicago, 111., 1896-97; and was a con- 
sulting engineer in New York from 1897 to 
1898. He was with the Babcock & Wilcox 
companies of New York and London, 1899- 
1900. He has not been engaged in engineer- 
ing since 1900. 

Lozier, Arthur de la Montagnie (M.E., 
'94), was born in Orange, N. J., August 2, 
1874; son of Abraham W. and Jennie de la 
M. Lozier, and grandson of Clemence Sophia 
Lozier, M.D. His mother's ancestry is 
French Huguenot. Shortly after gradua- 
tion he entered the employ of Warren & 
Lozier, and later that of Church, Kerr, & Co. 
He next became assistant manager of the 
Bullock Electric Co., which position he oc- 
cupied at the time of his death, August 26, 
1897. 

Mr. Lozier took out a patent in 1896 for 
an automatic electrical deep-sea sounding- 
machine for ascertaining the depth of water 
without measuring the length of the sound- 
ing-line or hauling up the lead, the depth 
being indicated on a dial placed on the 
bridge. He contributed to Pozver a series of 



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475 



articles headed " Dynamos and Motors : 
First Aid to the Injured," — which appeared 




A. DE LA i\I. LOZIER 

for six consecutive months commencing 
August, 1895. Mr. Lozier was an active 
member of the Naval Militia of the State of 
New York and a petty officer of the Signal 
Corps of that body. 

Ludlow, William Orr (M.E., '92), was 
born in New York city May 24, 1870. He 
was draughtsman, and, later, superintendent 
of construction with Carrere & Hastings, 
architects, New York, 1892-95, in the latter 
capacity having charge of the erection of a 
number of buildings, among which was the 
City Hall of Paterson, N. J. At the termina- 
tion of the last named work he was ap- 
pointed, by the city, architect in charge of 
the furnishing and equipment of the build- 
ing. He has been associated with Charles A. 
Valentine, under the firm name of Ludlow 
& Valentine, architects. New York, from 
1895 to date. Lhe work of this firm has been 
the designing and superintending of the erec- 
tion of many important buildings, including 
a 12-story, skeleton construction, $500,000 
apartment-hotel building on 44th and 45th 
streets, sales stables for the Standard Coach 
Horse Co., and business buildings on Clinton 
Place and 9th St., and an operating pavilion 
in connection with Bellevue Hospital, New 
York; a bank building for the East Orange 



National Bank, East Orange, N. J. ; a mill 
for the Sterling- Worth Railway Supply Co., 
Easton, Pa. ; mills for the American Pega- 
moid Co., at UndercHff, N. J. ; a pumping- 
station at Santiago, Cuba, for the United 
States government ; church buildings at Pat- 
erson, N. J., New York city, and in the State 
of Washington ; the erection of a large num- 
ber of suburban residences; and the extend- 
ing and alteration of many other buildings. 

He was a junior member of the American 
Society of Mechanical Engineers from 1892 
to 1898. He is an associate member of the 
American Listitute of Architects; and a 
member of the Architectural League of New 
York; of Hope Lodge, Free and Accepted 
Masons; the Republican Club, of East Or- 
ange, N. J. ; and of the Delta Tau Delta 
fraternity. 

Mr. Ludlow is the son of James M. and 
Emma (Orr) Ludlow. On his mother's side 
he is a descendant of the brother of Abram 
Pierson, first president of Yale College, and 
on his father's side is a direct descendant 
from Edward Doty, one of the Pilgrim 




W. O. Ludlow 

Fathers who came over in the " Mayflower.'' 
He married Abbie G. Hartwell, June 10, 
1902. 

Lukens, Lewis N. (M.E., '85), was born 
in McKeesport, Pa., July 11, 1864. He was 
assistant superintendent for the Alan Wood 



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Co., Conshohocken, Pa., manufacturers of 
sheet iron, 1885-88; a dealer in wrought-iron 
pipe. New York, and agent for the Consho- 
hocken Tube Co., 1888-97; ^rid has been 
vice-president of the Longmead Iron Co., 
manufacturers of wrought-iron pipe and 
skelp iron, Conshohocken, Pa., with offices 
in Philadelphia, from 1897 to date. He is a 
member of the University and Art clubs, 
Philadelphia. 

Mr. Lukens is the son of Alan Wood and 
Elizabeth (Nevius) Lukens, and of Dutch 
descent, ancestors of both families coming to 
America in the 17th century. He married 
Edith Clark, December 3, 1890, and they 
have four children, Alan Wood, Edward 
Clark, Lewis Nelson, and Elizabeth Nelson 
Lukens. 




R. O. LUQUEER 

Lunger, Waldo G. (M.E., '98), before 
graduation, volunteered in the war with 
Spain and was detailed on the U. S. S. 
" Badger." At the close of the war he en- 
tered the repair shops of the North Jersey 
Street Railway Co., Jersey City, N. J. ; and 
has since been with the Rockwell Engineer- 
ing Co., New York. His thesis, written 
jointly with Messrs. J. D. Hackstaff and 
Warren H. Miller, on " Efficiency of the 
Twin-Screw Steam-Yacht ' Sovereign,' " 
was published in the Stevens Institute Indi- 
cator April, 1899. Hs is ^ junior member 
of the American Society of Mechanical En- 
gineers. 



Luqueer, Robert Orr (M.E., '99), was born 
in New York city December 5, 1878. He 
has been with Humphreys & Glasgow, since 
graduation, in the capacity of assistant engi- 
neer, having spent about one year in Eng- 
land working on the erection and operation 
of carburetted water-gas plants, and since 
that time has been engaged in the regular 
examination work of the New York firm. 
He is a member of the American Gas Light 
Association, and the Delta Tau Delta and 
Tau Beta Pi fraternities. 

Mr. Luqueer is the son of Robert S. and 
Mary Orr Luqueer. He married Florence 
Dudley Guillaudeu, October 22, 1903. 

Lyall, William Lord (M.E., "84), was born 
in New York city June 24, 1863. After 
graduation he became connected with the 
firm of J. & W. Lyall, loom and machine 
works, New York. In 1890 he was made 
superintendent, also acting as mechanical 
engineer for the Brighton Mills owned by 




W. L. Lyall 

the above firm. In 1900 he was placed in 
general charge of the design and erection of 
the new plant of the Brighton Mills at Pas- 
saic, N. J., and in 1901 was made treasurer, 
assuming the general management of the 
company. He is a member of the American 
Society of Mechanical Engineers; the New 
England Cotton Manufacturers' Association ; 
the Engineers' and Yountakah Country 



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477 



clubs; the St. Andrew's Society; and of the 
Delta Tau Delta fraternity. 

Mr. Lyall is the son of William and Kitty 







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IF. L. Lyall 

(Earl) Lyall. He married Cecelia C. Lam- 
bert, December 3, 1902. 

Lydecker, Leigh K. (M.E., '02), after 
graduation, studied law at New York Uni- 
versity, from which he received the degree 
of Bachelor of Laws in 1904. He is now 
practising law in New York city. 




A. B. Macbeth 



Macbeth, Alexander Barksdale (M.E., 
'97), was born in Batesville, S. C, September 
5, 1873 ; son of Alexander and Eliza T. Mac- 
beth, and grandson 
of George A. Tren- 
holm, Secretary of 
the Treasury of the 
Confederate States 
of America. He 
was with the B. F. 
Sturtevant Co., New 
York, 1897-98; and 
has been in the em- 
ploy of the United 
Gas Improvement 
C o., Philadelphia, 
from 1898 to date; 
being detailed to the 
Philadelphia Gas 
Works, 1898-99; to 
Atlanta, Ga., with 
the Atlanta Gas 
Light Co., 1899- 
1900 ; assistant su- 
perintendent of the 
Kansas City (Mo.) 
Gas Co., 1900-03, 
and engineer of the same company from 
1904 to date. He is a member of the 
Western Gas Association, and of the Beta 
Theta Pi fraternity. 

McBurney, E. L. (M.E., '89), is associated 
with his brother in the practice of law, with 
special reference to patent and insurance 
work, under the firm name of McBurney & 
McBurney, New York. He has taken out 
a number of patents concerning the hard- 
ware and boot-and-shoe trades. 

MacCord, Charles William, Jr. (M.E., 
'94), was born in Hoboken, N. J., May 14. 
1873; son of Charles William and Evelyn 
Holden MacCord. He was draughtsman at 
the Schenectady Locomotive Works, 1894, 
his work including the determination, by 
computation from drawings, of the location 
of the centres of gravity of locomotives. His 
computed weights were ■ checked by actual 
weighing, and found to be practically cor- 
rect. He was associate editor of Pozver, 
1895-97. In this capacity he wrote numer- 
ous leading articles, as follows : 

"Riveted Joints" (reprinted by the Mechani- 
cal World, England). 



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"Valve Gears" (serial), 1896. This series of 
papers, revised and with new drawings, and 
with the addition of an analysis of shaft gover- 
nors, was subsequently pviblished in book form 
with the title of "SUde Valves," by John Wiley 
& Sons, New York. 

"Flow of Steam in Pipes." 

"Heating Surfaces of Boilers." 

" Power Dictionary " (serial). 

"Electrical Catechism" (serial). 

"Valve-Setting on Steam Pttmps " (serial). 

He was with Mcintosh, Seymour, & Co., en- 
o-ine builders, Auburn, N. Y., from 1897 




C. W. M.A.CC0RD, Jr. 

until his death, which followed an operation 
for appendicitis, June 5, 1898. He was a 
member of the Alpha Tau Omega fraternity. 

McCoy, Joseph S. (M.E., '85), was with 
the Baltimore & Ohio Railroad, Baltimore, 
Md., 1885-86; at the Riverside Iron Works, 
Wheeling, W. Va., 1886-87; a"d has been 
government actuary under control of the 
Treasury Department, from 1887 to date. 
In 1893 the Georgetown University con- 
ferred upon him the degree of Bachelor of 
Laws, and in 1894 that pf Master of Laws. 
In 1895 he was admitted to the bar of the 
District of Columbia. In 1898 he was made 
statistical expert and disbursing officer to 
the High Joint Commission appointed 
by President McKinley to adjust all griev- 
ances between Canada and the United States. 



This Commission met in Quebec in 1898 
and in Washington in 1899. In 1898 he 
was also detailed as aid to the special com- 
missioner plenipotentiary under the tariff 
law of 1897. In this capacity he assisted in 
the negotiation of a series of reciprocity 
treaties with a number of foreign govern- 
ments, including Great Britain, Germany, 
France. Italy, Portugal, Denmark, Brazil, 
etc., and in advancing the interests of Ameri- 
can exporters in all parts of the world. In 
1902 he appeared a number of times before 
the Foreign Relations Committee of the 
United States Senate as a tariff expert, and 
in 1903 was sent by the Department of State 
to China on matters of business relating to 
the Chinese indemnity, returning in 1904. 

McCulloch, John A. (M.E., '86), was placed 
m charge of the mechanical interests of the 
Pittston Engine & Machine Co., Pittston, 
Pa., at a time when the president of the 
company had resigned, the general manager 
was unable to attend to his duties, and the 
superintendent and foreman had left their 
posts. Mr. McCulloch secured enough work 
to keep the business going and placed it 
upon a better basis, enabling the directors 
to arrange more favorable terms when the 
company was merged into the Vulcan Iron 
Works of Wilkesbarre, Pa., 1886-87. He 
was test expert with the Welsbach Incandes- 
cent Gas Light Co., 1887-88, and was en- 
gaged on special test and research work for 
the company at Gloucester, N. J., 1888-89, 
and he took charge of the shop for lamp 
repair work and for constructing models of 
new devices, 1889-90. He was in the esti- 
mating-office of the Midvale Steel Co., Phila- 
delphia, 1890-92; with Henry Aiken, M.E., 
Pittsburg, Pa., 1892-93 ; with Julian Kenne- 
dy, M.E., Pittsburg, 1893 ; draughtsman in 
the United States Engineer Office, Pittsburg, 
under Major R. L. Hoxie, U.S.A., 1894-95 ; 
in charge of the Hydraulic Machine Co., 
Pittsburg, 1895-96; chief draughtsman and, 
later, assistant engineer in the United States 
Engineer Office, engaged in designing ma- 
chinery and masonry, and construction for 
river improvements on the Allegheny and 
Monongahela rivers, first under Major 
Hoxie and subsequently under Major Charles 
F. Powell, U.S.A., 1896-1900; and has been 
in the jobbing-shop of the national depart- 



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479 



ment of the National Tube Co.'s works, Mc- 
Keesport, Pa., from 1900 to date. 

McCuUough, Charles Herbert, Jr. (M.E. 
'91), was born in Philadelphia, Pa., Decem- 




C. II. McCuLLouGH, Jr. 

ber 25, 1868. He occupied various positions 
with the Illinois Steel Co., Chicago, becom- 
ing 2d vice-president, 1891-1904. He is now 
assistant to the president of the Lackawanna 
Steel Co., New York. He is a member of the 
Chicago Club, and of the Chi Phi fraternity. 
Mr. McCullough is the son of Charles H. 
and Elizabeth G. (Piatt) McCullough. He 
married Jessie Martin, November 3, 1897, 
and they have two children, Eleanor Eliza- 
beth and Jessica McCullough. 

Macdonald, James V. (M.E., '93), was 
assistant engineer with the Safety Car Heat- 
ing & Lighting Co., of New York ; has spent 
some time in foreign travel ; and is now en- 
gaged in contract work in New York. He 
is a junior member of the American Society 
of Mechanical Engineers. 

McElroy, Joseph Aloysius (M.E., '87), was 
born in Bridgeport, Conn.. March 20, 1859. 
He left school when twelve years old, and 
worked in a factory for four years. Then, 
after ten months more of school, he served 
a three-years apprenticeship as a machinist. 
He next worked as journeyman for Brown & 



Sharpe Manufacturing Co., the Boston Ma- 
chine Co., the Waltham Watch Co., and the 
Ashcroft Steam Gauge Co., all the time pre- 
paring to enter Stevens Listitute. 

He was assistant superintendent of work 
at Omaha, Neb., for the United Gas Lii- 
provement Co., of Philadelphia, 1887-88; and 
was employed on the Central Tressa Sugar 
Estate, Cuba, 1888-89; and by the Field En- 
gineering Co., 1889-96. As one of the engi- 
neers of this company, he prepared many of 
the plans, etc., of the Buffalo, Worcester, 
and other railway systems built by that con- 
cern. In 1894 he designed and built the 
power station for the Bridgeport Traction 
Co., Bridgeport, Conn., and was the com- 
pany's engineer during the equipment of the 
system. In 1895 he designed and built the 
power station for the Brunswick Traction 
Co., New Brunswick, N. J., and was engi- 
neer of construction until ^anuary, 1896, at 
which time he became associated with Mr. 
J. F. Macartney, E.E., under the firm name 
of Macartney, McElroy, & Co., for the con- 
struction of electric roads. This firm was 
successful in securing a number of contracts 
in this country and in Canada, chief among 
which were those for roads at New Bruns- 
wick and Bound Brook, N. J., Highlands 
and Syracuse, N. Y., Hamilton, O., Hamil- 




J. A. McElroy 

ton, Ont., and Sherbrooke, Que. They also 
designed the (water) power station, together 



THE STEVENS INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY 



with the dam, canal, etc., for the Syracuse 
& Suburban Railway, Syracuse, N. Y. 

In 1898 Messrs. Macartney and McElroy 
organized the firm of Macartney, McElroy, & 
Co., Ltd., under British laws, and with the 
registered ofifice of the company in London. 
During its second year the firm increased its 
capital from £12,000 to £60,000; and since its 
organization it has executed contracts at 
Glasgow and Aberdeen, Scotland; at Man- 
chester, Brighton, Southampton, Halifax, 
Southport, Hartlepool, Stockport, etc., in 
England ; at Lisbon, Portugal ; at Durban 
and Delagoa Bay, South Africa ; and at Wel- 
lington, N. Z. Its work comprises the com- 
plete equipment of electric roads, including 
the overhead work, track, paving, feeders, 
power houses, cars, etc. 

Mr. McElroy has taken out a patent for 
rollers for heavy doors used in car-houses, 
freight-sheds, etc., and, in association with 
others, owns patents for a third-rail system 
of electric traction. He is a member of the 
American Society of Mechanical Engineers; 
of the Tramway and Light Railway Associa- 
tion of Great Britain ; the Catholic Club of 
New York ; and of the Chi Psi fraternity. 

Mr. McElroy is the son of Charles and 
Margaret McElroy, both Irish. His father 
served in the 17th Connecticut Volunteers 
during the Civil War, and died in 1869 from 
the effects of a wound received at Gettys- 
burg. Joseph Aloysius married Caroline A. 
Crotty, in June, 1889 (deceased, 1891), and 
Alice Elizabeth Mary Dial, October 23, 1902. 

McGahie, Fred. H. (M.E., '92), was in the 
shops of H. R. Worthington, 1892-93; as- 
sistant with the Pneumatic Torpedo & Con- 
struction Co. in experiments on military ex- 
plosives and the projection of torpedoes from 
guns with smokeless powder, 1893-94 ; and 
superintendent of the Maxim Powder & Tor- 
pedo Co., Lower Squankum, N. J., 1894-97. 
He took an active share in the development 
of the multi-perforated smokeless powder 
used by the United States army and navy, 
and took out a patent for an improved form 
of multi-perforated powder. He has been in 
the draughting department of the E. W. 
Bliss Co., Brooklyn, N. Y., since 1899. 

McGowan, Henry Eddy (M.E., '94), was 
born in Brooklyn, N. Y., October 3, 1872; 



son of Henry D. and Sophia C. (Pitts) 
McGowan. He was process chemist at the 
factory of Church & Co., Trenton, Wayne 
County, Mich., manufacturers of bicarbon- 
ate of soda by the ammonia process, 1894- 
98. In 1898 he was engaged by the Brooklyn 
Union Gas Co. to assist in investigating the 
electrolytic destruction of their piping by 
stray trolley-currents, and at the termination 
of this survey, etc., an electrical department 
being formed by the company, Mr. Mc- 
Gowan was placed at its head, with the title 
of electrical engineer. This position he still 
holds, having charge of the question of 
electrolysis and of the gas-engine business. 
In 1903 he was appointed general manager 
of the Flatbush Gas Co., still retaining his 
position with the Brooklyn Union Gas Co. 
He is the author of the following articles : 
" Electrolysis, The Effect of Stray Trolley- 
Currents," 5/cz^c«.y Institute Indicator, yLVlll, 
No. 2 ; " Remedy for Electrolytic Damage to 
Mains," Progressive Age, XX, No. 24. 

In 1900 Mr.. McGowan was instrumental 
with two or three others, in forming a Uni- 




H. E. McGowan 

versity Glee Club in Brooklyn to be a 
nucleus for a University Club similar to that 
in Manhattan. The University Club of 
Brooklyn, of which he is a member, was in- 
corporated July 18, 1901. He is also a mem- 
ber of the Crescent Athletic Club and of the 
Beta Theta Pi fraternity. 



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MacGregor, Willard Holmes (M.E., '96), 
was born in New York city May 3, 1865. 
Previous to 1896 he studied at the College of 




W. H. MacGregoe 

the City of New York and was a teacher in 
the New York schools. He was designer 
and draughtsman with Cary T. Hutchinson, 
Ph.D., consulting engineer, his work con- 
sisting of designs for aerial and underground 
lines for the transmission of power from 
Lachine Rapids to Montreal (a three-phase 
alternating current being used), 1896-97; 
assistant superintendent with the Ward & 
Leonard Electric Co., 1897-99 5 designing 
and superintending the construction of rheo- 
stats, preparing estimates, and attending to 
correspondence and to the illustration and 
publication of the catalogues of this com- 
pany. He also made working drawings for 
the Ward & Leonard Electric Co.'s new 
double-pole circuit-breaker. In 1898 he was 
appointed New York agent for the company. 
He was general Eastern agent, with head- 
quarters in New York, for the Cutler Ham- 
mer Co., Chicago, manufacturers of rheo- 
stats, 1899-1901, and has been assistant man- 
ager in the New York sales office of the 
Westinghouse Electric & Manufacturing Co. 
from 1901 to date; from June, 1902, being 
in charge of detail department sales. He 
contributed an article on " Test of an Otis 
Electric Elevator with Leonard Motor-Con- 
trol System " to the Electrical Engineer, 



July 29, 1896, and an article on " A Method 
of Determining the Indicated Horse-Power 
of an Engine Under Varying Load," to 
Power, October, 1896. He is a member of 
the American Institute of Electrical Engi- 
neers ; the New York Electrical Society ; the 
Mendelssohn Glee Club; the Musical Art 
Society; the New Rochelle Yacht Club; and 
of the Tau Beta Pi fraternity. 

Mr. MacGregor is the son of Henry and 
Mary (Holmes) MacGregor. His father is 
of Scotch descent, and his mother is of early 
New England ancestry. He married B. 
Helen MacDonald, September 18, 1901. 

Machold, Charles Emmet (M.E., '85), 
was born in Hoboken, N. J., December 28, 
1864. He was educated at Hoboken Acad- 
emy and at Stevens High School ; was in the 
draughting-room and shops of the Delaware, 
Lackawanna, & Western Railroad, East 
Buffalo, N. Y., 1885-87; and was with 
Stokes & Parrish, Philadelphia, 1887-88. 
During the four years succeeding 1889 he 
was draughtsman and chief draughtsman 
with the Link-Belt Engineering Co., Nice- 
town, Philadelphia, Pa., and at New York. 
He was associated with the firm of Burhorn 
& Granger, as constructing engineer, and 




C. E. Machold 

then as general manager of its Philadelphia 
office, until 1901. He designed and installed 
for them complete steam and electric-light- 



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ing plants, including boilers, stacks, engines, 
steam heating, dynamos, etc. In 1901 he 
retired from the firm, which then became 
known as the A. D. Granger Co., Mr. Mac- 
hold retaining charge of the Philadelphia 
office as before. On July i, 1903, he severed, 
this connection to enter into partnership with 
Mr. A. H. Riddell, under the firm name of 
Machold & Riddell, contracting engineers, 
of Philadelphia^ Pa. Mr. Machold is a mem- 
ber of the American Society of Mechanical 
Engineers ; of the Engineers' Club of Phila- 
delphia; the Mount Airy, Belfield, and Tor- 
resdale country clubs, and of the Delta Tau 
Delta fraternity. 

Mr. Machold is the son of Charlotte and 
William Machold. Pie married Martha 
Deas Mecke, April 29, 1903. 

Mackenzie, William Percival (M.E., '93), 
was born in New York city April 12, 1871. 
He was assistant engineer with the New 
York Steam Co., 1893-96; chief engineer at 
the Bayonne (N. J.) Refinery, Standard Oil 
Co., 1896, where, besides having charge of 
the entire 12,000 horse-power steam plant, 
he was also engineer of construction and 
had charge of the erection of a new refinery 
of the same capacity as the old one, upon 
the completion of which he went as sales- 
man with the Harrisburg Foundry & Ma- 
chine Co., Harrisburg, Pa., from which 
position he rose to that of assistant manager 
of the company at Harrisburg, and later was 
made manager of the New York office. In 
1902 he formed a partnership with A. B. 
Quarrier which in 1903 was incorporated as 
Mackenzie, Quarrier, & Ferguson with 
offices in New York, acting as representa- 
tives of the Harrisburg Foundry & Machine 
Co., and other manufacturers, as well as 
doing a general engineering business. His 
graduating thesis, prepared in conjunction 
with Messrs. H. E. Griswold and Adolph G. 
Hupfel, on a " Test of the New York Hygeia 
Ice-Making Plant," was published in the 
Sfcz'cns Indicator, XI, i. He is a member 
of the Engineers' Club and of the Chi Psi 
fraternity. 

Mr. Mackenzie is the son of Mortimer and 
Harriette Price Williams Mackenzie. He 
married Clementina Rittenhouse Cissel, May 
23, 1899, and they have one child, Sidney 
Thompson Mackenzie. 



Mackiewicz, Victor (M.E., '84), was em- 
ployed in the workshops, erecting-floor and 
draughting-room of Henry R. Worthington, 
pump and pumping-engine builder. New 
York, 1884-90. He was also engaged upon 
the introduction of the jig and template sys- 
tem for duplicating pump parts in conjunc- 
tion with the development of the piece-work 
system throughout the works. As erecting 
engineer he designed and erected large 
waterworks installations, one of the largest 
being the 30,000,000-gallon plant, complete 
with boiler installation, at Minneapolis, 
Minn. He was with the Gauley Coke & Coal 
Land Association of West Virginia, in 
charge of geological and topographical sur- 
veys of Greenbrier County, W. Va., locating 
bituminous coal beds and establishing prop- 
erties as a preliminary to opening mines and 
planning railroad communication, 1890-92; 
and with the Atlantic Refining Co., Point 
Breeze, Philadelphia, Pa., manufacturers of 
petroleum products, 1892-1902, at first tak- 
ing charge of the investigation and design- 
ing of pumping machinery to handle petro- 
leum products, and then in charge of the 
steam boiler department and the distribution 
of steam throughout the company's yards. 
He was next installed as mechanical engi- 
neer to the company, designing and erecting 
manufacturing plants to handle the products 
made from crude oil, and was also placed in 
charge of the draughting-room and of the 
general testing work involving engineering 
problems. In addition he made tests to de- 
termine the coal products to be purchased by 
the company for the steam department. In 
1902 he resigned on account of ill health, and 
devoted himself to further study in mechani- 
cal and electrical engineering until his death, 
which occurred in 1903. He was a member 
of the American Society of Mechanical En- 
gineers. 

McLean, Embury (M.E., '88), was pro- 
prietor of ^a power station, and consulting 
engineer in New York city, 1889-91 ; a mem- 
ber of the McLean Engineering Co., con- 
sulting- and contracting engineers. New 
York, 1891-97; and is now general manager 
of the Engineering Co., New York, consult- 
ing and contracting engineers, and making a 
specialty of the McLean system of automatic 
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boiler plants^ of which system Mr. Embury 
McLean is the inventor. 

McLean, North (M.E., '85), has been with 
Kessler & Co., New York, since 1886. 

McNaughton, Malcolm (M.E., '83), was 
born in Minnford, N. Y., August 12, i860. 
He was with the Pintsch Lighting Co., New 
York, 1883-84; with the United States Tor- 
sion Balance & Scale Co., New York, 1885- 
87; and has been with the Joseph Dixon 
Crucible Co., Jersey City, N. J., from 1887 
to date, being now its department superin- 
tendent. He contributed a very complete 
article on " Graphite " to the Stevens Insti- 
tute Indicator, January, 1901. He is a mem- 
ber of the American Society for Testing Ma- 
terials and of the Jersey City Club. 

Mr. McNaughton is the son of Daniel C. 
and Margaret (Blue) McNaughton. He 
married Catherine McVean in 1890, and they 




Malcolm McNaughton 

have two children, Cameron Malcolm, and 
George Douglas McNaughton. 

MacVeety, F. N. (M.E., '95), was with 
A. R. Wolff, consulting mechanical engineer. 
New York, 1895-97; chief engineer with the 
F. N. Pierce Engineering Co., New York, 
1897-98; employed on "Power," 1899; with 
the Baldwin Engineering Co., New York, 
1900; and was engaged with the Board 



of Education, 1901-02. In the latter year 
he resigned to seek health in Arizona ; his 
death occurred at Suffern, N. Y., October 
12, 1904. 

Magee, Frank Allen (M.E., '83), was born 
in New York city August 8, 1862. He was 




F. A. Magee 

employed in the engineering departments oE 
the New York Steam Heating Co., and the 
Edison Electric Light Co., and with Buck & 
McNulty, engineers. He has also been con- 
nected with different companies in the ca- 
pacity of sales agent : for several years with 
E. S. Greeley & Co., New York ; then with 
the Engineering & Equipment Co., New 
York and Boston ; and is at present with the 
Revere Rubber Co., New York. He is a 
member of the Beta Theta Pi fraternity. 

Mr. Magee is the son of Frank Allen and 
Jennie Magee. He married Clara Nairne 
Burt, February 22, 1892, and two children 
were born to them, Frances Adelaide (de- 
ceased 1897), and Burt Allen Magee. 

Magee, William Adam (M.E., '88), was 
born in San Francisco, Cal., June 21, 1865. 
He entered the real-estate business in 1888, 
and has been a member of the firm of 
Thomas Magee & Sons, San Francisco, Cal., 
since 1894. Since the death of his father in 
1902 he and his two brothers have conducted 
the business, which was established in 1866. 



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The firm owns and edits the " San Francisco 
Real Estate Circular/' which has been pub- 
lished continuously since 1866. He is a 




W. A. Magee 

member of the Pacific Union Club, the Uni- 
versity Club, and of the Beta Theta Pi fra- 
ternity; and is a director of the San Fran- 
cisco Savings Union and of other local 
corporations. 

Mr. Magee is. the son of Thomas and Eliz- 
abeth English Magee. He married Harriet 
L. Hush in 1892, and they have three chil- 
dren, William A., Jr., Harry H., and Eliza- 
beth English Magee. 

Magie, W. E. (M.E., '00), was with the 
Hasbrouck Motor Co., Piermont, N. Y., 
1900 ; draughtsman for the New York Tele- 
phone Co., 1900-02; and is now with the 
. Bucyrus Co., South Milwaukee, Wis. 

Magovern, Edward Everett (M.E., "81), 
was born in Hoboken, N. J-. March 16, 1861. 
He was assistant in the Mechanical Labora- 
tory of Stevens Institute, 1881-82; with the 
New York Steam Co., first as assistant en- 
gineer, and then as assistant manager, being- 
engaged upon the development of the meter 
system and the underground distribution of 
steam through New York city, 1882-87; was 
consulting engineer, New York, 1887-90; 
superintendent and manager of the Edison 
Phonograph Toy Manufacturing Co., 1890- 



92 ; and manager of the Branford works and 
manager of product for the Stamford and 
Branford works of the Yale & Towne Man- 
ufacturing Co., 1892. He was general sales 
manager for the Yale & Towne company, 
1900-03; and has been commissioner of 
the Contract Association from 1903 to date. 
Jointly with T. Scanlan, he took out a patent 
for a wrought face lock in 1894. He con- 
tributed a paper to the American Society of 
Civil Engineers on " The Theory and Prac- 
tice of Aqua Ammonia Engines," and an 
article on " The Most Economical Elevator " 
to the Stevens Indicator, IV, 47. 

Mr. Magovern is the son of John and Eliz- 
abeth A. Magovern. He married Hortense 
Zacharie, June 20, 1891, and they have three 
children, Everett Z., Beatrice M., and John 
E. Magovern. 

Magruder, William Thomas (M.E., '81), 
was born in Baltimore, Md., April 22, 1861. 
He was with the Campbell Printing Press 
& Manufacturing Co., Taunton, Mass., 1881- 
85; at Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore, 
1886-87; chief chemist with the Baltimore & 
Ohio Railroad Co., Mount Clare, Baltimore, 
1887; Instructor in, and Adjunct Professor 
of. Mechanical Engineering, Vanderbilt Uni- 




W. T. Magruder 

versity, Nashville, Tenn., 1887-96; chief of 
machinery at the Tennessee Centennial Ex- 
position, 1896; and has been Professor of 



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Mechanical Engineering at the Ohio State 
University, Columbus, O., from 1896 to date. 
Prof. Magruder has published occasional 
articles in the engineering press; a paper 
on " Gas-Engine Hot-Tube Ignition " in the 




W. E. Mallalieu 

Transactions of the American Society of 
Mechanical Engineers, Vol. XXI, and has 
contributed papers to the American Associa- 
tion for the Advancement of Science, the 
Society for the Promotion of Engineering 
Education, and the Engineers' Club of Co- 
lumbus. He is a Fellow of the American 
Association for the Advancement of Science 
and secretary of the Engineering Section ; 
a member of the American Society of Me- 
chanical Engineers; the American Institute 
of Mining Engineers ; the Society for the 
Promotion of Engineering Education ; the 
Columbus (O.) Engineers' Club (president, 
1904) ; the Engineers' Association of the 
South ; and of the Beta Theta Pi fraternity. 
Professor Magruder is the son of William 
Thomas and Mary (Hamilton) Magruder. 
His father belonged to the Maryland and 
Virginia branch of the Magruder family, 
was an alumnus of West Point, and was 
killed in action at Gettysburg. His mother 
is a daughter of William Hamilton of Balti- 
more, Md., a noted educator in his day. The 
subject of this sketch married Ellen Fall 
Malone, daughter of T. H. Malone, Nash- 
ville, Tenn., June 18, 1891, and they have 



two children, William Thomas, Jr., and 
Thomas Malone Magruder. 

Main, Thomas J. (M.E., '97), has been 
draughtsman with the Kinetic Manufactur- 
ing Co. ; in the employ of the Clonbrock 
Steam Boiler Co., Brooklyn, N. Y. ; in the 
engineering department of the A. A. Griffing 
Iron Co., Jersey City, N. J. ; assistant to the 
consulting engineer of the same company. 
New York ; and is now with the Baldwin 
Engineering Co., New York. 

Mallalieu, Wilbur Emerson (M.E., '97), 
was born in Jersey City, N. J., February 16, 
1874; son of Frank A. and Sarah Frances 
(Wickham) Mallalieu. He was in the shops, 
draughting-room, and erecting department 
of the Henry R. Worthington Steam Pump 
Co., Brooklyn, N. Y., 1897-99; i" the engi- 
neering department of the Western Electric 
Co., New York, 1899-1900 ; and has been 
assistant electrical inspector with the Na- 
tional Board of Fire Underwriters, New 
York, since 1900. He is an associate member 
of the American Institute of Electrical Engi- 
neers, and a member of Theta Xi fraternity. 

Manley, Robert Early (M.E., '00), was 
born in Washington, D. C, April 19, 1875. 




R. E. Manley 

He graduated from Swarthmore College 
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1897. He was with the Seaboard Steel 
Casting Co., Chester, Pa., 1900; draughts- 
man with the York Manufacturing Co., 
York, Pa., 1900-01 ; manager of the PuUman 
Automatic Ventilator Co., 1901, in which 
capacity he equipped and started the factory 
and developed every branch of the business ; 
erecting engineer for the United Gas Im- 
provement Co., Philadelphia, Pa., 1902; and 
is now general manager of the Hanover 
Light, Heat & Power Co., Hanover, Pa. He 
is a member of the Phi Kappa Psi fraternity. 
Mr. Manley is the son of H. De Haven, 
U.S.N., and Hallie J. (Early) Manley. He 
married Anna K. Himes, June 6, 1902. 



Martin, Kingsley Leverich (M.E., '92), 
was transit-man with the East River Bridge 
Co., Brooklyn, N. Y., 1892; assistant engi- 
neer on the New York and Brooklyn Bridge, 
in charge of the erection of the Brooklyn 
terminal, 1892-96; assistant engineer on the 
East River Bridge, 1896-1901, resident engi- 
neer, 1901-04, and is now engineei^-in-charge. 
He is a member of the American Society of 
Civil Engineers, and a member of the Brook- 
lyn Engineers' Club. 

Martin, Louis A., Jr. (M.E., '00), Instruc- 
tor in Mathematics at Stevens Institute of 
Technology. For biography, see page 282. 



Manning, George Lincoln (M.E., '91), 
was born in Fitchburg, Mass, April 13, 1865. 
He was Instructor in Mathematics and 
Drawing at the Adelphi Academy, Brooklyn, 
N. Y., 1891-92; and Assistant Professor in 
Physics and Chemistry at Stevens Institute, 
1892-95. In 1895 he went to the Univer- 
sity of Berlin to study for the degree of 
Doctor of Philosophy, which he received in 
1900. Upon his return he was appointed 
Assistant in the Department of Physics at 
Cornell University, Ithaca, N. Y. In Sep- 
tember, 1902, he went to Robert College, 
Constantinople, to fill the Chair of Physics, a 
position which he now holds. 

Professor Manning is the son of Joseph E. 
and Hannah A. (Estabrook) Manning. The 
Mannings are descended from an ancient and 
noble family which took the name from 
Manning, Saxony, whence they went to Eng- 
land before the Conquest. They were early 
settlers in this country (Roxbury, 1634) and 
were prominent in the colonial and later 
wars. The subject of this sketch married 
Alice Washburn Heald, June 19, 1893. 

Martin, George W. (M.E., '99), was with 
the Edison Electric Illuminating Co., New 
York, 1899; assistant engineer with the 
Baldwin Engineering Co., heating and ven- 
tilating engineers and contractors, 1899- 
1901 ; with Evans, Almirall & Co., New 
York, 1901-02; with the W. D. Forbes Co., 
Hoboken, N. J., 1902-03; with the C. W. 
Hunt Co., West New Brighton, Staten Isl- 
and, N. Y., 1903-04; and has been associate 
editor on " The Electrical Age " since April, 
1904. 



Martin, Paul Justin (M.E., 
in Hoboken, N. J., Julv i( 



;), was born 
882 ; son of 




P. J. Martin 

Louis Adolphe and Pauline Justine Martin. 
His ancestors were of Huguenot origin, and 
his father was a native of Switzerland. He 
took the complete course at the Hoboken 
Academy, winning the Stevens Scholarship. 
Since graduation he has been employed at 
the Quintard Iron Works, New York. 

Martinez, Simeon (M.E., '85), was em- 
ployed as interpreter for Mr. Geo. H. Sisson, 
general manager of the International Com- 
pany of Mexico, 1885-86; salesman in the 
New York office of Eraser & Chalmers, Chi- 
cago, manufacturers of mining-machinery. 



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1887; buyer of machinery in the exporting 
department' of M. Echeverria & Co., 1888; 
engineer in charge of the machinery of F. 
Munguia & Sons, Industrial House, Mexico 
City, 1889-90; engineer with the Mexico 
City Gas & Electric Light Co., in charge of 
the manufacture of illuminating gas, 1890- 
92 ; consulting and erecting engineer for the 
Noria Alta Silver Mills, the Peregrain & El 
Tajo Mining Co., and J. B. Rocha's gold 
mine " El Monte," having charge of the 
erection of silver-mills, Cornish pumping- 
machinery, hoisting-engines, etc., and the 
general care and superintendence of machin- 
ery, 1893-95 ; i" partnership with F. Mun- 
guia in the manufacture of chocolates and 
candies, Mexico City, 1896; and has been 
consulting engineer at Guanajuato, Mex., 
and proprietor of " La Cruz Blanca " starch 
factory, from 1897 to date. 

Mathey, Edward D. (M.E., '94), was 
in the testing department of the General 
Electric Co., Lynn, Mass., 1894-95; in the 
repair shops of the North Hudson County 
Railway Co., West Hoboken, N. J., 1895-96; 
with the electrical engineer of the Metropoli- 
tan Street Railway Co., New York, 1896- 
1902 ; and has been assistant engineer with 
Westinghouse, Church, Kerr, & Co., New 
York, from 1902 to date. 



Co., Newark, N. J., 1896-99; and has been 
with the Isbell-Porter Co., Newark, N. J., 
from 1899 to date, being now first assistant 




W. C. Maul 

to the chief draughtsman. He is a member 
of the Tau Beta Pi fraternity. 

Mr. Maul is the son of William and Louisa 
Maul, both born in Germany. He married 
Florence Maude Mason, June 8, 1898, and 
they have one child, Gilbert Emerson Maul. 



Mathey, Henry Clarence (M.E., '97), was 
born in Hoboken, N. J., in 1875. He was 
with the Western Electric Co., New York, 
1897-99; in the electrical department of the 
Metropolitan Street Railway Co., New York, 
1899-1900; with the Chicago Motor Vehicle 
Co. and the Deering Harvester Co., Chicago, 
1900-02; and has been with the National 
Board of Fire Underwriters, New York, 
from 1902 to date. 

Maul, William Christian (M.E., "96), was 
born in New York city, March 18, 1874. His 
early education was received at a German 
school in New York, the Eastern public 
school and high school, East Orange, N. J., 
and at Stevens Preparatory School, Hoboken, 
N. J. He was engaged with the H. W. Johns 
Manufacturing Co., Brooklyn, N. Y., sur- 
veying and erecting their new dock, 1896; 
draughtsman and assistant to the superin- 
tending engineer of the Foster Engineering 



Maury, Dabney Herndon (M.E., '84), was 
born in Vicksburg, Miss., March 9, 1863. 
He entered the Junior class of Stevens In- 
stitute in 1882 after graduating from the 
Virginia Military Institute ; served as rod- 
man on surveys for a railroad bridge across 
the Ohio River at Point Pleasant, W. Va., 
during the summer vacation of 1881 ; was 
chief of party on preliminary surveys for the 
Brighthope Railway, near Richmond, Va., in 
the summer vacation of 1882; draughtsman 
with the Richmond Locomotive & Machine 
Co., Richmond, Va., during the summer va- 
cation of 1883 ; assistant to Prof. R. H. 
Thurston, in the Mechanical Laboratory of 
the Stevens Institute, 1884; engineer, located 
in Texas, for the Grand Belt Copper Co., of 
New York, 1884-85 ; principal assistant engi- 
neer of the Fort Worth & New Orleans Rail- 
way, Texas, 1885-86; superintendent of El 
Paso County surveys for the Southern Pacific 
Railway Co., 1886; engineer for James G. 



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Green, general manager of the Tolima, North 
Tohma, Organos, Socorro, and other gold 
and silver mines in the Republic of Colom- 




D. H. Maury 



bia, 1886-90; also local manager of the Or- 
ganos and Socorro mines, erecting the ma- 
chinery and building dams and ditches for 
the Silencio, Tetuan, and Colon mines. Dur- 
ing this period he also made examinations, 
plans, surveys, and estimates for a number of 
other mines, and did other engineering work. 
He was general manager for the Saldana 
Syndicate, Ltd., of Liverpool, in Tolima, Co- 
lombia, in charge of all its interests there, 
designing and constructing its dams, ditches, 
and entire plant, and operating its mines, 
1890-93; engineer and superintendent of the 
Peoria Water Co., Peoria, 111., 1893-94, and 
later engineer and superintendent for the re- 
ceiver of that company, 1894-98. Since 1893 
he has designed and constructed for the 
water company, two new pumping-plants on 
a system for which United States patents 
have been granted to him, and has been in 
charge of all the engineering work for the 
company and its receiver, and for the Peoria 
Waterworks Co., reorganized after the re- 
ceivership. In addition to this connection 
with the Peoria Waterworks Co., which he 
still retains, he has a large professional prac- 
tice, more especially in the line of water- 
works, hydraulic and steam power plants, 
and in electrolytic investigations, having es- 



tablished himself as a consulting engineer in 
1900. 

His patents include one on a fluid-distri- 
bution system 1897 ! ^"^ ^^ pumping-ma- 
chinery, 1900 ; and one on well inlets, 1902. 

He has presented papers to the American 
Waterworks Association and to the Illinois 
Society of Engineers and Surveyors, and 
has contributed articles to Engineering 
Nezvs, Municipal Engineering, and other 
journals. He is a member of the American 
Society of Mechanical Engineers ; the Ameri- 
can Society of Civil Engineers ; the Western 
Society of Engineers; the American Water- 
works Association; the Illinois Society of 
Engineers and Surveyors ; the Central States 
Waterworks Association, and of the Kappa 
x\lpha fraternity (Southern). 

Mr. Maury is the son of Dabney Herndon 
and Nannie Rose (Mason) Maury. His 
father's ancestors were of Huguenot and 
English descent ; those on his mother's side, 
principally Scotch-Irish. All were Virgin- 
ians for many generations. Nearly all of 
his father's people have been in the army 
or navy since Colonial times. Mr. Maury 
married Mary McCaw, April 26, 1893. They 
have one child living, Dabney Herndon 
Maury. Two are dead. 

Maxfield, Howard H. (M.E., '95), was 
born in Bloomfield, N. J., October 27, 1873. 
He received his early education principally 
in private schools. He was a student at 
the Pingry School, Elizabeth, N. J., for four 
years, and at Stevens School one year. He 
was special apprentice at the Meadows shops, 
of the Pennsylvania Railroad, near Jersey 
City, 1895-58; in the Altoona (Pa.) shops 
of the same company, 1898-1900; inspector 
in the office of the superintendent of motive 
power of the United Railroads of New Jer- 
sey Division of the Pennsylvania Railroad, 
Jersey City, N. J., 1900-01 ; assistant road 
foreman of engines on the New York Divi- 
sion of the above part of the Pennsylvania 
Railroad system, 1901-02 ; assistant master 
mechanic at the same company's Camden 
shops, 1902-03 ; and has been assistant engi- 
neer of motive power in the United Rail- 
roads of New Jersey Division, with office 
in Jersey City, N. J., from 1903 to date. 
He is author of the article, " A Scheme for 
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paratively Short Distances in Fast Express 
Service," Stevens Indicator, October, 1898. 
He is a member of the American Society of 




H. H. Maxfield 

Mechanical Engineers, the New York Rail- 
road Club, and the Theta Nu Epsilon fra- 
ternity. 

Mr. Maxfield is the son of Charles W. and 
Ellen S. Maxfield. He married Mary E. 
Bailey, April 25, 1901. 

Mayer, Alfred Goldsborough (M.E., "89), 
was born in Frederick, Md., April 16, 1868 
He was Assistant in Physics at Clark Uni- 
versity, Worcester, Mass., 1889-90; held the 
same position at the University of Kansas, 
1890-92; and was assistant to Prof. Alex- 
ander Agassiz, and in charge of Radiates at 
the Museum of Comparative Zoology, Har- 
vard University, 18^3-1900. In 1897 \\2 
received the degree of Doctor of Science 
from Harvard University, and three years 
later became curator of Natural Science, and 
afterwards curator in chief, at the museum 
of the Brooklyn Institute of Arts and 
Sciences. In 1904 he became director of the 
Marine Biological Laboratory at Tortugas, 
Fla., established by the Carnegie Institution. 
He accompanied Prof. Agassiz as assistant 
upon scientific expeditions to the Bahamas 
in 1892, the barrier reef of Australia, 1895; 
the Fiji Islands, 1897-98; and on the cruise 
of the " Albatross " through the tropical Pa- 



cific Ocean, 1899-1900; and has travelled 
90,000 miles on scientific expeditions within 
the tropics. 

He has published the following scientific 
researches : 

"Radiation and Absorption of Heat by 
Leaves," American Journal of Science, 1893. 

"Account of Some Medus;c Obtained in the 
Bahamas," Bull. Mus. Conip. Zool}, 1894. 

"Development of the Wing Scales and Their 
Pigment in Butterflies and Moths," Ibid., 1896. 

"On the Color and Color-Patterns of Moths 
and Butterflies," Ibid., 1897. 

"Development of Color in Moths and Butter- 
flies," Woods Holl Lectures, 1899. 

"On the Mating Instinct in Moths," Annals 
and Magazine of Natural History, London, 1900 ; 
"Psyche," February, 1900. 

"Descriptions of New and Little-Known 
Medusae from the Western Atlantic," Bull. Mus. 
Comp. Zool., 1900. 

"Some Medusse from the Tortugas, Florida," 
Ibid., 1900. 

"An Atlantic ' Palolo,' " Ibid., 1900. 

"The Variations of a Newly Arisen Species 
of Medusa." Brooklyn Institute Museum, Sci. 
Bull.\ 1 90 1. 

"Variations of Genus Partula of Tahiti," 
Mem. Mus. Comp. Zool.'-', 1902. 

"Effects of Natural Selection and Race Ten- 
dency upon the Coloration of Lepidoptera," 
Brooklyn Institute Museum, Sci. Bull., 1902. 

"The Atlantic 'Palolo,' " Brooklyn Institute 
Museum, Ibid., 1902. 

In connection with Prof. Alexander Agas- 
siz he has written : 

" On Dactylometra," Bull. Mus. Comp. Zool., 
1898. 

" On Some Medusa from Atistralia," Ibid., 
1898. 

" Acalephs from the Fiji Islands," Ibid., 
XXXII, No. 9. 

" Medusas from the Tropical Pacific," Mem. 
Mus. Comp. Zool., 1902. 

" Medusffi of the Atlantic Coast of North 
America," Ibid. 

He is a member of the American Associa- 
tion for the Advancement of Science; the 
American Society of Zoologists ; the Boston 
Society of Natural History ; the New York 
Zoological Society ; the New York Academy 



1" Bulletin of the Museum of Comparative Zoology," 
Harvard College. 

2 "Science Bulletin." 

^"Memoirs of the Museum of Comparative Zoolo- 
gy," Harvard College. 



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of Sciences ; the Cambridge Entomological 
Society ; and the American Society of Natur- 
alists. 

Mr. Mayer is the son of Alfred Marshall 




A. G. Mayer 

and Catherine D. (Goldsborough) Mayer. 
His family is of German origin. Its first 
member resident in America was Christian 
Mayer, who came here in 1784, and was con- 
sul-general of Wiirtemburg. Alfred Mar- 
shall Mayer was Professor of Physics in 
Stevens Institute from 1873 to 1897. Al- 
fred G. Mayer married Harriet Randolph 
Hyatt, August 2y, 1900, and they have one 
child, Alpheus Hyatt Mayer. 

Meding, Ernest (M.E., '00), born in Pater- 
son, N. J., January 16, 1879; son of Charles 
E. and K. L. (Aplin) Meding. He was 
Instructor during the Supplementary Term 
at Stevens Institute, 1900 ; and has been with 
the Meding Manufacturing Co., Paterson, 
N. J., 1900 to date. He is a member of the 
Sigma Nu fraternity. 

Meeks, Howard Victor (M.E., '01), was 
born in Union Hill, N. J., April 11, 1878; 
son of Hamilton V. and Euretta E. (Gard- 
ner) Meeks. On his father's side his an- 
cestry can be traced back to John Meeks, 
captain of a Revolutionary militia company- 
called " Hearts of Oak," whose wife, Helene 
Molineaux. acted as interpreter between 



Washington and Lafayette at Morristown, 
N. J. On his mother's side he is descended 
from Thomas Gardner, one of three brothers 
who came to this country from England in 
1600. He was Instructor during the Supple- 
mentary Term at Stevens Institute, 1901 ; 
assistant draughtsman with W. D. Forbes 
& Co., Hoboken, N. J., 1901-04; and since 
June of the latter year has been associated 
with Mr. Frank Hermance under the firm 
name of Meeks-Hermance Co., electrical and 
mechanical engineers. Union Hill, N. J. 
Since 1902 he has been a director in the 
Gardner & Meeks Co., Union Hill, N. J. He 
is a member of the Sigma Nu and Tau Beta 
Pi fraternities. 




H. V. Meeks 

He married Ethel Colon, of New York 
city, November 4, 1903. 

Meister, Conrad Ludwig (M.E., '97), was 
born in Brooklyn, N. Y., June 22, 1876. He 
was rodman with the Metropolitan Traction 
Co., 1897; and was engaged with the Erie 
Railroad from 1897 to 1901, as follows: 
special apprentice in the shops at Susquehan- 
na, Pa., 1897-99; in charge of the dynamom- 
eter car, and for a time on the road, mak- 
ing engine tests of various kinds, and also as 
draughtsman in the mechanical engineer's 
office, 1899-1901. He then became assistant 
chief draughtsman with the Union Pacific 
Railroad, Omaha. Neb., 1901 ; draughtsman 



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at the Grand Central office of the New York 
Central Railroad, New York, 1902; and 
chief drauq-htsman with the Atlantic Coast 




C. L. Meister 

Line Railroad, Wilmington, N. C, which 
position he has held from 1902 to date. He 
is the designer of Beck & Meister's japan- 
ning ovens, a number of which are now be- 
ing built in Germany. He is a member of 
the New York Railroad Club. 

Mr. Meister is the son of Conrad and 
Elizabeth Meister. He married Esther Fred- 
riksson, December 29, 1902. 

Mendoza, Luis (M.E., '90), was with 
R. D. Wood & Co., Camden Iron Works, 
Camden, N. J., 1891-93 ; and has been gen- 
eral manager of the Oaxaca Electric Light 
Co., Oaxaca, Mexico, from 1893 to date. 

Merkel, Arthur Ernest (M.E., '93), was born 
in Cleveland, O., July 21, 1872; son of Louis 
J. and Augusta Merkel. He served in Troop 
A, 1st Ohio Volunteer Cavalry, as a private, 
during the Spanish-American War. He was 
assistant superintendent of the White Cloud 
Copper Mining Co., Lovelocks, Nevada, 
1893; with the Chicago, Milwaukee, & St. 
Paul Railroad, Milwaukee, Wis., 1893-94; 
assistant superintendent of the Fairfield Cop- 
per Co., of Connecticut, 1894-95; and has 
been a patent solicitor and expert from 1895 
to date. Li 1904 he took out a patent on a 



log-loading machine. He is a member of the 
University Club of Cleveland; of Troop A, 
Ohio National Guard; of the Beta Theta Pi 
and Theta Nu Epsilon fraternities ; and a 
member and former adjutant of the R. E. 
Burdick Command No. 114, Spanish War 
Veterans. 

Merriam, Lyman Lyon (M.E., '00), was 
born in Lyons Falls, N. Y., November 4, 
1877. He attended Dr. Holbrook's Military 
School, Ossining-on-Hudson, from which he 
entered Stevens. He was engaged in the 
lumber business and railroad location work 
at Lyons Falls, N. Y., 1900-01 ; with Cham- 
bers & Hone, consulting engineers, New 
York, as transit-man on a double-track elec- 
tric line from Johnstown to Schenectady, 
and in charge of construction of the exten- 
sion of the Amsterdam street railroad from 
Rockton to Hagaman, N. Y., 1901-03; me- 
chanical engineer for the John J. Crooke Co., 
tin-foil manufacturers. New York, 1903 ; in 
charge of construction of the Lyons Falls & 
Port Leyden Electric Light Co.'s plant at 
Lyonsdale, N. Y., 1903-04; and is now en- 
gineer for the O'Rourke Engineering Con- 
struction Co., New York. He is a member 
of the Delta Tau Delta fraternity. 

Mr. Merriam is the son of Charles Collins 




L. L. Merriam 

and Florence L (Lyon) Merriam. He mar- 
ried Delia Brandreth, September 30, 1903. 



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Merrick, Herbert Lansing (M.E., '92), 
was born in Brooklyn, N. Y., April 16, 1873. 
He was mechanical engineer with the New 
York, Ontario & Western Railway, Middle- 
town, N. Y., 1892-96; assistant engineer and 
chief draughtsman with the Sprague Elec- 
tric Elevator Co., New York, 1896-1900; 
construction engineer with the Marine En- 
gine & Machine Co., New York, 1900-01 ; 




H. L. Merrick 

and has been with the Robins Conveying Belt 
Co., New York, since 1901, now holding the 
position of shop superintendent. 

Mr. Merrick is the son of Charles and 
Anna Merrick. He married Katherine A. 
Selleck, July 20, 1898. 

Merritt, Charles Fowler (M.E., '01), was 
born in New York city August 14, 1877; son 
of Mortimer C. and Carrie E. (Quimby) 
Merritt. He has been mechanical engineer 
with Hurd & Co., engineers and manufactur- 
ers, New York, from 1901 to date. He is a 
member of the New York Railroad Club, 
and of the Alpha Delta Phi and Tau Beta Pi 
fraternities. 

Merritt, C. H., Jr. (M.E., '93), has been 
with Charles H. Merritt & Son, hat-manu- 
facturers, Danbury, Conn., from 1893 to date. 

Merritt, George W. (M.E., '90), son of 
Charles H. and Luana K. Merritt, has been 



with Charles H. Merritt & Son, hat-manu- 
facturers, Danbury, Conn., from 1890 to 
date, and is now a member of the firm. 

Merritt, James Smith (M.E., '86), was born 
in Philadelphia, February 7, 1864. After 
graduating from the William Penn Charter 
School, Philadelphia, he spent a year in 
travel and study in Europe before entering 
Stevens Institute. He was employed in the 
United States Geological Survey, engaged 
upon triangulation work in Wyoming and 
Montana, 1886; in the shops of Bement, 
Miles & Co., Philadelphia, 1886-87; assistant 
engineer with the Welsbach Incandescent 
Light Co., engaged upon the development of 
the Welsbach light at Gloucester, N. J., 
1887-88; secretary and treasurer of the Rut- 
ter & Merritt, Ltd., Architectural Ironworks, 
Philadelphia, engaged in the design and 
manufacture of structural and ornamental 
ironwork and " expanded metal " fireproof- 
ing of buildings, 1888-93, subsequently 
(1893-1900) holding the same position with 
its successors, Merritt & Co., Inc. Since 
1900 he has been president and general man- 
ager of that company. 

Mr. Merritt has taken out United States 
patents on a steel post, 1890; an automatic 
weighing-machine, 1891 ; a corner plaster 
strip, 1897 ; ceiling or wall constructions, 1898, 
and a slide scale, 1902. He is a member of 
the Franklin Institute, Philadelphia; the En- 
gineers' Club of Philadelphia; the Rittenhouse 
and Huntington Valley Country clubs, at 
Philadelphia ; and of the Theta Xi fraternity. 

Mr. Merritt is the son of Daniel S. and 
Emma A. Merritt. He is descended from 
Thomas Merritt, who settled at Rye, West- 
chester Co., N. Y., in 1684. He married 
Gertrude R. Morris, January 28, 1891, and 
they have two children, Morris H., and 
James S. Merritt, Jr. 

Messimer, Hillary C. (M.E., '96), was a 
student in the New York Law School, 1896- 
98, receiving the degree of Bachelor of Laws 
cuui laiide in 1898. He was admitted to the 
Bar of the State of New York in July, 1898; 
engaged in the practice of law with Kerr, 
Page, & Cooper, making a specialty of pat- 
ent law, 1898-1900; and has been associated 
with John R. Bennett, New York, in the 
practice of patent law, from 1900 to date. 



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Messimer, Robert L. (M.E., '97), was me- 
chanical engineer in the motive-power de- 
partment of the Calumet & Hecla Mining 
Co., Calumet, Mich., 1897-99; ^"d h^s since 
been engaged in experimental engineering 
work in New York. 

Metcalfe, George Richmond (M.E., '86), 
was born in Brooklyn, N. Y., in 1865. He 
attended the Brooklyn Polytechnic Institute 
before entering Stevens. He was with the 
Daft Electric Railway Co., 1888-90; the 
Edison General Electric Co., 1890-92; con- 
sulting electrical engineer, 1892-93; editor of 
"Electricity," New York, 1893-97; member 
of the firm of Metcalfe & Moeller, engaged 
in electrical machinery and incandescent 
lamp repairing. New York, 1897-99 > s^^*^" 
trical editor of the " Street Railway Review," 
Chicago, 1 899-1904; and editor of the " Tech- 
nical World," Chicago, 1904 to date. 

Mr. Metcalfe is the son of George and 
Elizabeth T. (Root) Metcalfe, and of English 
descent. He married Grace D. Brown, No- 
vember 8, 1899, and they have two children, 
Richmond and Winthrop Metcalfe. 

Meyer, Ernest Henry (M.E., 97), was 
born in Jersey City, N. J., November 4, 1875; 
son of R. M. and E. C. H. Meyer. He has 
been assistant inspector in the electric depart- 
ment of the National Board of Fire Under- 
writers; accountant for Zimmermann & 
Meyer; draughtsman with the Allentown 
Rolling-Mills and the New York, Susque- 
hanna & Western Railroad ; machinist, tester, 
and draughtsman with the Central Railroad 
of New Jersey ; and inspector and draughts- 
man for the Automobile Co. 

Meyer, Henry Coddingtcn, Jr. (M.E., '92), 
was born in Orange, N. J., November 28, 
1870. He visited places of engineering in- 
terest in Europe during the summer of 1892; 
was with George H. Barrus, M.E., of Bos- 
ton, Mass., as assistant in designing and 
testing- engine and boiler plants for textile 
mills, street railway and lighting stations, 
manufacturing establishments, etc., 1892-93; 
represented the " Engineering Record " in 
an editorial capacity at the World's Colum- 
bian Exposition, Chicago, and assisted Mr. 
Barrus, who was one of the board of judges 
in Machinery Hall, in testing engines and 



boilers, 1893; was on the editorial staff of 
the steam engineering, heating, and ventila- 
tion department of the " Engineering Rec- 
ord " 1893-1902, and is now practising as 




II. C. Meyer, Jr. 

consulting engineer in New York. He has 
l:)een retained by the War Department to de- 
sign and superintend the construction of a 
heating and lighting station to be erected 
at West Point, N. Y., as part of the exten- 
sive improvements to be made at the United 
States Military Academy. 

He read a paper on " The Ventilation and 
Heating of Tall Buildings " before the Amer- 
ican Society of Heating and Ventilating En- 
gineers, 1899. In addition to his editorial 
work on the " Engineering Record," Mr. 
Meyer is the author of a book on " Steam 
Power Plants, Their Design and Construc- 
tion." He is a member of the American So- 
ciety of Mechanical Engineers ; an associate 
of the American Society of Civil Engineers; 
a member of the American Society of Heat- 
ing and Ventilating Engineers ; the Engi- 
neers' Club of New York ; and of the Military 
Order of the Loyal Legion. 

Mr. Meyer is the son of Henry C. and 
Charlotte (Seaman) Meyer. He married 
Louise Griffen Underbill, November 18, 1896, 
and they have one child, Henry C. Meyer, 3d. 

Meystre, Frederic Julien (M.E., '93), was 
born in Hoboken, N. J., November 7, 1872. 



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He was with the United Gas Improvement 
Co., at the Paterson Works, 1893-94; and 




F. J. Meystre 

has been member of the firm of Louis Mey- 
stre & Son, architects, at Hoboken, N. J. 
from 1894 to date. He is a member of the 
Board of Managers of the Hoboken Bank for 
Savings. 

Mr. Meystre is the son of Francis Louis 
and Marie Louise (Charles) Meystre. He 
married Bertha Whilldin, October 22, 1902. 

Miller, Alten S. (M.E., '88), was born in 
Richmond, Va., Octol^er 6, 1868. He was in 
the offices of the United Gas Lnprovement 
Co., Philadelphia, Pa., 1888; assistant super- 
intendent of the Omaha Gas Manufacturing 
Co., Omaha, Neb., 1888-92; Western sales 
agent for the United Gas Lnprovement Co., 
with headquarters in Chicago, 1892-94; en- 
gineer of works, and, later, chief engineer, 
of the East River Gas Co., Long Island City, 
N. Y., 1894-98. Part of the gas made at 
these works is sold in New York city, being 
conveyed through a tunnel no feet below 
mean low water of the East River, and is 
2,516 feet long between centres of shafts. 
About one third of its length is lined with 
cast-iron rings, the rest being driven through 
solid rock. The unlined portion is 10 feet 
wide and 8l: feet high, and is designed to 
give sufficient room for four 36-inch pipes 
and to still allow access to the pipes for in- 



spection and repairs. At present it contains 
two 36-inch pipes as shown in the illustra- 
tion. In May, 1898, he was appointed chief 
engineer of the New Amsterdam Gas Co., 
which was formed by the combination of the 
East River Gas Co. and the Equitable Gas 
Co., a position he held until 1902. He was 
consulting engineer for the Brooklyn Union 
Gas Co., 1900-01, and assistant engineer of 
the Consolidated Gas Co., 1901-02. During 
his connection with the above-mentioned 
New York gas companies he quadrupled the 
capacity of the New Amsterdam Gas Co.'s 
plant at Ravenswood (the East River Gas 
Co.), giving it a capacity of 25,000,000 cubic 
feet daily, making it the largest gas plant in 
the country. Mr. Miller also built for the 
company several holders having a capacity 
of about 14,000,000 cubic feet, and put in 
coal-handling machinery with a capacity of 
1,100 tons a day, all of which, with lesser 
work, has contributed to the development of 
plans which have given the New Amsterdam 
Gas Co. the largest and best equipped water- 
gas plant in the world. Lie has been mana- 
ger of the Consolidated Gas Co. of Baltimore 
City, Baltimore, Md., since November i, 1902, 




A. S. Miller 

at which time he severed his connections 
with New York companies. In his present 
capacity he has designed a gas plant to make 
all the gas for the city, and take the place 
of the old plants. 



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495 



He is the author of papers on " Oils for 
Gas-Enriching," read before the Ohio Gas 
Association, 1893 ; " Metal Gasholder Tanks," 
read before the Western Gas Association, 
1895; and of the following papers, read be- 
fore the American Gas Light Association : 
" The Separation of Water-Gas Tar," and 
" Report of Experiments on Interior Illum- 
ination," 1897; "Steam Consumption in a 
Water-Gas Plant," 1899; and "Report of 
Tests of the Edgerton Standard Burner," 



Mr. Miller is the son of William G. and 
Emma H. Miller. He married Virginia 
Bennett, January 14, 1902. 

Miller, Arthur Barrett (M.E., 97), was 
born in Winchester, Va., August 11, 1874. 
He was teacher of manual training and me- 
chanical drawing in the Ethical Culture 
Schools, New York, 1897-99; was engaged 
in erecting cotton-carding engines in the 
shops of the Saco & Pettee Machine Co., 




Tunnel of the East River Gas Company, New York 
A. S. MiUer 



1900. He also wrote an article on " Practi- 
cal Photometry," published in the Stevens 
Indicator, XIII, 205. 

He is a member of the American Gas 
Light Association, of which he was president 
in 1903 ; of the Western, Ohio, and Michigan 
Gas associations; the Engineers' Club of 
New York; the Society of Gas Lighting of 
New York; the Baltimore Country Club; 
and of the Chi Phi fraternity. He has served 
as Alumni Trustee of Stevens Institute. 



Newton Upper Falls, Mass., 1899; consult- 
ing engineer, ' engaged in surveying and 
engineering connected with the electrical de- 
velopment of water power, 1900; electrician 
in the testing department of the General 
Electric Co., Schenectady, 1901 ; engineer in 
charge of construction work for the United 
Engineering & Contracting Co., New York, 
1901-02, designing and erecting the motor- 
driven centrifugal pumping-plant for Dry 
Docks 2 and 3, at the New York Navy Yard; 



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architect and engineer of the machine-shop 
of the Warren Steam Pump Co., Warren, 
Mass., 1902-03 ; and has been assistant to the 
master mechanic of the Draper Co., Hope- 
dale, Mass., from 1903 to date. 

Mr. Miller is the son of William and Ade- 
laide Gerish (Barrett) Miller. His father's 
ancestors were early settlers in Virginia; 
the name being originally Millern ; the " n " 
was dropped about 1790. His mother's 
ancestors, named Eddy on the distaff side, 



England Association of Gas Engineers, Feb- 
ruary 19, 1901. He is a member of the 




A. B. Miller 

settled near Plymouth in 1630. He married 
Edith A. Canning, October 7, 1902. 

Miller, Carroll (M.E., '96), was born in 
Richmond, Va., March 18, 1875. He was 
with the Illinois Steel Co., Chicago, 1896-97; 
the New Amsterdam Gas Co., Long Island 
City, N. Y., 1897; in the London office of 
Humphreys & Glasgow, 1897-98; with the 
United Gas Improvement Co., Philadelphia, 
first as superintendent of the gasworks at Fall 
River, Mass., 1898-99, and next as super- 
intendent of the Market St. works, Newark, 
N. J., 1899-1901. He has been a consulting- 
engineer in Chicago, 111., from 1901 to date. 
During 1901-02 he made two trips to Japan 
to investigate the advisability of and make 
arrangements for installing gas in one of 
the large cities. He is the author of a paper 
on " The Proportion of Sulphur Removed in 
Each Purifying-Box," read before the New 




Carroll Miller 

American Gas Light Association ; the New 
England Association of Gas Engineers; the 
Western Gas Association; and of the Beta 
Theta Pi and Theta Nu Epsilon fraternities. 
Mr. Miller is the son of William G. and 
Emma H. Miller, both Virginians. He mar- 
ried Mary Emma Guffey, October 28, 1902. 

Miller, George Hope (M.E., '92), was born 
in Orange, N. J., July 29, 1869; son of 
Thomas and Marion Downey Miller. He 
travelled in Europe for two years and a half, 
1883-85, making Stuttgart his headquarters, 
and studying in the Polytechnic of that city. 
After graduation he was connected with a 
drop-forging concern in Brooklyn, N. Y., 
1892; inspector of manufacturing concerns 
for fire-insurance purposes, with the Middle 
States Inspection Bureau, 1893-98; special 
agent of the Netherlands Fire Insurance Co., 
1898-1900; and has been a special agent of 
the Agricultural Insurance Co., for the States 
of Pennsylvania, New Jersey, Delaware, 
Maryland, and the District of Columbia, with 
headquarters at Philadelphia, Pa., from 1900 
to date. He is a Master Mason and a mem- 
ber of the Delta Tau Delta fraternity. 

Miller, Henry J. (M.E., '84), was a mem- 
ber of the firm of Crane & Miller, patent 



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solicitors, Newark, N. J., 1884-93. I" 1893 
Mr. Crane withdrew, Mr. Miller continuing 
the business until 1896. He then assumed 
charge of the patent department of the 
Singer Manufacturing Co., Elizabeth, N. J., 
which position he holds at present. 




G. H. Miller 

t'., Miller, S. W. (M.E., '87), has been 
in the employ of the Pittsburg, Columbus, 
Cincinnati, & St. Louis Railway, 
since 1887, in the capacities of: 
apprentice in shops, 1887-89; 
fireman, 1889-90; draughtsman, 
1890; assigned to special work 
under direction of (1890-96), 
and assistant to (1896-1900), 
superintendent of motive power; 
assistant master mechanic (1900- 
01) and master mechanic (1901 
to date) on the Pennsylvania 
Lines West of Pittsburg. He 
is a member of the Western 
Railway Club ; the Master Me- 
chanics' Association; and the 
Master Car-Builders' Associa- 
tion. 

Miller, Warren Hastings (M.E., 
'98), was born in Honesdale, Pa., 
August 21, 1876. He prepared 
for a technical course of study at Mr. Hal- 
lam's school, Dresden, Germany. 

Before graduation he was commissioned 



assistant engineer in the United States Navy 
with the rank of ensign, and was attached to 
the New York Navy Yard until July 5, when 
he was assigned to the U.S.S. " Glacier " as 
senior assistant engineer. On November 9, 
he was appointed chief engineer of the same 
ship at Santiago de Cuba, and on March 17, 
1899, was detached from the "Glacier" and 
honorably discharged after putting the ves- 
sel out of commission and refitting her for 
the Philippines. 

He then became superintendent of con- 
struction with the Compressed Gas Capsule 
Co., 1899-1900, during which time he was 
engaged upon work for the company in 
Europe, and at Bridgeport, Conn., where a 
factory, 200 X 60 feet, with a capacity of 
300,000 " Sparklets " per diem, was con- 
structed by him. As refrigeration expert 
with Ladenburg, Thalman, & Co., New York, 
in 1900, he assisted in the erection of the 
360-ton ice-plant of the Standard Ice Manu- 
facturing Co., in Philadelphia. 

He took out patents in August, 1900, for 
a mechanical system of freight-car refriger- 
ation on the carbonic-acid system, and, inter- 
esting capitalists in the project, he resigned 
his former position, July 10, 1901, and began 
to develop the mechanical refrigeration-car 
business, and also became manager of the 




Mechanical Refrigerator Car 
W. H. Miller 



Erie Exploration Co. The United States 
Refrigerator Car Co. was organized in Phila- 
delphia, June 28, 1902, with Mr. Miller as 



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president. During the fall and winter of 
1902 Mr. Miller took out five additional pat- 
ents for mechanical car-refrigeration. He 
also finished a series of experiments with 
electric condensers used with his own sim- 
plified types of " rlieocrats," and took out 
patents on which the Erie Exploration Co. 
was reorganized. In December, 1902, he 
was commissioned by Charles E. Levy, of 
New York, to conduct investigations with 
static electrical machinery for producing 
light, and by F. Schoff, of Philadelphia, to 
develop a line of electrical rivetting and 
portable tools. In February, 1903, the 
United States Refrigerator Line was organ- 
ized, with Mr. Miller as its first president, 
to operate between North Carolina, Dela- 
ware, and New York in the transportation of 
fruits over the Seaboard Air Line and Penn- 
sylvania railroads. The illustration here- 
with shows one of the refrigerating cars and 
its inventor. 

He is a member of the Theta Xi frater- 
nity. He was a member of the Engineers' 
Club of New York until 1902. He was a 
member of the Shipping Information Com- 
mission during the Spanish War. 

Mr. Miller is the son of Everard P. and 
Sophie Hastings Miller. He married Susan 
Barse, November 15, 1899. 

Mitchell, Harvey F. (M.E., '84), was born 
at Machiasport, Me., January 9, 1859. He 
followed the sea (" before the mast ") for 
several years ; and before entering Stevens 
Institute was a bookkeeper for three years. 
He was with the Brooks Locomotive Works, 
Dunkirk, N. Y., as assistant in the draught- 
ing-room, and principal of the night school 
for apprentices, 1884; and was tutor in the 
College of the City of New York, 1884-93. 
In 1885 he organized and arranged a course 
for a manual-training department in the In- 
stitution for the Improved Instruction of 
Deaf-Mutes, New York, of which institu- 
tion he was assistant principal and superin- 
tendent from 1896 to 1900. In the latter year 
he became instructor in the Department of 
Physics of the College of the City of New 
York. Before accepting the latter position 
he was secretary and treasurer of the Everett 
Transportation & Commercial Co., Inc., Ev- 
erett, Wash. Mr. Mitchell was one of the 
lecturers for the Board of Education of New 



York city, and also Eastern agent for the 
Lost Creek and Sunset mining companies of 
Washington. From 1884-87 he was a mem- 
ber of the American Association for the Ad- 
vancement of Science, and he is a member 
of the Beta Theta Pi fraternity. 

Mr. Mitchell is the son of Forrest and 
Miranda Mitchell. He married Marcie For- 




IT. F. Mitchell 

syth, June 19, 1890 (deceased), and Marie 
Theresa Eustis, April 14, 1900. He has one 
child, Gladys Virginia Mitchell. 

Moeller, Franklin (M.E., '87), was 
draughtsman with Johnson & Morris, steam- 
heating engineers. New York; assistant en- 
gineer with the Welsbach Incandescent Gas 
Light Co., New York ; draughtsman with the 
Ingersoll-Sergeant Rock Drill Co. ; di-aughts- 
man, chief draughtsman, and assistant to 
general manager of the Webster, Camp, & 
Lane Machine Co., Akron, O. ; mechanical 
engineer with the William A. Harris Steam 
Engine Co., Providence, R. I.; designer with 
the Guild & Garrison Steam Pump Works, 
Brooklyn, N. Y. ; and has been with the 
Webster, Camp, & Lane Machine Co., Akron, 
O., from 1901 to date. He is a junior mem- 
ber of the American Society of Mechanical 
Engineers. 

Moffit, Robert (M.E., '00), is with the 
Burlee Dry Dock Co., Port Richmond, N. Y. 



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499 



Moore, Albert Bridges (M.E., '90), 
born in Elizabeth, N. J., April 4, 1868. 



was 
He 




A. B. Moore 

was hull draughtsman with the Samuel L. 
Moore & Sons Co., Elizabeth, N. J., 1890-92, 
having entire charge of the ship building 
ironwork; and became foreman ironworker 
in the same company in 1892, and eighteen 
months later vice-president and assistant 
superintendent. He was superintendent of 
the Marine Engine & Machine Co., Harrison, 
N. J., builders of Alco-Vapor launches and 
New Standard electric elevators, 1899-1902. 
This company has erected an entirely new 
plant since 1899, the original building, 200 
X 100 feet having been extended to 332 feet 
in length and of modern steel construction. 
A foundry was erected and equipped with all 
modern appliances, with an initial cupola 
capacity of 15 tons per hour, and so planned 
as promptly to meet further requirements. A 
6oo-horse-power electric-power plant was 
erected, and equipped with direct-connected 
compound condensing generator sets; and a 
75-horse-power compound condensing air- 
compressor for operating pneumatic hoists, 
drills, shippers, etc., was installed. This 
work was under the supervision of Mr. 
Moore, who in addition entirely redesigned 
the launch motors turned out by the com- 
pany. He has recently been engaged upon 
special work with the Tirrill Gas Machine 
Lighting Co., of Newark, N. J., and in April, 



1904, took charge, as shop superintendent, of 
a new plant at Bridgeport, Conn., belonging 
to the Eaton, Cole, & Burnham Co., manu- 
facturers of valves, fittings, etc. In 1903 a 
United States patent was issued to him for 
an improvement in feed pumps. He is a 
member of the American Society of Me- 
chanical Engineers, the Essex Club of New- 
ark, N. J., and of the Chi Psi fraternity. 

Mr. Moore is the son of Miller F. and 
Helen S. (Brown) Moore. He married 
Ethel G. Field, June 10, 1896, and they have 
one child, ]\Iargaret Aloore. 

Moore, MacMartin Niven (M.E., '98), 
was born in Elizabeth, N. J., July 4, 1877; 
son of Thomas and Constance Rosalie (Tait) 
Moore. He is descended from Nathaniel 
Bacon on one side of the family, and from 
Robert Fulton on the other. He was 
engaged as Assistant Instructor at Stevens 
Institute during the Supplementary Term fol- 
lowing his graduation, and upon the comple- 
tion of this work he took a position in the 
engineering department of the New York 




Air Brake Co., at Watertown, N. Y. He 
remained with this company until his death, 
which occurred, from consumption, May 20, 
1901. 

Moore, William J. (M.E., '00), Assistant 
Professor of Electrical Engineering at Ste- 



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vens Institute of Technology, Hoboken, N. J. 
For biography, see page 278. 

Morley, Charles Norman (M.E., '99), was 
born in Ashland, O., July 28, 1875; son of 
Charles and Normanda Harriet (Smith) 
Morley. He attended public schools in 
Akron, O. ; then studied with a private 
teacher and entered Stevens Preparatory 
School in 1894 and Stevens Institute in 1895. 
He was located at the Spalding & Jennings 
Steel Works, Jersey City, N. J., from 1899 to 
1904, his work consisting almost entirely in 
the development of an accurate and system- 
atic cost system for the works. He left the 
Spalding & Jennings Works, now controlled 
by the Crucible Steel Company of America, 



Boston, Mass., 1890-91 ; correspondent and 
afterward in charge of the polyphase depart- 




C. N. Morley 

to enter the Engineering Department of the 
New York & New Jersey Telephone Co., 
Brooklyn, N. Y. 

Morris, Anthony Saunders (M.E., '84), 
was born in Philadelphia, Pa., April 13, 1862. 
He was with Henry G. Morris, Philadelphia, 
1885-86; superintendent with the Julien Elec- 
tric Co., Camden, N. J., 1886-87; employed 
in the shop course, as draughtsman, oper- 
ating and erecting engineer, and as assistant 
to electrician, etc., with the Westinghouse 
Electric Co., Pittsburg, Pa., 1887-90; detailed 
to the Brush Electric Co., Cleveland, O., in 
charge of alternating apparatus, as electri- 
cian, for the Thomson-PIouston Electric Co., 




A. S. AIOKKI^ 

meat for the Westinghouse Electric Manu- 
facturing Co., 1891-98; and was transferred 
to Philadelphia in 1898, with headquarters 
at that point, where he is still engaged in 
a general engineering and selling work 
in all parts of the United States. He is a 
member of the American Institute of Elec- 
trical Engineers ; the Merion Cricket Club, 
of Philadelphia ; and of the Theta Xi fra- 
ternity. 

Mr. Morris is the son of Henry G. and 
Sally Marshall Morris. The family is of 
Welsh origin and settled in Philadelphia 
about 1680. He married Elisabeth Hicks 
Wood, October 15, 1890, and they have two 
children, Anthony Saunders and Wistar 
Morris. 

Morris, William Cullen (M.E., '96), was 
born in Jersey City, N. J., February 3, 1874. 
He was a mechanic in the Newark shops of 
the Consolidated Traction Company of New 
Jersey, 1896; engineers' assistant at the 
Ravenswood works of the New Amsterdam 
Gas Co., Long Island City, N. Y., 1896-1900; 
superintendent of those works, 1900-03 ; and 
has been engineer to the same company. 
New York, from 1903 to date. He is a mem- 
ber of the American Gas Light Association, 
to which he has presented the following 
papers : " Separation of Tar from Water- 



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Gas," 1900; "Test of a High-Power Incan- 
descent Gas Lamp," 1902; and "Notes on 
Operation of Large Carburetted Water-Gas 
Sets," 1903, which were read before the 
Association and published in its Proceedings. 
He is also a member of the Chi Phi fra- 
ternity. 

Mr. Morris is the son of Theodore Fre- 
linghuysen and Gertrude Vreeland (Johnson) 
Morris. He is descended from the Major 
Joseph Morris branch of the Morris family 
and the Peter Stryker family on his father's 
side, and from the Vreeland family of New 
Jersey on his mother's. He married Edna 
Frances Bennett, September 29, 1897. 

Morrison, Henry Kent (M.E., '86), was 
born in Gambia, O., November 12, 1864. He 
was with the Pennsylvania Railroad, 1886- 
87; with the Welsbach Incandescent Gas 
Light Co., 1887-89; assistant superintendent, 
for the United Gas Improvement Co., of 
the gasworks at Jersey City, N. J., 1889-93; 
and has been superintendent of the Concord 
Light & Power Co., Concord, N. H., from 
1893 to date. He has taken out patents on a 
coal-handling device, and on a fire-condition 
indicator, and is the author of papers (read 
before the New Eneland Association of Gas 




H. K. Morrison 

Engineers) on "Advertising" and "Gas Ap- 
pliances " in 1899 and 1903 respectively. He 
is a member of the New Engrland Associa- 



tion of Gas Engineers ; the American Gas 
Light Association; and of the University 
Club. 

Mr. Morrison is the son of Archibald M. 
and Margaret C. Morrison. He married 
Emma Marshall Howard-Smith, December 
6, 1888, and they have four children, How- 
ard Archibald, Archibald Stone, Alexander, 
and Theodore Morrison. 

Morton, Frederick Nash (M.E., '86), was 
born in Floboken, N. J., September 16, 1864. 




F. N. Morton 



He was with the United Gas Improvement 
Co., Philadelphia, engaged in the draught- 
ing-room and in making trips to the various 
gas-works operated by the company, 1886- 
88; was superintendent of the St. Albans 
Gas Light Co., St. Albans, Vt., 1888-94; 
superintendent and manager of the Lockport 
Gas & Electric Light Co., Lockport, N. Y., 
1894-95; with Humphreys & Glasgow, New 
York, 1895-97; superintendent of the Hud- 
son County Gas Light Co., Hoboken, N. J., 
1 897-1903; and has been assistant engineer 
with the United Gas Improvement Co. from 
1903 to date. He contributed various short 
articles to the " American Gas Light Jour- 
nal " and to " Progressive Age." On Oc- 
tober 19, 1899, he read a paper on " Another 
View of Interior Illumination " before the 
American Gas Light Association, of which 
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Mr. Morton is the son of Edmund L. and 
Josephine (Holdich) Morton. He is de- 
scended from John Morton, an officer who 
came to New York with the British army 
before the Revolution. When the war broke 
out he contributed sucli sums to the cause 
of the patriots that he was known as the 
" Rebel Banker." Frederick Nash Morton 
married Ellen Harwood Rich, June 22, 1892, 
and they have two children, Edmund Rich 
and Dorothy Ludlow Morton. 

Morton, Henry Samuel (M.E., '97), was 
born in Hoboken, N. J., May 24, 1874. He 




II. S. MOKTON 

attended the New York Law School, 1897- 
99; was admitted to the Bar of New York 
State and of the United States Circuit Court, 
1900 ; and has since practised law in New 
York city, making a specialty of patent liti- 
gation and applications. For a period of two 
years, from 1900 to 1902, he was associated 
with Mr. Harold Binney, but since the lat- 
ter year he has been in business for himself. 
He is also secretary and treasurer of the 
Nash Engineering Co., New York. 

He is a member of the St. Nicholas and 
Baltusrol Golf clubs, the New York Yacht 
Club, and of the Delta Tau Delta and Phi 
Delta Phi fraternities. 

Mr. Morton is the elder son of Henry and 
Clara Whiting (Dodge) Morton. His father 
was the first president of Stevens Institute 



of Technology. He married Sarah Chapman 
Bronson, April 23, 1902. 

Morton, Quincy L. (M.E., '02), is the 
second son of Henry and Clara Whiting 
(Dodge) Morton. His father was the first 
president of Stevens Institute. He superin- 
tended the construction of the Morton Me- 
morial Library at Pine Hill, N. Y. 

Mott, Charles Stewart (M.E., '97), was 
born in Newark, N. J., June 2, 1875. He 
served five years in the naval militia of the 
State of New York. In April, 1898, he en- 
listed in the United States Navy and served 
during the Spanish-American War as gun- 
ner's mate on the U.S.S. " Yankee." At the 
conclusion of his sophomore year he went 
abroad and took up a six-months' course of 
zymotechnology, studying yeast culture, after 
Hansen's method, under Prof. Jorgensen, of 
Copenhagen, after which he spent another 
six months studying the chemistry of fer- 
mentation, under Dr. Lintner, at Munich. 
He then returned and completed his junior 
and senior years, and upon graduation be- 
came actively engaged with C. S. Mott & 




C. S. Mott 

Co., New York, manufacturers of carbon- 
ating apparatus, of which firm he had be- 
come a member during his senior year. In 
1900 the business was absorbed by the Wes- 
ton-Mott Co., of Utica, Mr. Mott taking the 
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manufacturing, etc. He is a member of the 
American Society of Mechanical Engineers; 
the Utica Chamber of Commerce; the Yah- 
nundasis Golf Club; and the Automobile 
Club of Utica. 

Mr. Mott is the son of John C. and Isa- 
bella T. (Stewart) Mott. He is a descend- 
ant from the French Huguenot family De 
La Motte. He married Ethel Culbert Hard- 
ing, June 14, 1900, and they have one child, 
Aimee Mott. 

Mount, Albert R. (M.E., '91), was born 
in Jersey City, N. J., May i, 1870; son of 
Samuel C. and Martha Rynders Mount. 
One of his ancestors was George Mount, 
who came from England and settled at Mid- 
dletown, N. J., in the seventeenth century, 
being one of the original purchasers from 
the Indians and a grantee of Governor 
Nichols. His mother's ancestors settled in 
Dutchess County, N. Y., about the year 1700. 
Immediately after graduating he was em- 
ployed as draughtsman at the Wallis Iron 
Works, Jersey City, N. J. In the spring of 
1893 he went to Philadelphia and was en- 
gaged as draughtsman upon a new electric 
power house. He was taken ill with typhoid 
fever in July, and died at Sea Girt, N. J., 
August 13, 1893. He draughted the bridges 




ing of the Hudson County Boulevard, Jersey 
City, N. J. 

Mowton, Edward Pearsall (M.E., '86), 
was born in New York city November 15, 
1863. He graduated from the public schools. 




A. R. Mount 



which now span the Pennsylvania and the 
Central of New Jersey railroads at the cross- 



E. P. Mowton 

worked as an apprentice in the pattern-shop 
of the Continental Iron Works, Greenpoint, 
L. I., remaining for three years, and then 
entered Stevens Institute. Shortly after 
graduation he went to Germany and took a 
course in electricity, vmder Dr. Kohlraush, 
at the Polytechnicum, Hanover. Upon his 
return in 1887 he went to work with the 
Edison Electric Illuminating Co., New York, 
assisting in the installation of the company's 
underground system for the distribution of 
electricity from the 26th and 53d streets 
stations, 1887-88; was assistant to the presi- 
dent and engineer of the Newark Gas Light 
Co., Newark, N. J., 1888-91 ; and attended 
the New York Law School, and at the same 
time studied law in the office of Booraem, 
Hamilton, Beckett, & Ransom, New York, 
1891-93. He received the degree of Bachelor 
of Laws and was admitted to the bar in 
May, 1893, and has since been actively en- 
gaged in the practice of law in New York. 
He is a member of the General Society of 
Mechanics and Tradesmen, and of the Asso- 
ciation of the Bar of the City of New York. 
Mr. Mowton is the son of Charles Carroll 



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and Adele E. Mowton. His paternal ances- 
tors came from England and settled in Mary- 
land in 1752. John Mowton was the first 
engineer in charge of the New York Gas 
Light Co., which position he retained until 
his death, when he was succeeded by his 
son, Charles C. Mowton, who remained with 
the company until the formation of the 
Consolidated Gas Co., after which he was 
retained until his death in 1889. E. P. 
Mowton's maternal ancestors came from 
Philadelphia and were early settlers from 
Holland. He married Mabel W. Mason, Sep- 
tember 30, 1896, and they have three children, 
Edward M.,. Adele, and Eleanor Mowton. 

Moynan, Frank (M.E., '90), was in the 
engineering department of the Third Avenue 
Cable Road, New York, 1890-91 ; and since 
then has been with the Illinois Steel Co., 
South Chicago, 111., and in the real-estate 
business, South Chicago, 111., under the firm 
name of Edwards & Moynan. 

Muldaur, George Barton (M.E., '89), was 
born in Dover, Del., August i, 1866. He 
was in the office of Edward P. Thompson 
(M.E., '78), patent expert, 1889; with the 
Edison Electrical Illuminating Co., New 
York, 1889-90; on the editorial stafif and, 
later, " World's Fair " editor and associate 
editor of the " Electrical Engineer," 1890- 
95 ; was on the staff of the " Evening Sim," 
New York, 1893; in the New York office of 
the Fidelity & Casualty Co., as investigator 
of accidents relating to machinery, etc., 
1895-96; examiner of claims for the same 
company, for Western and Central New 
York, 1896-98; in the insurance business in 
New York, 1898-1901 ; and is now sales and 
manufacturer's agent in that city. He is a 
member of the Mattano Club, Elizabeth, 
N. J.; the Military Order of the Loyal 
Legion ; and of the Theta Xi fraternity. 

Mr. Muldaur is the son of Alonzo W. and 
Elizabeth H. (Sayre) Muldaur. His father 
(of Russian family) was a lieutenant-com- 
mander in the United States navy when he 
was lost on board the U.S.S. "Oneida" at 
Yokohama in 1870. The subject of this 
sketch married Caroline Southmayd, June 
14, 1894, and they have two children, George 
Barton and Theodora Muldaur. Another 
child, Dayton S. Muldaur, is deceased. 



Munby, Ernest John (M.E., '97), was born 
in Turvey, Bedfordshire, England, May 19, 
1875; son of the Very Rev. George Frederick 
Woodhouse and Harriet Louisa (Linton) 
Munby. His father has been rector of Tur- 
vey from 1870 to date, and his grandfather 




E. J. Munby 

was Joseph Munby, J. P. of York and the 
wapentake of Bulmer, Yorkshire, in which 
county the family has been for some sixteen 
generations, giving its name (corrupted) to 
the village of Mumby. He was educated at 
Bedford Grammar School and at Rugby, 
being the Royal Humane Society's medallist 
at the latter in 1891. He was engaged in 
gold-mining in the West, 1897-98; engineer 
on the first gold-dredgers in the United 
States, at Breckenridge, Colo., 1898; acting 
superintendent of gold-dredging operations 
on rivers in Borneo, for the Chartered Com- 
pany of British North Borneo, 1899, and chief 
engineer of the same work, 1899-1900. In 
May, 1900, he was compelled to resign his 
position on account of incessant fever. He 
then went to the Philippine Islands, where 
he was engaged as chief assistant engineer 
on the United States government $1,500,000 
refrigeration plant then under construction. 
Continued ill health compelled another 
change, and after six months he left for 
China and Japan, spending two months in 
the latter country, recuperating, and then 
returned to the United States, settling at 



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Denver, Colo., in the employ of the Gardner 
Electric Drill & Hammer Co. He has been 
chief engineer of the European branch of 
this company in London, from 1901 to date, 
and has put in rock drills and electric plants 
at mines in Lancashire, Staffordshire, Car- 
narvonshire, Denbighshire, Norway, Portu- 
gal, Australia, South Africa, and Egypt. He 
is the author of the following papers : " Elec- 
tric Rock-Drilling," read before the Royal 
Institution, February, 1902 ; " Electric Drills 
in Collieries," read before the South Staf- 
fordshire and East Worcestershire Society 
of Mining Engineers, Birmingham, April, 
1902; and "Electric Drills," published in the 
Stevens Institute Indicator, July, 1903 ; and 
is an occasional contributor to the European 
edition of Poivcr. He is a member of the 
Beta Theta Pi fraternity. 

Munkwitz, Edward H. (M.E., '85), is lo- 
cated at Milwaukee, Wis. 

Munkwitz, William H. (M.E., '85), is lo- 
cated at Milwaukee, Wis. 

Murphy, Edward J., Jr. (M.E., '98), was 
born in New York city August 5, 1876; son 
of Edward J. and Margaret A. Murphy. He 
attended the New York public schools, and 
prepared for entrance to Stevens Institute 
at the De La Salle Institute, New York city, 
and at the Stevens School, Hoboken, N. J. 
He entered the draughting department of the 
Metropolitan Street Railway in 1898, and 
was engaged on work for the track and 
structural divisions of the road. In 1899 he 
became a member of the Kruse & Murphy 
Manufacturing Co., New York., makers of 
a special line of textile machinery, and 
has continued in the firm to date. His 
graduating thesis, written with Mr. P. E. 
Van Saun, on " Test of a Multi-Circuit Di- 
rect-Current Dynamo," was printed in the 
American Electrician, November, 1898. 

Murray, John Heber (M.E., '92), was 
born in Milton, Pa., June 24, 1868; son of 
S. Wilson and Sarah Matilda (Meekly) Mur- 
ray. He is descended from John Murray, 
who came from Scotland in 1732 and settled 
in Pennsylvania. Members of his family 
served as officers in the Revolutionary War, 
and as members of the Pennsylvania Assem- 



bly, the State Senate, and the 17th Congress. 
The subject of this sketch graduated from 
Dickinson College, Carlisle, Pa., in 1889. 
He entered the engineer's office of the New 
York, New Haven, & Hartford Railroad in 
the fall of 1892, but an affection of the eyes 
compelled him to resign in the following 
spring. During the summer of 1894 he was 
employed by his father, at Milton, Pa., but 
in September of that year was taken ill with 
tubercular consumption, and despite a south- 
ern trip his health gradually failed, and he 
died at Carlisle, Pa., June 18, 1895. 




J. H. Murray 

He married Margarett Bosler, December 
2^, 1890, and one child, Samuel Wilson Mur- 
ray, Jr., was born to them. 

Muschenheim, F. A. (M.E., '91), was with 
the Haskin Wood Vulcanizing Co., New 
York, 1891-93 ; and the Western Electric Co., 
at their works in Chicago, and in New York 
city, 1893-1904. He is now engaged with 
his brother in the management of the Hotel 
Astor, New York city. He is an associate 
member of the American Institute of Elec- 
trical Engineers. 

Myers, Allan Chalmers (M.E., '98), was 
born in Tyrone, Pa., February 19, 1873 ! son 
of Henry and Nancy Myers. He was with 
the Cambria Steel Co., Johnstown, Pa., 1898- 
1900; and has been first assistant special 



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mechanical engineer for the Carnegie Steel 
Co., at the Edgar Thomson Steel Works and 




A. C. Myers 

Furnaces, Braddock, Pa., from 1900 to date. 
He is a member of the Tau Beta Pi fraternity. 

Myers, Charles H. (M.E., '99), was 
draughtsman with Post & McCord, Brook- 
lyn, N. Y., 1899; in the shops of the Mis- 
souri, Kansas, & Texas Railroad, Smithvillc, 
Tex., 1899-1900; later assistant inspecting 
engineer with the Panama Railroad Co., New 
York; and has been erecting engineer with 
Westinghouse, Church, Kerr, & Co., New 
York, from 1903 to date. 

Myers, Cornelius Tiers (M.E., '00), was 
born in Elizabeth, N. J., March 23, 1879; son 
of James Lawrence and Amelia Ogden (Al- 
len) Myers. He graduated in 1896 from 
the Pingry School, Elizabeth, N. J. ; was with 
the American Engine Co., Bound Brook, 
N. J., 1900-01 ; with the John A. Mead Man- 
ufacturing Co., engineers and manufacturers 
of coal-handling machinery, 1901-02 ; engi- 
neering draughtsman at the Tarrytown 
(N. Y.) shops of the Rand Drill Co., manu- 
facturers of air compressors, tools, etc., 1902- 
03 ; and has been air-compressor representa- 
tive at Pittsburg, Pa., of the International 
Steam Pump Co., of New York, from 1903 
to date. He is a member of the Beta Theta 
Pi fraternity. 



Myers, Edwin L. (M.E., '78), was born in 
Plattsburg, N. Y., January 18, 1858; son of 
John Henry and Julia R. Myers. He was 
with the Sawyer-Man Electric Light Co., 
New York, until his death, which occurred 
February 26, 1881. 

Nash, Lewis Hallock (M.E., 'j'j), was 
born in South Norwalk, Conn., April 16, 
1852. Pie served his time as apprentice in 
the Norwalk Iron Works from 1869 to 1873. 
He has been with the National Meter Co., 
New York, since 1877, when he began de- 
signing" improvements in water-meters, and 
after a few months produced the " Crown " 
meter, the first of a large class which may 
be described as single-piston rotary me- 
ters, and which, though it has now been 
in the market for more thaii twenty-five 
years, still holds place as the best of its 
kind. Later he invented several other forms 
of water-meter, such as the " Empire," 
" Nash." and "Improved Gem," which the 
same company, now grown to large propor- 
tions, and employing many hundreds of men, 
are at present manufacturing by the thou- 
sand. The single-piston rotary meter has 
practically superseded all other forms of dis- 




L. H. Nash 

placement water-meter. Mr. Nash has taken 
out and assigned to his company about sixty 
United States patents on water-meters. 
In 1884 Mr. Nash began the study of the 



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gas engine and since that time he has taken 
out over sixty patents, all of which have 
been assigned to the National Meter Co. 
Many of these patents are extensively used 
by engine manufacturers, one being for the 
two-cycle engine with piston-controlled 
valves, which is said to be manufactured at 
the present time by more than two thousand 
firms. Another one of his patents covers 



chanical Engineers, and of the New York 
Electrical Society. 

Mr. Nash is the son of Francis H. and 
Sarah M. (Hallock) Nash. He is descended 
from the early settlers of the old town of 
South Norwalk. He married Anna M. 
Archer July 2, 1883, and they have four chil- 
dren, Marion Hallock, Douglas Elliott, Mil- 
dred Archer, and Harold Lewis Nash. 




20-HoRSE-PowER Nash Gas-Engine in the Electrical Laboratory 
Lewis H. Nash 



the starting of gas engines by the use of com- 
pressed air ; this feature has been adopted 
by all makers of large gas engines. The 
National Meter Co. is now manufacturing- 
engines up to 150 horse-power. The com- 
pany has never prosecuted infringers of 
their gas-engine patents. 

Mr. Nash was elected Alumni Trustee of 
the Stevens Institute of Technology in 1897. 
He contributed an article on the " Testing 
of Large Water-Meters " to the Stevens In- 
stitute Indicator, January, 1901. He is a 
member of the American Society of Me- 



Nathan, Alfred (M.E., '90), was born in 
New York city, November 21, 1866. He is 
now vice-president of the Nathan Manu- 
facturing Co., New York; secretary and di- 
rector of the Liternational Steam Pump Co., 
New York; director of the Ludlow Valve 
Manufacturing Co., Troy, N. Y. ; and secre- 
tary of the Lakewood Hotel Co. He is a 
member of the Beta Theta Pi fraternity, and 
a junior member of the American Society of 
Mechanical Engineers. 

Mr. Nathan is the son of Max and Rosalie 
Nathan. He married Mabel Lauer, Oc- 



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tober 26, 1902, and they have two children, 
Madge Lauer and Alfred Max Nathan. 

Nettleton, Lloyd Henry (M.E., '91), was 
born in Washington, Conn., October 25, 
1868. He has been with Gillis & Geoghe- 
gan. New York, engineers and contractors 
for power, steam and hot water heating, and 
ventilating plants, from 1891 to date. The 
work of this firm is mostly confined to large 
office, hotel, and hospital buildings, and in- 
cludes boiler, pump, and tank installations, 
and the connections of engines in addition to 
the heating and ventilating plant. Mr. Net- 
tleton was assigned to the engineering de- 
partment, and has been engaged during the 
past thirteen years in estimating, preparing 
plans and specifications, and superintending 
the erection and construction of heating and 
ventilating plants, etc., and has had charge 
of some of the largest work of the firm. He 
is a member of the Royal Arcanum and is 
now secretary of Hoboken Council No. 99 
of that order. He ,is a trustee of the Free 
Puljlic Library of Hoboken, N. J., for the 
term 1898-1905. 

Mr. Nettleton is the son of Henry S. and 
Martha (Bronson) Nettleton. His father's 
ancestors were among the first settlers in 




L. H. Nettleton 

Connecticut, record being found of them in 
old Milford in 1636. On his mother's side 
he is descended from the well-known Mos- 



ley family of Revolutionary times. He mar- 
ried Reba Hedges, February i, 1894, and 
they have one child, May Edna Nettleton. 

Newell, Charles Zenas (M.E., '98), was 
born in Whitestone, Long Island, N. Y., No- 




C. Z. Newell 

vember 3, 1874; son of Zenas Edgar and 
Anna Cornelia (Sneden) Newell. He was 
in the motor wagon department of James 
Orin Noakes & Co., coach-makers. New 
York, 1898-1902; and has been with the 
Federal Leather Co., New York, having 
charge of the office and of the production of 
new and special work, from 1902 to date. In 
1904 he drew plans for a frame dwelling 
which has been completed and is now occu- 
pied by one of the members of the firm. He 
has also designed and recently completed the 
plans for a new brick factory building for 
the Federal Leather Co. 

Newell, Harvey Edgar (M.E., '98), was 
born in Whitestone, Long Island, N. Y., 
September 29, 1876; son of Zenas Edgar 
and Anna Cornelia (Sneden) Newell. He 
was with the Western Electric Co., New 
York, 1898; electrician with the India Rub- 
ber & Gutta Percha Insulating Co., Yonkers, 
N. Y., 1898-1900; and is now employed by 
this company as mechanical and electrical 
engineer. He is a junior member of the 
American Society of Mechanical Engineers, 



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and an associate member of the American 
Institute of Electrical Engineers. 




H. E. Newell 

■ Newman, Leslie Herbert (M.E., '00), was 
born in Flatbusb, Long Island. N. Y., April 




L. H. Newman 

23, 1872; son of William B. and Elizabeth 
G. (Bogardus) Newman. His father is 
commander, and his grandfather captain, in 
the United States navy. He was with the 
Moose River Power Co., Lyons Falls, N. Y., 
1900-01 ; in the testing department of the 



General Electric Co., Lynn, Mass., 1901 ; 
with Chambers & Hone, consulting engi- 
neers. New York^ in charge of the construc- 
tion of the new power house for the Fonda, 
Johnstown, & Gloversville Railroad, Akin, 
N. Y., 1902-03 ; superintendent with the St. 
Lawrence County Electric & Water Co., 
Massena, N. Y., 1903-04; and has been su- 
perintendent of the Laurentide Paper Co.'s 
steam plant at Grand Mire, P. Q., Canada, 
from March, 1904, to date. He is a member 
of the Delta Tau Delta fraternity. 

Nichols, Frank B. (M. E., '78), attended a 
medical college in New York after gradua- 
tion, but discontinued his studies when he 
found the profession uncongenial. He then 
entered the employ of the Standard Oil Co., 
being connected with the Weehawken (N.J.) 
docks, where he remained four or five years. 
In 1883 he became associated with Mr. Wil- 
liam H. Sheldon (M.E., '78) in the Keystone 
Rubber Co., acting as its treasurer for sev- 
eral years, and was also interested as vice- 
president in the Sonneborn Comb & Novelty 
Co. His death, which was due to consump- 
tion, occurred July 10, 1886. 

Nichols, Frederick William (M.E., '02), 
was born in New Haven, Conn., August i, 




F. W. Nichols 



1879; son of Augustus Charles and Mary 
Lundy Nichols, of English and Scotch de- 



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scent respectively. He was electrician in the 
engineering department of the New York & 
New Jersey Telephone Co.^ later with Hurd 
& Co., New York, and is now with the New 
York Safety Steam Power Co. 

Norcross, Joseph Arnold (M.E., '91), was 
born in Derby, Conn., December 2'], 1869. 




J. A. Norcross 

He was with the Consolidated Gas Co., New- 
York, 1891-92, serving- in the street depart- 
ment, and then at the 99th Street and iiith 
Street works, where his duties were princi- 
pally those of chemist. He superintended, 
for the United States government, the re- 
building of the gasworks at West Point, N. 
Y., 1893 ; and from 1894 to 1903 was with 
Messrs. Humphreys & Glasgow, of London 
and New York, at first as engineer in charge 
of construction and initial operation of car- 
buretted water-gas works at Brussels, Tot- 
tenham, Swansea, and Shanghai. After 
having sole charge of starting and operating 
additional works in numerous European 
towns (Liverpool, London, Brussels, etc.) 
he became chief expert in gas-manufacture 
in the London office, in which capacity he 
had immediate personal charge of the initial 
operation of thirty additional gasworks and 
general supervision of about thirty more, 
aggregating altogether a capacity of 100,- 
000,000 cubic feet per day. He held the po- 
sition of principal assistant to the managing 



partner from 1900 to 1903. In 1896 he was 
appointed consulting engineer to the Derby 
Gas Co., Derby, Conn. He has been engi- 
neer to the New Haven (Conn.) Gas Light 
Co. from 1903 to date. 

In conjunction with A. G. Glasgow (M.E., 
'85), he took out a patent on improvements 
in the operation of carburetted water-gas 
plants. He is a member of the American 
Gas Light Association; the American So- 
ciety of Mechanical Engineers ; the Society 
of Gas Lighting; the New England Associa- 
tion of Gas Engineers ; the University Club, 
of New York; the Whitehall Club, of Lon- 
don ; The Graduates', Quinnipiack, and 
Country clubs of New Haven ; and of the 
Delta Tau Delta fraternity. 

Mr. Norcross is the son of Henry Fan- 
ning and Susan Brainard (Arnold) Nor- 
cross, of English ancestry on both sides, 
mostly settled in New England since the 
seventeenth century. He married Cellissa 
Brown, May 2y, 1902. 

Norris, Henry Lee (M.E., '02), was born 
in Edinburgh, Scotland, May 13, 1879; son 
of Henry Lee Norris, M.D., and Charlotte 
Mary (Urquhart) Norris. He made two 
voyages as cadet engineer on the American 
Line steamship " St. Paul," while a student 
at Stevens Institute. He was draughtsman 
with the Robins Conveying Belt Co. during 
the summer of 1900, while a student at Ste- 
vens. During the summer of 1901, while 
engaged with the superintendent of build- 
ings and grounds at Columbia University, 
he designed and constructed a tunnel for the 
accommodation of steam lines and electric 
conduits between the Engineering Building 
and Earl Hall. At the completion of his 
college course in 1902, he resumed relations 
with the superintendent at Columbia Univer- 
sity. 

Norris, Rollin (M.E., '85), was engaged 
in draughting for Bartlett, Hayward, & Co., 
Baltimore, Md., 1885-87; and now holds the 
position of superintendent of works in the 
engineering department of the United Gas 
Improvement Co. of Philadelphia. He is a 
member of the American Gas Light Asso- 
ciation (of which he was second vice-presi- 
dent in 1902, and was elected president in 
October, 1903) ; and of the Western Gas 



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Light Association. He has taken out several 
patents. He read the following papers be- 
fore the American Gas Light Association: 
'• The Theoretical Effect of Pre-Heating 
Blast Steam and Oil in Water-Gas Manufac- 
ture," 1891 ; " Some Experiments with the 
Edgerton Standard," 1899; and "The Har- 
court Ten-Candle-Power Pentane Lamp," 
1900. 

Ode, Randolph Theodore (M.E., '98), was 
born in New York city August 10, 1878: 
son of Adolph and Annie Ode. He studied 
at the College of the City of New York for 
two years. He was assistant engineer with 
the Merchants' Refrigerating Co., New 
York, 1898-1900; and has been with the 
Providence Engineering Works from 1900 
to date, having had charge of the sales de- 
partment at Providence for some time. He 
is now secretary of the company. He is a 
junior member of the American Society of 
Mechanical Engineers ; a member of the 



& Co., Inc., street-railway contractors, and 
afterward supervising engineer of construc- 




University Club, of Providence, R. L ; 
and of Kane Lodge of the Order of Free 
Masons. 

Oelbermann, Julius (M.E., '91), was born 
in Philadelphia, Pa., December 24, 1868. He 
was draughtsman with Bement, Miles, & Co., 
machine-tool builders, Philadelphia, 1891- 
92; draughtsman with William Wharton, Jr., 




Julius Oelberjiann 

tion for this firm during the building of two 
roads in Philadelphia, 1892-94; salesman 
with the Link-Belt Engineering Co., Phila- 
delphia, 1895-96; and with Brenniser, Still- 
wagen, & Co., Philadelphia, 1897-99; and 
has been a member of the firm of William 
D. Oelbermann & Co., importers of wool, 
hair, and noils, Philadelphia, from 1900 to 
date. He is a member of the Chi Psi fra- 
ternity. 

Ogden, Frederic D. (M.E., 95), has been 
employed as chemist with the Equitable Gas 
Light Co., New York, and as assistant super- 
intendent with the New Amsterdam Gas 
Light Co., New York, and as assistant super- 
intendent of the Northern Gas Light & Coke 
Co., New York, 1899; and has been treasurer 
and director of the J. Edward Ogden Co., 
dealers in heavy hardware. New York, from 
1900 to date. 

Oliphant, Robert C. (M.E., '89), has been 
employed in the works of the Atlantic Re- 
fining Co., Philadelphia, Pa. ; as draughts- 
man with the Link-Belt Engineering Co., 
Nicetown, Pa. ; with the Harvey Steel Co., 
Newark, N. J., 1894-96; as manager in the 
New York oflice of the Snow Steam Pump 
Works ; and is now located at Oakland, Cal. 



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Onderdonk, John Remsen (M.E., '89), was 
born in Jersey City, N. J., October 15, 1868; 
son of John Remsen and Rosina Onderdonk. 




J. R. Onderdonk 

He is descended from Adrian Onderdonk, 
who settled on Long Island in 1672. Henry 
Ustic Onderdonk, Bishop of Pennsylvania, 
and Benjamin Tredwell Onderdonk, Bishop 
of New York, were his great-uncles. Before 
entering Stevens he spent considerable time 
on the construction work of the Sea Wall, 
California; the Canadian Pacific Railway, 
British Columbia; and on the waterworks 
tunnel under Lake Michigan for the Chi- 
cago water supply, contracts for the above 
work being held by his uncle and father. 
He was with the Streeter-Amet Weighing 
& I-iecording Co., Chicago, having charge 
of the application of their track weighing 
and recording instruments on railroads in 
the East, 1889-90; with the Baltimore & 
Ohio Railroad as inspector of materials, 
spending considerable time in the draught- 
ing department, 1890-92; assistant engineer 
of tests of the same company, 1892-95 and 
engineer of tests, both physical and chemical, 
with offices and laboratories, at Mount Clare, 
Baltimore, Md., from 1895 to date. 

Mr. Onderdonk has copyrighted several 
diagrams for use in calculating helical and 
elliptical springs, which were used in de- 
signing the latest springs in use on the 
Baltimore & Ohio Railroad equipment, also 



diagram showing draw-bar pull of all loco- 
motives on all grades at all speeds, and the 
tonnage they are able to haul under those 
conditions. As engineer of tests he has 
charge of the testing of all new designs sub- 
mitted, of tests of locomotives and all road 
and service tests, the inspection and testing 
of all material purchased for the motive- 
power department, also all material for loco- 
motives and cars built by outside contractors, 
as well as the inspection of the erection of all 
new locomotives and cars. He is at present 
assisting in' collecting data and writing a 
report on " Locomotives of Great Power," 
to be read at the meeting of the Interna- 
tional Railway Congress to be held at 
Washington, D. C, in May, 1905. He is a 
member of the American Society for Testing 
Materials. 

O'Neil, Rowland Jesse (M.E., '01), was 
burn in Claremont, N. I-I., September 30, 
1878; son of David Webster and Jane A. 
(Gray) O'Neil, both of Scotch lineage. 
After graduation he entered the employ of 
the Parkersburg Iron & Steel Co., of Par- 
kersburg, W. Va., as mechanical engineer, 
a position he held until the completion of 




R. J. O'Neil 

the plant, then becoming assistant manager, 
and holding that post until his death from 
typhoid fever at Parkersburg, January i, 
1903. 



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Ophuls, Frederick (M.E., '97), was born in 
Crefeld, Germany, August 18, 1876; son of 
Charles and Clara (Wilhelms) Ophuls. He 
was draughtsman and salesman with the De 
La Vergne Refrige- 
rating Machine Co., 
New York, 1897-99; 
draughtsman with 
the Baldwin Loco- 
motive Works, Phil- 
adelphia, 1900-01 ; 
with the Frick Co., 
Waynesboro, Pa., 
1901 ; and has been 
mechanical engineer 
and estimator with 
the Vulcan Iron 
Works, San Fran- 
cisco, Cal., from 
1901 to date. His 
graduating thesis, 
prepared jointly 
with Messrs. Thom- 
son and Tiemann 
of his class, on 

" Test of Nash Gas-Engine with Direct- 
Connected Dynamo," was published in the 
Stez'ciis Institute Indicator, October, 1898, 
and reprinted in full in the JVater and Gas 



Oppermann, Fred M. (M.E., '94), was 
born in Roux, Belgium, June 13, 1873. His 
father took out a number of patents for 
glass-furnaces, machinery, ovens, etc., and 





Frederick Ophuls 

Rcviezv for October of the same year. He 
is a member of the Olympic Club of San 
Francisco, and of the Tau Beta Pi fraternity. 



iSIoioR Car 

F. M. Opp: 



designed the first tank for glass. The sub- 
ject of this sketch was assistant superintend- 
ent at the Charleroi Plate Glass Works, 
Roux, Belgium, where he devised a plant 
for making wire-glass on the American sys- 
tem, 1894-95; superintendent of Works No. 
3 of the Pittsburg Plate Glass Co., Ford 
City, Pa., 1895-96; secretary to M. Bailly, 
M.LC.E., general agent in Europe for the 
W'estinghouse Air Brake Co., located in Bel- 
gium, 1896-99; and has been with Malevez 
Freres, engineers, St. Servais, Belgium, de- 
signing and constructing steam motor-cars 
for heavy traffic, from 1899 to date. He has 
taken out several patents pertaining to steam- 
engines for this special work. He is a mem- 
ber of the Chambre Syndicate in Brussels 
(legal expert) ; of the Automobile Club of 
Belgium ; and secretary of the Automobile 
Club in Namur. 

Mr. Oppermann married Eugenie Petit, 
January 6, 1896, and they have two children. 
Lucy and Madeleine Oppermann. 

Orr, Alexander Macklin, Jr. (M.E., 97), 
was born in New York city, October 10, 
1875; son of Alexander M. and Margaret 
Young (Knox) Orr. His ancestors on the 
paternal side were Scotch and Irish, and on 



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the maternal side English and Scotch, among 
the latter being John Knox, the Reformer. 
Among the former who came to this country 
were founders of Southampton, L. I., Bran- 
ford, Conn., and Newark, N. J. ; and Abra- 
ham Pierson, whose father settled in 
Massachusetts in 1639 and was the first presi- 
dent of Yale University, founded in 1701. 
Before entering college young Orr attended 
Lyon's Collegiate Institute, New York, and 
the Stevens School. During the latter part 
of 1900 he travelled extensively in Great 
Britain and on the continent of Europe. 

He was with R. W. Hildreth & Co., New 
York, inspecting and civil engineers, being 




A. M. Orr, Jr. 

located as inspector of shop-work at the 
Union Bridge Co.'s shops at Athens, Pa., 
and at those of the Elmira Bridge Co. ; and 
as field inspector of erection, with head- 
quarters at the above places, 1897-98; assist- 
ant superintendent at Orrs & Co.'s Troy and 
Mount Vernon Paper Mills, manufacturing 
news, hanging, and high-grade tissue papers, 
having immediate charge of the design and 
construction of new work, alterations, and 
repairs. He also carried on various tests 
and investigations resulting in a more eco- 
nomical and efficient operation of the plants, 
1898-1901. For some time he was assigned 
to special work at the company's pulp mill, 
the Treadwell Mills, Pulp & Paper Co., on 
tlie Saranac River, near Plattsburg, N. Y., 



and, in the Adirondacks, as inspector and 
measurer of the spruce and other timber 
manufactured by the mill into wood pulp. 
Early in 1901 he went to New York as 
assistant sales manager of the firm, since in- 
corporated as the Orr Paper Co. He re- 
mained with the company until December, 
1902, when he resigned to become a special 
partner of Sadler, Perkins, & Field, naval 
architects and engineers, New York. He 
withdrew from this firm in September, 1903, 
and associated himself with Mr. Henry J. 
Gielow, engineer and naval architect. New 
York. Besides designing and superintend- 
ing the construction, alteration, and repair 
of yachts and merchant vessels, this latter 
firm conducts a yacht and ship brokerage 
and marine-insurance business. 

Mr. Orr is a member of the New York 
Yacht Club and the Strollers Club, New 
York ; the Troy Club, and the Laureate Boat 
Club, Troy, N. Y. ; the Albany Country Club, 
Albany, N. Y. ; and the Delta Tau Delta and 
Tau Beta Pi fraternities. He was president 
of the Stevens Engineering Society. 

Osborn, W. B. (M.E., '96), spent his spare 
time during the first three years of the course 
at the Institute in the office of the city engi- 
neer of Yonkers, N. Y., mainly on construc- 
tion work in connection with the Fort Field 
distributing reservoir. During his senior 
year he was employed in the department of 
mains of the East River Gas Co., Long 
Island City, N. Y. He was assistant super- 
intendent of the Lockport Gas & Electric 
Light Co., Lockport, N. Y., 1896-98, and has 
been constructing engineer of the Riter- 
Conley Co. from 1898 to date. After a few 
months with this company he was placed in 
charge, for them, of the erection of a gas 
plant for the People's Gas Light & Coke 
Co.. Buffalo, N. Y. 

Overton, Franklin F. (M.E., '96), was in the 
employ of the W. & A. Fletcher Co., marine- 
engine and boiler builders, Hoboken, N. J., 
1896-97. During the latter part of 1898 
he enlisted in the United States army as an 
electrician, and the following year went to 
Manila, P. I. He was later located at Pe- 
conic. Long Island, N. Y. 

Mr. Overton married Susan Marie Sweet, 
September 13, 1904. 



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Owston, Charles William, Jr. (M.E., '99), 
was born in Franklin, Pa., February 8, 1878. 
He was assistant steam expert with the Il- 
linois Steel Co., 1899; salesman with Mar- 
shall & Huschart Machine Co., 1899-1900; 
salesman with the Chicago Pneumatic Tool 
Co., 1900; president and general manager of 
the Eclipse Co., Inc., 1900-02 ; superintend- 
ent of the Railway Spring & Manufacturing 
Co., 1902; manager of the Washington plant 
of the Railway Steel Spring Co., 1902-03 ; 
and has been manager of the St. Louis plant 
of the same concern from 1903 to date. He 
is a member of the American Society of Me- 
chanical Engineers ; the Railroad clubs of 
New York and Pittsburg; and of the West 
Side Republican Club of New York. 

Mr. Owston is the son of Charles W. and 
Emma L. Owston. He married Helen B. 
Strickland, December i, 1902. 

Page, Carter H., Jr. (M.E., '87), was born 
in Cobham, Va., September 4, 1864. He was 
in the employ of the Welsbach Incandescent 




C. H. Page, Jr. 

Gas Light Co., 1887; with the Welsbach 
Incandescent Gas Light Co., of the South, 
at New Orleans, 1887-88; with the Wels- 
bach Incandescent Gas Light Co. of the 
Northwest, at Chicago, 1888; assistant engi- 
neer of the United Gas Improvement Co., 
1888-89; superintendent of the Gate City 
Gas Co.. Atlanta, Ga., 1889-92; inspector of 



appliances with the United Gas Improvement 
Co., 1892-97; assistant to the comptroller at 
the Philadelphia Gas Works, 1897-1900; and 
has been commercial agent of the United 
Gas Improvement Co. from 1900 to date. He 
is a member of the American and Western 
Gas Light associations ; the City Club of 
New York city; the Masonic Order; and of 
the Chi Phi fraternity. He is an alumni 
Trustee of Stevens Institute. 

Mr. Page is the son of Carter H. and 
Leila (Graham) Page, and of Virginia Co- 
lonial descent. He married Elizabeth H. 
Roberts, April 30, 1891, and they have three 
children, Richard Channing Moore, Edward 
Roberts, and Katherine Carlisle Page. 

Paine, Leonard Gregory (M.E., '86), was 
born in Farmington, Conn., April 3, 1863. 
He has been secretary and treasurer of the 
Monson-Burmah State Co., Portland, Me. ; 
connected with the Brown & Sharpe Manu- 
facturing Co., Providence, R. I. ; with the 
Pratt & Whitney Co., Hartford, Conn., and 
the International Paper Co., New York ; 
and Philadelphia manager of the Standard 
Plunger Elevator Co., Worcester, Mass. 

Mr. Paine is the son of Levi L. and Jan- 
ette Holmes Paine. He married Elizabeth 
Carver Lane, October 14, 1891, and they 
have one child, Elizabeth Paine. 

Palen, William De Witt (M.E., '89), was 
born in Canadensis, Monroe County, Pa.. 
February 7, 1867. He was draughtsman, 
and later in the marine department under the 
superintendent, with the United Edison Man- 
ufacturing Co., New York, 1889-90; in 
charge of the testing department of the 
Crocker- Wheeler Motor Co., New York, 
1890-91 ; with the Link-Belt Engineering 
Co., Nicetown, Philadelphia, 1891-95, at first 
as draughtsman, then upon outside work in 
charge of the installation of plants, and later 
as salesman, acting as agent at the Pittsburg 
office of the company ; salesman for the New 
England States, for the Philadelphia Textile 
Machinery Co., Philadelphia, 1895-96, and 
chief engineer for the same company from 
1896 to date. He has published " Palen's 
Pulley Chart," copyrighted in 1900. In 1902 
he made a special series of tests on steel- 
disk ventilator-fans, with regard to volume, 
power, and pressure at different speeds and 



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under various restrictions to flow of air, in 
sizes from four to ten feet in diameter, and 
designed an extremely low pressure gauge 
for the purpose of the tests. He is a mem- 
ber of the Sigma Chi fraternity. 

Mr. Palen is the son of Edward F. and 
Elizabeth (Northrop) Palen. He married 
JMiss A'an Horn. February 8, 1898. 

Parish, William Henry (M.E., 02), was 
born in Newark, N. J., October 21, 1879; 
son of Mr. and Mrs. Thomas Parish. After 
attending Stevens Preparatory School, he 
worked one year before entering college, and 
after graduation was employed in the esti- 
mating and draughting department of the 
Herring-Hall-Marvin Safe Co., Hamilton, 
O., 1902: and is now inspector for the job- 
work department of the National Tube 




W. H. Parish 



Brooklyn, N. Y., 1890-91 ; and was engaged 
as assistant engineer from 1891 to 1894 in 
designing and construction, first on the Otis 
Elevating Railway Co., Catskill, N. Y., then 
on the steel construction and general engi- 
neering work on several of the large office 
buildings in New York city, and finally in 
the engineering work in connection with the 
installation of elevators in the Glasgow Har- 
bor Tunnel, Scotland. In 1894 Mr. Parker 
became associated with Mr. Charles W. 
Clinton, during which time he designed the 
steel construction in the Wilkes building and 
was g'eneral engineering superintendent for 
the construction of the Sheldon and Conti- 
nental Insurance Co. buildings. He became 
connected with the Otis Engineering Co. in 
1895, and was resident engineer during the 
construction of the Prospect Mountain In- 
cline at Lake George, N. Y. In 1896 he 
became president of the firm of Charles F. 
Parker & Co., doing a general engineering 
business, among its prominent contracts be- 
ing the design and construction of the Mount 
Tom Electric Incline Railway at Holyoke, 
Mass., in connection v.-ith which he patented 
a " turn-out " ; and the deepening of the 
Erie Canal at Lockport, N. Y. Upon the 
dissolution of this firm in 1898 he established 
an office for general consulting and engi- 
neering work, and was consulting engineer 
to the Sprague Electric Co., but became ill 
after a few months, and died October 10, 
1898. He was a junior member of the Ameri- 
can Society of Civil Engineers and a member 
of tlie Engineers" Club of New York. 

^Ir. Parker was the son of Andrew J. and 
Helen Darlington Parker. He married Amy 
\". Sackett, November 20, 1895, and one 
child, Charles A. Parker, was born to them. 



Works, i\IcKeesport, Pa. He is a member 
of the Phi Sigma Kappa and Theta Nu Epsi- 
lon fraternities. 

Parker, Charles Francis (]M.E., '84), was 
born in New York city November 17, 1862. 
He was assistant engineer with the Subur- 
ban Rapid Transit Co.. New York, then en- 
gaged in building the Suburban Elevated 
Railroad above the Harlem River. 1884-90; 
member of the firm of Filley, Parker, & 
Filley, tlie Eastern representative of the 
Harvev Fillev Aluminum Plating Co., of 



Parker, Franke Lecleicq (M.E., '93), was 
born in Shanghai, China, February 28, 1871 : 
son of Franke Henry and Marie (Leclercq) 
Parker. He worked his way through col- 
lege ; was employed on the Nezvs and Cour- 
ier, Charleston, S. C, 1893-94; was inspector 
for the Sanitary Security Co., New York, 
1894: engaged in electrical work for E. N. 
Bottsford in the Central Park apartments, 
1894-95 : with the Sprague Electric Elevator 
Co., New York, 1895 ' emplo3-ed in editorial 
work on the Engineering Record, New York, 
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York, on inspection, draughting, and drain- 
age work, 1896; in rapid transit survey work 
for H. de B. Parsons, New York, 1896-97; 
draughtsman with the MetropoHtan Street 
Railway Co., New York, during the period 




F. I,. Parker 

of conversion from horse to underground 
trolley power ; draughtsman with the Elec- 
trical Vehicle Co., and with Albert L. 
Webster, 1898; member of the Consolidated 
Stock and Petroleum Exchange, New York, 
1899-1900; and has been engaged in pro- 
fessional engineering work in Seattle, Wash., 
and at Nome, Alaska (two summers), from 
1900 to date. Since 1902 he has been presi- 
dent and general manager of the North Star 
Railway Co., organized under the laws of 
the State of Washington for the purpose of 
building a mining railroad from Nome, 
Alaska, to the interior. He is a member of 
the Delta Tau Delta fraternity, and a charter 
member of the Pacific Northwest Society of 
Engineers, Seattle, Wash. 

Parker, Thomas R. (M.E., '01), was with 
the Lehigh Valley Railroad Co., Easton, Pa., 
1901-02; and has been with the Coal Sav- 
ing & Heating Co., New York, from 1902 to 
date. 

Parsons, Harry de Berkeley (M.E., '84), 
was born in New York city January 6, 1862. 
He was graduated from Columbia College, 



New York, in 1882, with the degree of 
Bachelor of Science, and two years later re- 
ceived the degree of Mechanical Engineer 
from the Stevens Institute of Technology. 
Since graduating from the Institute he has 
practised as consulting engineer in New 
York. 

In 1886 he prepared plans for a tunnel un- 
der the Northumberland Straits from the 
mainland to Prince Edward's Island ; and 
during the winter of 1886-87 was assistant 
engineer on the construction of the Fort 
Worth & Rio Grande Railway from Fort 
Worth to Granbury, sinking the coffer-dams 
and erecting the piers for the Brazos River 
bridge. He acted as one of the consulting 
engineers for the Nicaragua Canal Construc- 
tion Co., and designed its machine-shops at 
San Juan del Norte, as well as boilers for 
some of the steamers owned by the Nica- 
ragua Mail, Steam Navigation, & Trading Co. 

Among the many industrial enterprises 
reported on or appraised by him, can be 
mentioned the Washington, D. C, street rail- 
ways ; the New Hampshire Traction Co. ; the 
Southern Car & Foundry Co. ; the St. Regis 
Paper Co. ; the Rogers Locomotive Works ; 
the Pressed Steel Car Co. ; the William 
Cramp Ship & Engine Building Co. ; the 
Seaboard Air Line Railway; the Crocker- 
Wheeler Co. ; the Bass Foundry & Ma- 
chine Co. including its iron ore lands; 
the Driggs-Seabury Gun & Ammunition 
Co. ; the H. W. Johns Manufacturing Co. ; 
and the Watertown & Carthage Trac- 
tion Co. He designed the electric trans- 
mission plant for the Schaghticoke Powder 
Co. ; and, associated with his brother, a 
24,000-horse-power electric power plant and 
the masonry dam, 156 feet high by 1,400 
feet long, for the Hudson River Water Power 
Co. He made plans for the dome of St. 
Matthew's Church, Washington, D. C. ; heat- 
ing plans for St. Paul's Church, Rochester, 
N. Y., and for Grace Church Settlement, 
New York ; and was consulted in regard to 
the foundations of the John C. Calhoun Mon- 
ument, Charleston, S. C, and the large stone 
columns of the Cathedral of St. John the 
Divine. He has done considerable work for 
the State of New York, especially in con- 
nection with the mechanical arrangements 
of the large State institutions. He has de- 
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plant for burning rubbish, for the City of 
New York. 

Mr. Parsons has been Professor of Steam 
Engineering at the Rensselaer Polytechnic 
Institute, Troy, N. Y., since 1891 ; is con- 
sulting engineer for the Audit Company of 




H. DE B. Parsons 

New York, for the New York Zoological 
Society, and also for many banking-houses 
in making examinations as to the value 
of industrial investments and combina- 
tions. 

A partial list of his writings is as fol- 
lows : 

"The Influence of Sugar upon Cement," paper 
read before the American Society of Mechanical 
Engineers. Transactions, IX, 286. 

"The Displacement and the Area-Curves of 
Fish," paper read before the American Society 
of Mechanical Engineers. Ibid., IX, 679. 

"An Improvised Ice-House." Railroad and 
Engineering Journal, April, i8go. 

" Was It Iron or Steel ? " Ibid., January, 
1892. 

"Mechanical Aeration of Water." Stevens 
Indicator, January, 1893. 

"Riveted Joints." Anicrican Engineer, Feb- 
ruary, 1893. 

"Great Ships for the Great Lakes." Harper's 
Weekly, May 5, 1894. 

"New York's Police Boat 'Patrol.' " Ibid., 
June 23, 1894. 

"New Police Boat for New York City," paper 
read before the American Society of Naval 
Engineers. Journal, VI, 345. 



"An Interesting Well Experience." Stevens 
Indicator, October, 1895. 

"Controversy about Boiler Efficiency." Engi- 
neering Record, February 22, 1896. 

"The Expert Engineer." Gassier' s Magazine, 
April, 1896. 

"Fire Boats." Ibid., May, 1896. 

"American Fire Boats," paper read before the 
Society of Naval Architects and Marine Engi- 
neers. Transactions, IV, 49. 

"The Law of the Conservation of Energy, as 
Related to Perpetual Motion and Similar Falla- 
cies." The Polytechnic , May 22, 1897. 

' ' Sewage Disposal. ' ' Stevens Indicator, Janu- 
ary, 1899. 

"The Tall Building under Test of Fire." 
Engineering Magazine, February, 1899. 

"Sewage Precipitation Works of New Ro- 
chelle, N. Y." Stevens Indicator, April, 1899. 

"Steam Pipes." Ibid., April, 1900. ■ 

"Fire Hazards," paper read before Franklin 
Institute. Journal of Franklin Institute, Sep- 
tember, 1900. 

"Heating and Ventilating." The Polytechnic, 
December 20, 1900. 

"Comparison of Rviles for Calculating the 
Strength of Steam Boilers," paper read before 
the American Society of Mechanical Engineers. 
Transactions, XXII, 127. 

"Grates for Steam Boilers." The Polytechnic, 
February 9, 1901. 

"Smoke Prevention." Ibid., June 3, 1902. 

"A Small Rock-Fill Dam," paper read before 
the American Society of Civil Engineers. Pro- 
ceedings, L, 351. 

"Steam Boilers — Their Theory and Design," 
published by Longmans, Green, & Co., New 
York, 1903. 

Mr. Parsons is an associate member of the 
American Society of Naval Engineers; and 
a member of the American Society of Civil 
Engineers ; the American Society of Me- 
chanical Engineers; the Society of Naval 
Architects and Marine Engineers ; the New 
York State Commission to Examine Vot- 
ing-Machines ; the Chamber of Commerce of 
the State of New York; the Engineers', 
Union, American Yacht, and Country clubs, 
and of the Delta Psi fraternity. He has 
been vice-president and president of the Ste- 
vens Institute Alumni Association, and was 
Alumni Trustee of the Stevens Institute of 
Technology, 1896-99. 

Mr. Parsons is the son of William Barclay 
and Eliza (Livingston) Parsons. He mar- 
ried Frances D. Walker, December 16, 1890, 
and they have two children, F. Livingston, 
and Katharine de B. Parsons. 



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Parsons, Washington Everett (M.E., '87), 
was born in Salisbury, Maryland, March 4, 
i860. Although his youth was spent on a 
farm he learned while there, to run a saw- 
mill, to erect machinery, and to survey land. 
He was at one time deputy county surveyor 
and for a while was assistant to one of the 
government engineers on rivers and harbors. 
He was draughtsman for E. J. Codd & Co., 
machinists at Baltimore, Md., and later en- 
tered Stevens Institute. 

He was Instructor during the Supplemen- 
tary Term at the Stevens Institute, 1887 ; was 
engaged in the engineering department of 
the United Gas Improvement Co., being em- 
ployed in its draughting department in 
Philadelphia, Pa., and at Jersey City, N. J., 
1887-88; superintendent of the Hunger- 
ford Co., New York, manufacturers of 
coffee-, rice-, and macaroni-machinery, 1888- 
90, during part of which time he conducted 
some special experimental work on treating 
binder twine, for the Chelsea Jute Mills: me- 
chanical engineer with the De La Vergne 
Refrigerating Machine Co., having charge of 
planning and installing a large number of 
refrigerating and ice-making plants, besides 
furnishing designs for different kinds of ap- 
paratus, etc., 1890-96; also conducting a 




W. E. Parsons 

number of tests, notably a series of tests of 
a Yaryan triple-effect evaporator working 
under vacuum, and a Quiggan triple-effect 



evaporator working above atmospheric pres- 
sure, both evaporating water from the East 
River, New York ; also a test of an am- 
monia car-motor. He represented the De 
La Vergne Co., for a short while, at the 
World's Fair in 1893. 

During a part of 1895 and 1836 he had 
charge of the designing, construction, etc., 
of a mammoth cotton compress, of the steam 
lever type. On May i, 1896, he became gen- 
eral manager of the Newark Hygeia Ice Co., 
and succeeded, in little over a year, in put- 
ting a formerly most unprofitable business on 
a solid paying basis. Since the year 1903 
he has devoted himself entirely to his pro- 
fessional engineering work, as consulting 
engineer and expert, with refrigerating and 
ice-making machines and plants a specialty. 
During the latter part of 1901 he was ap- 
pointed chairman of a board of experts to 
investigate and suggest improvements at a 
large ice-factory. 

Mr. Parsons contributed an article on 
" Tests of Quiggan Evaporators in Single, 
Double, and Triple Effect," to the Stevens 
Institute Indicator, 1901, and in the follow- 
ing year several articles on ice-making, etc., 
to Cold Storage. He is a member of the 
American Society of Mechanical Engineers; 
the American Society of Refrigerating En- 
gineers; the Cold Storage and Ice Associa- 
tion of London, Eng. (the first American to 
be elected a member) ; and of the Chi Psi 
fraternity. 

Mr. Parsons is the son of Milton Alfred 
and Caroline Travers (Williams) Parsons. 
He married Estelle Virginia Barnett, No- 
vember 7, 1889, and they have one child liv- 
ing, Helen Barnett Parsons ; a son, Milton 
Alfred, and a daughter, Estelle Virginia Par- 
sons, are deceased. 

Parsons, W. P. (M.E., '80), was with the 
W. A. Wood Mowing & Reaping Co., 
Hoosic Falls, N. Y., 1884-92; chief draughts- 
man with the Trenton Iron Co., Trenton, 
N. J., 1892-93 ; assistant superintendent with 
the Southern Cotton Harvester Co., Eastwood 
Mill, Paterson, 1893-95 ! located at Hoosic 
Falls, N. Y., 1895^6; with L. K. Davis, New 
York, 1896-97; with the General Electric 
Co., Schenectady, N. Y., 1897-98; superin- 
tendent with the Pittsburg Gas & Coke Co., 
Glassport, Pa., 1898-1900; consulting engi- 



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neer, with the Matteawan Manufacturing 
Co., Matteawan, N. Y., 1900-02; with the 
Maryland Steel Co., Sparrow's Point, Md., 
1902-04 ; and is now with the American Coke 
& Gas Construction Co., Buffalo, N. Y. 

Patterson, Arthur Wellesley, Jr. (M.E., 
'92). was born in New York city, January 
21, 1872; son of Arthur Wellesley and Mary 
Patterson. He has been in the employ of 
the Rand Drill Co., as chief draughtsman at 
Tarrytown, N. Y., 1897— 1903 ; and mechani- 
cal engineer at the main office. New York, 
from 1903 to date. He is a member of the 




A. W. P.'VTIERSON, Jr. 

American Society of Mechanical Engineers ; 
and of the Beta Theta Pi fraternity. 

Paulding, Charles P. (M.E., '95), was as- 
sistant in the office of the superintendent of 
motive power of the Calumet & Hecla Min- 
ing Co., Calumet, Mich., 1895-96; and later 
was draughtsman with the D.etrick & Harvey 
Machine Co., Baltimore, with the W. D. 
Forbes Co., Hoboken, and with the Ameri- 
can Impulse Wheel Co., New York; and 
again with the W. D. Forbes Co. as foreman. 
In 1897 he passed a civil-service examina- 
tion for the position of junior engineer, in- 
spector's grade, in the War Department, 
receiving the appointment of inspector on 
river and harbor work at Newport, but, being 
at the time in the employ of the W. D. 



Forbes Co., declined the appointment. He 
is now head office man with H. B. Roelker, 
New York. Mr. Paulding has contributed 
articles to the "American Machinist," the 
" Engineering News," and the " Stevens In- 
stitute Indicator," and, jointly with Col. E. 
A. Stevens, a paper to the Society of Naval 
Architects, of which he is a junior member. 

Paulsen, John ( M.E., '93 ) , has been super- 
intendent of the Beaufort Phosphate Co., 
Beaufort, S. C, from 1893 to date. 

Peabody, Ernest Henry (M.E., '90), was 
born in Knoxville, Tenn., June 30, 1869; son 
of D. W. and Mary H. (Saltmarsh) Pea- 
body. His father was a graduate of Dart- 
mouth College and was a prominent lawyer 
of Nashville, holding successively important 
municipal and Federal offices until his death 
in 1879. His mother established one of the 
first manual-training schools in this country 
in 1878, at Cincinnati, O., and later became 
known as a lecturer and author on subjects 
pertaining to the kindergarten, history, art, 
and literature. 

Mr. Peabody was rodman on construction 
work with the Norfolk & Western Railroad, 
spending the summer of 1890 in the West 
Virginia mountains; was draughtsman for a 
company designing and manufacturing elec- 
trical generators, 1890-91 ; and was em- 
ployed in a similar capacity on special archi- 
tectural work in the latter year. 

He entered the employ of the Babcock & 
Wilcox Co. in 1891, and spent two years in 
the various departments of its draughting- 
room. Wishing to have some outside ex- 
perience he then requested a transfer to the 
erecting department, and he was sent to the 
Homestead Steel Works about the end of 
the famous strike, to assist in the erection 
of new boilers. Later he had charge of such 
work, and spent six months as a mechanic 
on repair work, thus gaining a valuable ex- 
perience with boilers in actual service. 

From time to time during this period he 
had been employed as an assistant in making 
evaporative tests of boilers, and when the 
Babcock & Wilcox Co. began to develop its 
marine boiler, which has become such an 
important factor in modern marine engi- 
neering, he was selected to conduct a series 
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making- a thorough study of this generator, 
its performance with different fuels, methods 
of handhng same, various styles of setting, 
etc. 

Other experimental work, such as circu- 
lation of water in boiler-tubes, methods of 




E. H. Peabody 

sampling steam and testing its quality, 
strength of materials used in boiler-making, 
etc., was carried out under his direction, and 
later a department of tests was estabHshed 
and he became its head. In this capacity 
and as the expert representative of the Bab- 
cock & Wilcox Co., Mr. Peabody has had 
charge of a great variety of engineering 
work, including trial trips of steam vessels, 
guarantee boilei' trials, engine tests, and con- 
siderable experimental work. He has visited 
Cuba and travelled extensively in all parts 
of the United States, studying the local 
methods of burning special fuels, such as 
coal, lignite, oil, sawdust, rice chaff, etc. 

A liberal policy on the part of his em- 
ployers has enabled him to make what is 
probably one of the most complete collections 
in existence of data covering the origin, heat 
value, chemical analysis, and evaporative 
results of many kinds of fuel, boiler trials of 
every description, and much miscellaneous 
information pertaining to the subject. 

Mr. Peabody spent the winter of 1902-03 
in California, conducting an exhaustive series 
of experiments in burning the heavy crude 



petroleum produced by that State. This 
work resulted in the invention by him of a 
furnace especially designed to meet the re- 
quirements of heavy oils. 

Mr. Peabody is a member of the American 
Society of Mechanical Engineers, and an 
associate member of the American Society 
of Naval Engineers. 

Pearce, Chouteau E. (M.E., '91), was with 
the J. M. Ives Co., Danbury, Conn., 1891- 
96; chief draughtsman with the John Steph- 
enson Car Co., New York, and Elizabeth, 
N. J., 1897-1900; and has been with Mr. 
Charles H. Davis, who is engaged in pro- 
fessional engineering work in New York, 
from 1900 to date. 

Peck, Charles Botsford (M.E., 96), was 
born in Brooklyn, N. Y,, March 10, 1874^ 
He has been in the New York office of the 




C. B. Peck 

B. F. Sturtevant Co., since graduation, and 
is now the New York manager. He is a 
member of the American Society of Me- 
chanical Engineers, and of the Tau Beta Pi 
fraternity. 

Mr. Peck is the son of Charles A. and 
Mary E. (Oliver) Peck. He married Helen 
Rice May, of Lee, Mass., June 19, 1900. 

Peebles, Robert Payne (M.E., '99), en- 
tered the Homestead Steel Works of the 



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Carnegie Steel Co., at Munhall, Pa., shortly 
after graduation, and met his death by 
drowning, November 28, 1899. 




J. C. Percy 

Peirce, John Royden (M.E., '00), was born 
in Frankfort, Me., February 11, 1878; son 
of John and Mary Helen Peirce. He is de- 
scended from Capt. Michael Peirce, who 
came to America in 1660 and was killed while 
leading his company against the Indians in 
King Philip's War. He attended school for 
a year in Wiesbaden, Germany. Since grad- 
uation has been estimating clerk with the 
New York & Maine Paving Block Co., New 
York, 1900-04; and is now with the Empire 
City Marble Co., New York. He is a mem- 
ber of the Chi Phi fraternity. 

Peirce, William H. (M.E., "84), was special 
apprentice in the Philadelphia, Wilmington. 
& Baltimore Division of the Pennsyl- 
vania Railroad, Wilmington, Del., 1884-87 ; 
draughtsman, assistant engineer of tests, and 
assistant master mechanic on the Chicago, 
Burlington, & Quincy Railroad, 1887-89; 
superintendent of marine installations for 
the Edison United Manufacturing Co., 1889- 
91 ; and has been with the Baltimore Copper 
Smelting & Rolling Co. (since 1894 as mana- 
ger of works), from 1891 to date. He is a 
member of the American Institute of Mining 
Engineers, and of the American Society of 
Mechanical Engineers. 



Percy, John Crocker (M.E., "00), was born 
in Chatham, N. Y., June 29, 1875. He en- 
tered the Riverside department of the Na- 
tional Tube Co., Wheeling, W. Va., where he 
became superintendent of blast-furnace, 1900- 
02 ; was in charge of estimating, ordering, 
and draughting departments of the Best 
Manufacturing Co., Pittsburg, Pa., 1902; 
general foreman of the blast-furnace depart- 
ment of the Colorado Fuel & Iron Co., at 
Pueblo, Colo., 1902-03 ; engaged in furnace 
construction at the Illinois Steel Co.'s works, 
Joliet, 111., 1903 ; and since January, 1904, 
has been chief engineer in the purifying de- 
partment of the Wm. B. Scaife & Sons Co., 
manufacturers of water softening and puri- 
fying systems and water-filters, at Pittsburg, 
Pa. He is a member of the American Insti- 
tute of Mining Engineers and of the Theta 
Nu Epsilon fraternity. 

Mr. Percy is the son of George R. and 
Abby C. Percy. He married Elizabeth Sut- 
ton, of New York, June 28, 1904. 

Perkins, George S. (M.E., '91), was with 
the Dow Type-Composing Co., New York, 
1892-95 ; the East Jersey Water Co., Mont- 
clair, N. J., 1895-1900; and has been assistant 
engineer with Robert F. Wentz, consulting 
engineer, Nazareth, Pa., from 1900 to date. 




Petersen, Reinhold (M.E., '98), was born 
11 Albany, N. Y., October 24, 1875. H^ 



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has been in the telephone engineering and 
draughting department of the Western Elec- 
tric Co., New York, since graduation. 

Mr. Petersen is the son of Rev. J. C. J. 
and S. M. Petersen. He married Anna Au- 
guste Henriette Denecke, June 18, 1902. 

Pfordte, Otto F. (M.E., '86), studied for two 
semesters at the Royal Mining Academy in 
Freiberg, and visited the mining districts 
and metallurgical establishments in Saxony, 
and in the Hartz Mountains. Returning, he 
took charge of concentrating and assay work 
in Bisbee, Arizona, and Cusihuiriachic in 
Chihuahua, Mexico, and then spent two 
years in Peru as superintendent of the 
" Establecimiento Mineral de Casapalca " 
in the Andes, east of Lima, Peru. He 
travelled extensively in the interior, vis- 
iting a number of important mining regions, 
returned to New York, and accepted a posi- 
tion as assistant engineer of an exploration 
trip, for the Peruvian Exploration Syndi- 
cate, into the gold regions of Sandia, Peru ; 
and to a number of famous silver and tin 
mines in Bolivia. He afterward returned 
to New York and then went to Germany 
and Austria to visit a number of mining 
districts there. On his return to the United 
States he did some private literary work, 
and then became superintendent of the Hec- 
tor Concentrating Mill, Telluride, Colo. ; 
and, later, superintendent of the Chispas 
mine in Arizpe, Sonora, Mexico. He has 
been to Chalchihuites, Zacatecas, Mexico, to 
inspect several mining properties, and has 
visited a number of interesting mines and 
metallurgical establishments in this country 
and Mexico. 

His literary work includes among others, 
the following productions : 

"Corrugated vs. Plain Belts." Trans. Am. 
Inst. Min. Eng.^ 

"The Cerro de Pasco Mining District." Ibid. ; 
reprinted in Gassier' s Magazine. 

"Placer Mining in South America." Gassier s 
Magazine, X. 

"The Oruro Mining District." Engineering 
and Mining Journal. 

"The Ore-Dressing and Smelting Works at 
Casapalca, Peru." Stevens Indicator, IX. 

"The Mining District of Oruro, Bolivia." 
Engineering and Mining Journal. 

' " Transactions of the American Institute of Mining 
Engineers." 



' ' Calculations of Concentrating Ores . " Trans . 
Am. Inst. Min. Eng.; also translated into Span- 
ish in El Miiiero Mejicano. 

He is a prominent contributor to the Span- 
ish Mining Dictionary issued by the Ameri- 
can Institute of Mining Engineers, and has 
contributed a number of interesting minerals 
to the United States National Museum in 
Washington, D. C, and the American Mu- 
seum of Natural History in New York city. 

Mr. Pfordte is a member of the American 
Institute of Mining Engineers, and of the 
New York Mineralogical Club. 

Phelps, Walter F. (M.E., '90), was 
draughtsman and inspector with the Barney 
& Smith Car Co., Dayton, O., 1890-91 ; and 
has been superintendent, and, later, president 
of the Dayton Fan & Motor Co., from 1891 
to date. 

Phillips, Louis A. (M.E., '00), was born 
in Albany, N. Y., January 27, 1879. He was 
assistant elettrical engineer wfth the Pull- 
man Co., Jersey City, N. -J^ 1900-01 ; was 
employed jointly, by the Niagara Falls 
Power Co., and the Cataract Power & Con- 
duit Co.,- as assistant commercial engineer. 




L. A. Phillips 

1901-02; with the Pullman Co., Jersey City, 
N. J., 1902 ; in the mechanical departinent of 
the George A. Fuller Co., 1903 ; and has been 
with Edwin Burhorn, M.E., since 1903. 



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Mr. Phillips is the son of Edward and 
Agnes (Fisher) Phillips,, and is of Colonial 
descent. He married Anna V. B. Kip in 
June, 1901. 

Pierce, James Buchanan (M.E., 'yy^, was 
born at Mount Hickory, Mercer County, Pa., 




J. B. Pierce 

September 2, 1856. He was manager at the 
Mount Hickory Blast Furnaces, Sharpes- 
ville, Pa., 1878-84; and has been general 
manager of the Sharpesville Furnace Co., 
from 1885 to date. During the year 1901 he 
travelled in Great Britain and on the conti- 
nent of Europe with his family. He is a 
member of the American Society of Mining 
Engineers, and was the founder of the Rho 
chapter of the Delta Tau Delta fraternity at 
Stevens Institute. 

Mr. Pierce is the son of James and Chloe 
(Holbrook) Pierce, both of English descent. 
He married Albertina Pomplitz, June 17, 
1880, and they have two children living, 
Pauline and James B., Jr., Pierce. (Louise 
Pierce deceased 1891.) 

Pierson, John V. L. (M.E., '88), has been 
in the employ of the Edison Phonograph 
Co., Orange, N. J., and the De Loch Mill & 
Manufacturing Co., Atlanta, Ga. ; was en- 
gaged in gold-mining near Los Angeles, 
Cal. ; and employed as salesman for a steam- 
pipe covering house. He is located at Glen 



Ridge, N. J.^ but is not employed at present 
upon engineering work. 

Pierson, William Dickson (M.E., '94), was 
born in Orange, N. J., September 24, 1872; 
son of Edward Dickson and Lelia P. (James) 
Pierson. On his father's side he is descended 
from Thomas Pierson who settled in Bran- 
ford, Conn., before 1662. Thomas Pierson 
was a brother of Abraham Pierson, the first 
president of Yale College. He was employed 
in the machine-shop of the National Meter 
Co., South Brooklyn, N. Y., 1894; and was 
draughtsman with the Farrel Foundry & Ma- 
chine Co., Waterbury, Conn., 1895. On Jan- 
uary I, 1896, he became draughtsman for the 
Waterbury Machine Co., Waterbury, and 
was engaged upon continuous wire-drawing 
machinery, presses for blanking and form- 
ing sheet-metal goods, machine tools, and 
automatic machinery for working metal and 
wire goods. He Avas placed in charge of the 
draughting-room early in 1900, and in July 
of the same year was elected secretary of the 
company. On December i, 1898, he became 
one of the organizers, and secretary of the 
Waterbury Wire Die Co. manufacturers of 
diamond and other dies for drawing wire. 

Two articles by Mr. Pierson, descriptive 
of continuous wire-drawing machines, ap- 
peared in the Iron Age. Other articles on 




Wire-Drawing Machine 
W. D. Pierson 

the above subject and on diamond dies for 
wire-drawing, have been published in va- 
rious papers. He also contributed an inter- 
esting article on " Dies for Drawing Wire — 
Their Manufacture and Use," to the Stevens 
Institute Indicator, 1901. He is a member 
of the Waterbury Club, and of the Gradu- 
ates' Club of New Haven. 

Plaisted, Harold M. (M.E., '83), was mill- 
wright with John Webster, mill-builder, De- 
troit, Mich., 1883-84; with the E. P. Allis & 



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Co., Milwaukee, Wis., 1884; draughtsman, 
foreman, and contract superintendent of the 
Chicago, Milwaukee, & St. Paul Railway 
Co., Milwaukee, 1884-88; designer and as- 
sistant foreman for the Barney & Smith 
Manufacturing Co., Dayton, O., 1889; me- 
chanical engineer and patent solicitor at 
Springfield, O., 1889-93 ; and has been a 
member of the firm of Plaisted & Co., patent 
solicitors, St. Louis, Mo., and Washington, 
D. C, 1893 to date. 

Mr. Plaisted has contributed several arti- 
cles to The Raihvay Age on " Car-Building 
and Inspecting ; " a paper on " Double-Deck 
Car," to Whipple's Engineering Magazine; 
and articles on friction, lubrication, shafting, 
gearing, etc., for farm machinery, to the 
Age of Steel, besides writing numerous ar- 
ticles on patents, patent law, etc. 



representing the C. W. 
Brighton, N. Y. 



Hunt Co., West New 




G. G. Plyer 

Plum, Frank H. (M.E.. '96), was motive 
inspector and special apprentice with the 
Pittsburg, Columbus, Cincinnati, & St. Louis 
Railroad, and later a member of the firm of 
Dunlap & Plum, manufacturers of pneu- 
matic tools and railway specialties,, after- 
ward incorporated as the Columbus Pneu- 
matic Tool Co., of which Mr. Plum was 
elected vice-president, a position he held 
until 1902. He was assistant to the manager 
of the John R. Williams Co., Newark, N. J., 
1902-04 ; with the corps of engineers of the 
Committee of Twenty, of the National Board 
of Fire LTnderwriters, 1904; and is now 



Plyer, George Gregg (M.E., '89), was 
born in New York city June 8, 1867. He 
was special agent for the Lancashire Insur- 
ance Co., of Manchester, England, at Phila- 
delphia, Pa., 1892-1901 ; and has been special 
agent and adjuster for the Continental Fire 
Insurance Co. of New York, at Philadelphia, 
Pa., from 1901 to date. He is a member of 
the Alpha Delta Phi fraternity. 

Mr. Plyer married Clara M. Franklin, 
June 6, 1895. 

Poinier, P. P. (M.E., '74), was a "Resi- 
dent Graduate " at the time of his death in 
1876. Of Mr. Poinier, Prof. Leeds spoke as 
follows in his farewell address to the students 
of Stevens Institute, February 20, 1902 : 

"Among these was one, a Mr. Poinier, who 
developed so marvelous a faculty in mathe- 
matics that he quickly outstripped all the teach- 
ing of the Institute, engaged in reading the 
most profound works on that subject, and com- 
pleted a treatise on thermodynamics so remark- 
able that Prof. Henrj^ Rowland, of Johns Hop- 
kins University, undertook the editorship of it; 
and his death, which followed very shortly and 
unexpectedly after graduation, was so lamented 
that Lord Kelvin, in his address that year, as 
President of the British Association for the 
Advancement of Science, chronicled the death 
of this very young student of the Institute as 
one of the great losses to science." 

Pope, Oliver Ashley Alexander (M.E., 
'96), was born in West Milton, O., February 
16, 1874; son of W. G. E. and Georgiana 
Pope. He is a descendant of John Rogers, 
the Martyr, and William Greenleaf, who as 
sheriff of Boston first read the Declaration 
of Independence in Boston, from the State 
House balcony. The subject of this sketch 
was assistant engineer with the H. W. 
Johns-Manville Co., New York, 1896-98; in 
the inspection department of the Fidelity & 
Casualty Co., New York, 1899; engineer for 
the Willson Aluminum Co., New York, 1900. 
He went south during this year and assisted 
in the construction of an electric smelting 
plant at Kanawha Falls, W. Va. ; with the 
H. W. Johns-Manville Co., New York, as su- 
perintendent of their paper-mill, 1901 ; with 
Arbuckle Bros., Brooklyn, N. Y., being at- 



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tached to the engineering staff of the sugar 
refinery, 1901-04; and is now associate engi- 
neer with Edwin Burhorn, New York city. 

He addressed the Brooklyn Engineering 
Society in 1902 on " The Manufacture and 
Uses of Ferro-Chrome and Other Alloys." 
He is a member of the Brooklyn Engineers' 
Club, the University Club of Brooklyn, and 
the Alpha Tau Omega and Theta Nu Epsilon 
fraternities. 

Post, Andrew Jackson (M.E.^ '92), was 
born in Jersey 'City, N. J., November 17, 




A. J. Post 

1871. He was draughtsman with Post & 
McCord, engineers and contractors, New 
York, 1892-1900; in 1900, when the Post & 
McCord business became a part of the 
American Bridge Co., he was appointed 
principal assistant engineer at the works in 
Brooklyn, N. Y., and on January i, 1902 
(upon the resignation of Mr. Henry W. 
Post), he was appointed chief engineer, 
which position he held until December, 1903, 
when he resigned to become secretary and 
chief engineer of a new company incorpo- 
rated under the old name of Post & McCord. 
He is a member of the Blooming Grove Park 
Association and of the Chi Phi fraternity. 

Mr. Post is the son of Andrew Jackson 
and Margaret (Combe) Post. His grand- 
father, Simeon S. Post, was at one time chief 
engineer of the Erie Railroad, consulting en- 



gineer of the Long Dock Co., inventor of the 
modern baggage check, and of the Post 
truss, which was used for a number of years 
in the days of cast-iron bridges ; he was also 
one of the charter members of the American 
Society of Civil Engineers. His father, An- 
drew Jackson Post (deceased, 1896), who 
was of English descent, was senior member 
of Post & McCord, since absorbed by the 
American Bridge Co.. The subject of this 
sketch married Mary Briggs Abbett (daugh- 
ter of ex-Governor Leon Abbett, of New Jer- 
sey), April II, 1894, and they have two chil- 
dren, Andrew J., Jr., and Leon Abbett Post. 

Post, Arden (M.E., '91), was inspector in 
the department of tests of the Baltimore & 
Ohio Railroad, Mount Clare, Baltimore, Md., 
1891-93; draughtsman with the Peckham 
Motor, Truck, & Wheel Co., and later with 
the Metropolitan Street Railway Co., New 
York. In the latter position his duties con- 
sisted mainly in laying out railway curves 
and in designing track work and automatic 
devices for handling cable. He was also en- 
gaged upon designs for the underground 
electric road now in operation on that sys- 
tem. He was employed as inspector in the 
test department of the New York Gas & 
Electric Light, Heat, & Power Co. for two 
years, and later by the New York Edison 
Co. as agent and engineer in closing down 
isolated plants ; and was engaged from July, 
1902, to June, 1904, as consulting engineer 
for the University Power Co., designing and 
installing- the heating and lighting plant at 
Princeton LTniversity. 

Post, Henry Willis (M.E., '74), was born 
in Owego, Tioga County, N. Y., October 30, 
1852. He spent a year and a half at Cornell 
University in the Class of 1873. He was 
draughtsman with the Watson Manufactur- 
ing Co., Paterson, N. J., 1874-76, and worked 
also in the pattern shop and foundry as ap- 
prentice. He was chief draughtsman and 
chief engineer with Post & McCord, Brook- 
lyn, N. Y., 1876-1900; and engineer and 
later manager of the Brooklyn plant of the 
American Bridge Co., 1900-02, the nature 
of his work since 1876 being mainly the de- 
signing and construction of bridges, roofs, 
and structural iron and steel work of various 
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buildings. In 1902 Mr. Post commenced prac- 
tice as a consulting structural engineer. He 
is a member of the Theta Xi fraternity. 
Mr. Post is the son of Simeon S. and 




Parthenia W. Post. He married Jwliana 
MacBride, April 13, 1887, and they have two 
children, Ronald Willis and Henry Willis 
Post, Jr. 

Post, Lionel (M.E., '99), was born in 
South Amboy, N. J., July 5, 1875 ; son of 
Richard Bayley and Eliza Deane Post. Pie 
was with the Edison Electric Illuminating 
Co., New York, 1899; superintendent of con- 
struction with the Ransome Concrete Co., 
New York, 1899-1901 ; superintendent of 
construction with the Cuba Supply Co., Ha- 
vana, Cuba, 1901 ; in brokerage business, 
1902; superintendent of the Natural Carbonic 
Gas Co., engaged in erecting plant at Sarato- 
ga Springs, N. Y., 1902; in the sales depart- 
ment of the Alphons Custodis Chimney 
Construction Co., 1903 ; and is now associated 
with Messrs. Bellman & Sanford, general 
constructors of power-plants, New York. 

Post, Robert Cox (M.E., '98), was born in 

Jersey City, N. J., October 6, 1877. He 
was with the United Gas Improvement Co., 
Philadelphia, 1898-1900; assistant superin- 
tendent of that company's works at Atlanta, 
Ga., 1900; and was superintendent and agent 



of the company's business at Sag Harbor, 
N. Y., 1900-01. During the latter year he 
resigned to take a position as contracting 
agent in the Metropolitan district for the 
American Bridge Co., of New York. This 
position he held until December, 1903, when 
he resigned to go with a new company incor- 
porated under the old name of Post & Mc- 
Cord, New York. He is a member of the 
University Club of Philadelphia; the Uni- 
versity Club of Jersey City; the Blooming 
Grove Park Association; and of the Chi Phi 
fraternity. 

Mr. Post is the son of Andrew Jackson 
and Margaret (Combe) Post. (For note 
of ancestry, see biography of his brother, 
Andrew Jackson Post.) He married Eliza- 
beth Dixon (daughter of Supreme Court 
Justice Dixon of New Jersey), January 19, 
1904. 




Lionel Post 

Post, William Combe (M.E., '86), was 
born in Jersey City, N. J., January i, 1867; 
son of Andrew J. and Margaret (Combe) 
Post. He was draughtsman for Post & Mc- 
Cord, 1886-96, and chief draughtsman 
1896-1901. Upon the organization of the 
American Bridge Co. in the latter year he 
was appointed contracting engineer in the 
Metropolitan district. In 1902 he became 
contracting manager in charge of sales in the 
same district, with offices in New York. On 
January i, 1904, he resigned his position 
with the American Bridge Co. to become 



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vice-president and treasurer of the new cor- 
poration of Post & McCord, organized to do 
a steel construction business for building 
work in New York and vicinity. He is a 
member of the Carteret, the Crescent Ath- 
letic, and the Chelsea Plantation clubs ; the 
Jersey City and Baltusrol golf clubs ; the 
Blooming Grove Park Association; and of 
the Beta Tlieta Pi fraternity. He was presi- 
dent of the Alumni Association of the Ste- 
vens Institute of Technology, 1903-04, and 
in June, 1904, was elected Alumni Trustee 
of the Institute. 

Powell, William Betts (M.E., '92), was 
born in Brooklyn, N. Y., October 30, 1871. 
He was engaged in contracting work with 




W. B. Powell 

his classmate, Mr. H. D. King, under the 
firm name of the King Engineering Co., 
1892-94. Mr. Powell gave up this work to 
enter the fight made against the consolida- 
tion of Brooklyn with New York by the 
League of Loyal Citizens of Brooklyn. He 
was engaged with the League for nearly two 
years (1894-96), having charge of all their 
organization work, canvassing, and publica- 
tions. In the latter year he entered the em- 
ploy of the Midford Salvage Co., engaged in 
raising wrecked vessels by pneumatic cais- 
sons. Starting as draughtsman with this 
company he obtained rapid promotion, and at 
the end of six months, when the company 



failed, he was first assistant superintendent. 
He then became boiler inspector for the 
Hartford Steam Boiler Inspection & Insur- 
ance Co., at Baltimore, for a few months in 
1897, but resigned to take the position of 
teacher of mechanical drawing and mathe- 
matics in the Manual Training High School 
of Brooklyn, which he held from 1897 to 
1902. In the latter year he became assistant 
superintendent, and in 1904 was advanced to 
superintendent, of the Worcester Salt Co., 
Silver Springs, N. Y. These works are the 
largest single salt-works in the country, and 
the first where evaporation by means of 
vacuum pans was successfully accomplished. 
Mr. Powell is the son of Ardon K. and 
Mary B. Powell. He is descended from 
Thomas Powell, who came to Long Island 
about 1650; also from Joseph Betts, who set- 
tled in Delaware about the same time. He 
married Mabel Whiton, June 30, 1898, and 
they have one son. 

Powers, Edgar Taylor (M.E., '97), was 
born in Richmond, Va., June 9, 1876; son of 
Robert W. and Juliet Colton Powers. He 
was employed with the East River Gas Co., 
Long Island City, N. Y. (which became 
merged with the New Amsterdam Gas Co. 
in 1898), and in 1900 was advanced to the 
position of superintendent of distribution. 
In May, 1901, he became general manager of 
the Lincoln Gas & Electric Co., Lincoln, 
Neb.; next (1902) practised as consulting 
engineer in Chicago, and went thence to 
Memphis, Tenn., as consulting engineer to 
the Equitable Gas Co. of that city. In Feb- 
ruary, 1903, he became secretary of the Con- 
solidated Gas Co. of Baltimore, Md. He is 
a member of the Beta Theta Pi and Tau 
Beta Pi fraternities. 

Pracy, Joseph (M.E., '81), had served an 
apprenticeship in the shops of Walkington 
& Kidd, San Francisco, Cal., and had ad- 
vanced to the position of superintendent with 
this firm, when he decided to enter the Ste- 
vens School in 1876, preparatory to his ad- 
mission to the Institute a year later. After 
graduating from the Institute he returned 
to San Francisco, where he successfully con- 
ducted a machine-shop for nearly ten years. 
An increasing business, requiring constant 
attention and application, aggravated a heart 



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trouble of lone 
July 22, 1 89 1. 



standing", from which he died 



Pratt, Clayton A. (M.E., '85), was with 
the Pullman Palace Car Co., Pullman, 111., 
1886-87; member of the firm of C. A. Pratt 
& Co., engine-builders, Chicago, 111., 1887- 
89; superintendent of a mining company at 
Austin, Nev., and is now with Armour & 
Co., South Omaha, Neb. 

Prentiss, H. J. (M.E., '89), was with the 
Long Distance Telegraph & Telephone Co., 
New York, 1890-94; later became a student 
in the College of Physicians & Surgeons, 
New York, and is now Professor of Anat- 
omy at Iowa State College, Iowa City, la. 




H. S. Prentiss 

Prentiss, Henry Smith (M.E., '84), was 
born in Switzerland July 6, 1859. He grad- 
uated at Princeton in 1882, from the full 
academic course and some specials in the 
scientific course. He was engaged on ex- 
perimental work with the Ferracute Machine 
Co., Bridgeton, N. J., under the direction of 
Mr. Oberlin Smith, 1884-85 ; on experi- 
mental work with the Hammond Typewriter 
Co., New York, during which he produced 
one of the first " drop cabinets," manifolding 
improvements, etc., 1885-87; was superin- 
tendent, secretary, and treasurer of the 
Prentiss Calendar & Time Co., New York, 
1887-90; lessee and manager of the same 



company, 1892-94; and has been president 
and manager of the Prentiss Clock Improve- 
ment Co., New York, from 1894 to date. 
The company makes a specialty of manufac- 
turing sixty-day, calendar, electric, pro- 
gramme, electric tower, and self-winding" 
clocks, synchronized and telemetric systems, 
time switches, etc. 

He has taken out about twenty patents on 
improvements in clocks, — synchronizing de- 
vices, calendars, etc., — and has also invented 
a complete automatic typewriter, not yet on 
the market. He is a member of Whig Hall, 
Princeton. 

Mr. Prentiss is the son of George Lewis 
and Elizabeth Payson Prentiss. His father. 
Rev. George L. Prentiss, D.D., was Professor 
in Union Theological Seminary, New York, 
and his mother, a religious writer of con- 
siderable note, was the author of " Stepping 
Heavenward," and other works. He mar- 
ried Lila Roberts, June 25, 1889, and they 
have two children, Charlotte Roberts, and 
Elizabeth Payson Prentiss. 

Prince, Duffield (M.E., '98), was born in 
Flatbush, L. I., April 7, 1876, son of Christo- 
pher and Sarah Barrea (Zabriskie) Prince. 
He was with the Edison Electric Illumina- 
ting Co. of Brooklyn, first as assistant super- 




DuFFiELD Prince 

intendent of steam plant and then as assist- 
ant to chief engineer, 1898-1902; designing 



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and constructing engineer for W. S. Bars- 
tow, consulting engineer, New York, from 
1902 to date. He is a member of the Knick- 
erbocker Field Club of Brooklyn. 

Prince, William B. (M.E., '00), has been 
with the Bishop & Babcock Co., Cleveland, 
manufacturers of air-compressors, water- 
lifts, carbonic-acid gas and carbonating ma- 
chinery, from 1900 to date. Since January, 
1902, he has acted as mechanical and elec- 
trical engineer and carbonator expert, be- 
ing stationed at Cleveland, O., and engaged 
in testing and designing apparatus for the 
automatic and continuous carbonation of wa- 
ter by hand, hydraulic, electrical, steam, and 
belt power, and since July, 1903, he has, in 
addition, been assistant superintendent at the 
main factory of the company at Cleveland. 

Pryor, Frederick L. (M.E., '97), Assistant 
Professor of Experimental Engineering at 
Stevens Institute of Technology. For bio- 
graphy, see page 275. 

Pryor, Robert Westall, Jr. (M.E., 02), 
was born in Newark, N. J., July 31, 1881 ; 
son of Robert W. and Rachel A. Pryor. He 
has been in the sales department of the Buf- 
falo Forg-e Co. since eraduation. He is a 




Pulsford, Ernest (M.E., '94), was born in 
South Orange, N. J., November 2, 1873 ; son 
of James E. and Josephine Allston Pulsford. 
He was employed in the machine-shop of 
the New York Central Railroad Co., Buffalo, 
1894-95; was draughtsman with Messrs. 




R. W. Pryor, Jr. 



member of the Delta Tau Delta and Tau 
Beta Pi fraternities. 



Ernest Pulspord 

Wilhelm & Bonner, patent attorneys, Buffalo, 
N. Y., 1895-97, and with Charles H. Davis, 
consulting engineer. New York, 1897-98 ; 
and was in the employ of the Lidgerwood 
Manufacturing Co., New York, 1898-1900. 
During the latter year Mr. Pulsford decided 
to give up engineering, and he began a course 
of study for the ministry, at the General 
Theological Seminary of the Protestant Epis- 
copal Church in New York. In June, 1902, 
he was offered a position in the Smithsonian 
Institution for three months, and while fill- 
ing this he decided to return to engineering, 
remaining at the Smithsonian Institution till 
May I, 1903, when he opened an office in 
Washington, D. C, as consulting engineer. 

Quimby, William Everett (M.E., '87), 
was born in Orange, N. J., March i, 1866. 
He was employed at the Minneapolis Har- 
vester Works, Minneapolis, Minn., 1887-88; 
with the Weston Electrical Instrument Co., 
Newark, N. J., 1888-90; assistant superin- 
tendent with the John Patten Manufacturing 
Co., New York, experimenting with a 
vacuum ice machine, 1890-93. 



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In November, 1893, he patented a screw 
pump having peculiar features which makes 
it particularly well adapted for direct con- 
nection with electric motors, and also for 
the handling of thick liquids. In January, 




VV. E. QUIMBY 

1894, he resigned his position with the John 
. Patten Manufacturing Co., and since that 
date has devoted his time to the manufacture 
and sale of this pump, under the firm name 
of William E. Quimby, Inc. The pump has 
rapidly made a place for itself, and is used 
for hydro-electric elevator service, and has 
also found a considerable field in the auto- 
matic supplying of water for sanitary pur- 
poses in city buildings. In handling thick 
liquids it has been successfully applied to 
various sugar liquors, lard, tallow, and many 
other substances, as well as for pumping oil, 
especially where very large electric pumps 
are required. In 1903 Mr. Quimby was 
elected president of the Sundh Electric Co., 
a New York corporation organized to build 
pressure regulators, protective switches, and 
automatic motor controllers. He is a mem- 
ber of the American Society of Mechanical 
Engineers; the Engineers' Club of New 
York; the Essex County Country Club of 
Orange; and of the Sigma Chi fraternity. 

Mr. Quimby is the son of Edward E. and 
Cynthia E. Quimby. He married Grace 
Tingue, September i, 1900, and they have 
one child, William Tingue Quimby. 



Rainsford, William Brent (M.E., '99), was 
born in Belpre, O., January 18, 1871 ; son of 
George E. and Miriam J. Rainsford, both 
born in England. He was a railroad and 
telegraph messenger, 1885-87; was in the 
employ of the Cumberland & Pennsylvania 
Railroad at Mount Savage, Md., as store- 
room-keeper, 1887-89; as machinist appren- 
tice, 1889-93; and as machinist during vaca- 
tion periods; was Instructor during the 
Supplementary Term at the Stevens Insti- 
tute, 1899; was employed in the shops of the 
Baltimore & Ohio Railroad, Newark, O., 
1899-1900; was draughtsman with the Lack- 
awanna Co., first at Scranton and then at 
Buffalo, working on the designs for the new 
Buffalo plant, 1900-03 ; and has been engaged 
as draughtsman at the United States naval 




W. B. Rainsford 

proving grounds at Indian Head, Md., since 
October, 1903. 

Ramirez, Juan B. (M.E., '79), was engaged 
in introducing and shipping labor-saving 
machinery and American manufactures and 
promoting railroad-building and industrial 
improvements (waterworks, sugar-, paper-, 
brick-, and gas-making, distilleries, mining 
plants, sawmills, bridges, electric lighting, 
etc.) in Spanish countries, 1880-86; in the 
practical application in the United States of 
petroleum fuel and making researches in the 
production of fuel and illuminating gas from 



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petroleum by its own combustion ; also in 
boring- for oil in Venezuela, 1887-90; build- 
ing roadways, dams, and drains, devising 
rolling sheds for cacao and coffee terraces, 
and conducting agricultural and other special 
engineering investigations in Venezuela, 
1891-94; and from 1895 to date has been in 
the employ of the United States government 
as well as being engaged in private special 
investigations including the promotion of 
a new brewing system, the cultivation of 
single-cell microbes and their application to 
special fermentation; wine-making without 
fortification ; bottling without admixture of 
air; sterilization of bottles, barrels, etc., with 
a gas; the preservation of grape juice and 
other fruit juices without heating, sweeten- 
ing, or preservatives ; and the burning of coal 
in ordinary practice by distilling it into gases. 

Ramirez, Nestor (M.E., '95), was with 
the Westing-house Electric & Manufacturing 
Co., 1895-96; and since then has been lo- 
cated at Caracas, Venezuela. 

Randolph, Lingan Strother (M.E., "83), 
was born in Martinsljurg, W. \"a.. May 13, 




L. S. Randolph 

1859. He served an apprenticeship of three 
years to the machinist trade in the shops of 
the Baltimore & Ohio Railroad before enter- 
ing Stevens Institute ; was engineer of tests 
in the motive-power department of the New 



York, Lake Erie, & Western Railroad, where 
he organized a laboratory and put in force a 
system of inspection and tests of oils and 
lubricants, besides doing much experimental 
work in other lines, 1883-85; was superin- 
tendent of motive power with the Florida 
Railway & Navigation Co., now the Florida 
Central & Peninsular Railroad, with head- 
quarters at Fernandina, Fla., where he re- 
organized his department and changed the 
gauge of the engines and cars of the road 
from five feet to four feet nine inches (then 
adopted as the standard gauge of all south- 
ern railroads), 1885-87. He also designed 
a system of waterworks for the city of Fer- 
nandina. 

He next entered the employ of the Cum- 
berland & Pennsylvania Railroad, where he 
remained from 1887 to 1890, being engaged 
in designing a new type of heavy freight 
locomotive, ten of which were built from 
his plans, and three constructed under his 
supervision. He also designed a baggage 
car and a crane car, put in an electric-light 
plant, and devised a new time system for 
these shops, for a description of which see 
the Ti-ansactioiis of the American Society of 
Mcclianical Engineers, Vol. IX. 

Next becoming- engineer of tests with the 
Baltimore & Ohio Railroad, he reorganized 
the department of tests and largely extended 
its scope of usefulness, 1890-92; and as elec- 
trical engineer with the Baltimore Electrical 
Refinery, Baltimore, Md., 1892-93, he in- 
vented a new form of tank for the electro- 
lytic separation of metals. 

He has been Professor of Mechanical En- 
gineering at the Virginia Polytechnic Insti- 
tute from 1893 to date, and has designed and 
erected for this institution a system of 
waterworks with a 4,000-foot compressed-air 
transmission of power, as well as designing 
and erecting a central heating and lighting 
plant at a cost of $25,000, and buildings to 
the value of $70,000. 

He was consulting engineer for the Hol- 
lins Institute, Hollins, Va., in the erection of 
a central heating and lighting plant and 
waterworks; the Sweet Briar Institute, Am- 
herst County, Va. ; the Southwestern Vir- 
ginia State Hospital, Marion, Va., in the 
reconstruction of its heating plant; the West- 
ern State Hospital ; and for the Virginia 
School for Deaf and Dumb, at Staunton, Va. 



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533 



He is president of the Brush Mountain Coal 
Co., Christiansburg, Va. ; the Virginia An- 
thracite Coal & Railway Co., and vice-pres- 
ident of the Virginia Anthracite Coal Co. 
He is a member of the following technical 
societies : The American Society of Civil 
Engineers ; the American Society of Mechan- 
ical Engineers ; the American Railway Mas- 
ter Mechanics' Association ; the American 
Association for the Advancement of Science ; 
the International Association for Testing 
Materials; the Society for the Promotion of 
Engineering; the Society of Arts (Eng- 
land) ; and an associate member of the In- 
stitute of Electrical Engineers. He was 
formerly a member of the Baltimore and 
University clubs, Baltimore. 

He has written various papers on technical 
subjects, particularly on technical education, 
and in addition the following papers and ar- 
ticles : 

"Failure of Staybolts," paper read before the 
American Association for the Advancement of 
Science. 

"Cost of Lubricating Car Journals." Trans- 
actions of the Ainerican Society of Mechanical 
Engineers. 

"Strength of Staybolts." Ibid. 

"Strains in Locomotive Boilers." Ibid. 

"Strength of Freight Car Axles." Ibid. 

"Economic Element in Technical Educa- 
tion." Cassier's Magazine. 

"Engineering Education and Specialization." 
Ibid. 

"Systematic Testing of Materials." Digest of 
Physical Tests. 

Mr. Randolph is the son of James L. (chief 
engineer of the Baltimore & Ohio Railroad) 
and Emily Strother Randolph. He is de- 
scended from William Randolph who settled 
at Jamestown, Va., coming from Northum- 
berland, England, and also from Powhatan 
and Pocahontas. On his mother's side he is 
descended from the Strothers who were of 
Scotch-Irish descent. He married Fannie 
Robbins, October 15, 1890, and they have 
four children, James Robbins, Orlando Rob- 
bins, Emily, and Strother Robbins Randolph. 

Randolph, William W. (M.E., '86), was lo- 
cated at Englewood, Cooke County, 111., 
1886-90; with the Chicago, Rock Island, & 
Pacific Railroad, Chicago, 1890-91 ; in the 
engineer's department of the Kansas City 



Gas Light & Coke Co., Kansas City, Mo., 
1891-92; with the City Gas Company of Des 
Moines, Iowa, 1892-94; the United Gas Im- 
provement Co., Philadelphia, 1894-95 ; and 
has been with Humphreys & Glasgow, con- 
sulting gas engineers. New York, from 1895 
to date. 

Rapelje, John (M.E., '77), was born in 
East Fishkill, N. Y., September 18, 1856. 




John Rapelje 

He was engaged as assistant engineer on the 
construction of branch lines of the New 
York, Lake Erie, & Western Railroad Co., 
Pennsylvania, 1877-83 ; held a similar posi- 
tion with the Erie & Wyoming Valley Rail- 
road Co., 1883-85 ; was g-eneral roadmaster 
on the Colorado Division of the Union Pa- 
cific Railway, 1885-86, and assistant superin- 
tendent of this road, 1886-88; superintendent 
of the Idaho Division of the same company's 
lines, 1888-89; division engineer on the 
Norfolk & Western Railway in West Vir- 
ginia, 1889-92; and has been superintendent 
and chief engineer of the Gauley Coal Land 
Association, Alderson, W. Va., since 1892. 
This company owns about 200,000 acres of 
coal and timber land in West Virginia, and 
has its general office in Boston, Mass. 

Mr. Rapelje is the son of Lawrence C. 
and Hannah M. Rapelje. He is descended 
from Joris Jansen de Rapelje, who came to 
this country from Holland in 1623. He mar- 



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ried Bessie J. Allen (deceased 1896), June 
25, 1885, by whom he had one child, John 
Allen Rapelje. He married Emily Frances 
Baber, December 3, 1900. 

Raphel, Henry Joseph (M.E., '00), was 
born in Havana, Cuba (of American birth), 




H. J. Raphel 

November 21, 1877; son of Joseph A. and 
Emma C. Raphel. 

While of the Sophomore class he volun- 
teered for service at the outbreak of the war 
with Spain, and was detailed to duty on 
the U. S. S. " Badger " as engineer's mes- 
senger. On account of his ability to con- 
verse fluently in Spanish he was placed as 
interpreter on board the captured Spanish 
ocean tug " Humberto Rodriguez." When 
the war ended he returned to the Institute 
to complete his technical education. Upon 
graduation he secured a position with the 
Oxnard Construction Co., but after three 
months entered the civil engineer's depart- 
ment of the New York Central & Hudson 
River Railroad, New York. In the follow- 
ing year he was transferred to the mechan- 
ical engineer's office, where he remained 
until October, 1903, when he resigned to take 
his present position with the New York Glu- 
cose Co. at their plant at Edgewater, N. J. 
He was a member of the New Jersey Naval 
Reserves and now belongs to the Badger 
Naval Veterans' Association. 



Raque, Philip E. (M.E., '76), was born in 
Brooklyn, N. Y., July 11, 1855. He has made 
a specialty of engineering as applied to ar- 
chitecture, and has s'ecured ^nd executed 
work involving the expenditure of many 
hundred thousands of dollars, requiring orig- 
inal designing and the solution of intricate 
and interesting engineering problems. He 
has had charge of the designing and build- 
ing of the constructive work of some of the 
largest and tallest buildings in the country, 
and has worked under and in connection 
with some of the most prominent architects. 
He had personal charge of designing the de- 
tails of the steel and iron construction of the 
Columbia, Morris, and Salvation Army 
buildings. Proctor's Twenty-third Street 
Theatre, the Academy of Medicine, Apprais- 
er's Warehouse, Ninth Regiment Armory, 
and the House of Relief, New York, and 
the Kings County Hall of Records. He was 
consulting engineer for the Ansonia apart- 
ment hotel ; also consulting engineer and 
contractor for the steel work of the Hotel 
Mount Washington, New Hampshire. He 
has filled the position of chief engineer for 
several construction companies, and as such 
has planned and equipped several manufac- 
turing plants, including the installation of 
machinery. He is now engaged as a con- 
sulting and contracting engineer in New 
York, making a specialty of steel construc- 
tion, architectural ironwork, etc. He is a 
member of the American Society of Me- 
chanical Engineers; was corresponding 
secretary of the Stevens Institute Alumni 
Association for several years previous to 
1896, and was a director of the Association 
for the two years following that date; also 
vice-president of the Association for one 
year. 

Mr. Raque is the son of Charles G. and 
Anna Raque. He married Lizzie Eerrett, 
June 21, 1887, and they have three children, 
Arthur Edmund, Marjorie, and Carl Philip 
Raque. 

Rasmus, William T. (M.E., '96), was with 
the Elmira Municipal Improvement Co., El- 
mira, N. Y., 1896-1902; and has been a stock 
broker in New York from 1902 to date. 

Rea, Henry R. (M.E., '84), was born in 
Pittsburg, Pa., May 29, 1863. He spent the 



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535 



two years immediately following his gradu- 
ation at Stevens at the University of Gottin- 
gen, Germany. In 1886 he liecame connected 




with the Robinson-Rea Manufacturing Co., 
Pittsburg, Pa., being elected vice-president 
in 1891. In December, 1898, this firm united 
with one of its competitors to form the 
Mesta Machine Co., which then erected one 
of the largest machine plants in the country. 
Mr. Rea retained an interest in the new 
company, and remained a member of the 
board of directors after the consolidation, 
but transferred his active interest to the 
Steel, Car Forge Co., Pittsburg, of which 
he was elected president and treasurer. This 
company was sold in 1902 to the Standard 
Steel Car Co., in which Mr. Rea is a member 
of the board of directors. He is also a direc- 
tor in the Safe Deposit & Trust Co. of Pitts- 
burg, the Oliver Iron & Steel Co., the Oliver 
& Snyder Steel Co., the Union Bridge Co., 
the Shenango Furnace Co., the Blain Coal 
Co., and the People's Savings Bank of Pitts- 
burg. He is a member of the Pittsburg and 
Duquesne clubs, of Pittsburg ; the University, 
Racquet, and Tennis clubs, of New York, 
and of the Theta Xi fraternity. 

Mr. Rea is the son of William and Matilda 
A. (Robinson) Rea. He married Edith 
Oliver, April 23, 1889, and they have two 
children, Edith Anne and Henry Oliver 
Rea. 



Reed, Harry Douglas (M.E., '92), was 
born in Poughkeepsie, N. Y., February u, 
1869; son of Henry A. and Alice A. (Board- 
man) Reed. He is descended from John 
Reed, who distinguished himself in Crom- 
well's army in England, and at the restora- 
tion of the Stuarts came to America and 
settled at Providence, R. I. Another ances- 
tor was John Crane, who settled in Massa- 
chusetts in 1635 and whose descendants were 
distinguished in the Revolution. 

While in the Newark high school, Harry 
Douglas Reed won the Hammer prize for 
making the best set of apparatus for demon- 
strating the elementary principles of elec- 
tricity and physics. He has won several 
prizes for bicycle-riding and tennis-playing. 

Immediately after graduating he secured 
a position with the Bishop Gutta Percha Co., 
New York, manufacturers of submarine tel- 
egraph and telephone cables insulated with 
gutta percha or india-rubber, underground 
electric light and power cables, and special 
power-station cables. His first work was in 
estimating the cost of labor and material on 
cables. Then he was made assistant elec- 
trician, and in January, 1895, was promoted 




to the position of electrician and engineer, 
his work having included the designing of 
new machinery and electrical test work em- 
bracing tests for insulation, capacity, and 
conductivity of cables before shipment, and 



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often after laying. In July, 1893, he had 
charge of the laying of two cables for the 
United States Life Saving Service in Lake 
Huron, — one from Middle Island, and the 
other from Thunder Island, to the mainland. 
In 1894 he laid a cable from Fort Wads- 
worth to Fort Hamilton, across the New 
York Narrows, for the United States Army 
Engineers. In December, 1899, the com- 
pany's factory was badly damaged by fire, 
and he was given charge of rebuilding the 
factory, repairing the old machinery, and 
making new. On ■ the completion of this 
work he was appointed superintendent of the 
factory, the position he now holds. 

He is a member of the American Institute 
of Electrical Engineers ; the New York Elec- 
trical Society; the Engineers' Club of New 
York ; and of the Roseville Athletic Associa- 
tion, Newark, N. J. 

Reese, Francis I. (M.E., '01), was with 
the McKiernan Drill Co., New York, 190 1 ; 
engaged on temporary work for Prof. D. S. 
Jacobus at Stevens Institute 1901 ; draughts- 
man with the New York Central & Hudson 
River Railroad Co., New York, 1902-03 ; and 
has been in the engineering department of 
the Geo. A. Fuller Co., New York, from 1503 
to date. 

Reeve, H. E. (M.E., '88), has, with the 
exception of a few months draughting for 
E. D. Leavitt, Jr., E.D., been engaged in 
the manufacture of small articles (principal- 
ly in the electrical line) which, necessitating 
manufacture at small cost and in large quan- 
tities, require the use of special tools, which 
are also designed by Mr. Reeve and built in 
his shop at Brooklyn, N. Y. 

Raid, Thorburn (M.E., '88), was born in 
London, England, May i, 1864. He re- 
ceived the degree of Bachelor of Arts from 
the Hampden-Sidney College, Virginia, in 
1882, and that of Bachelor of Science from 
the University of Virginia in 1885. 

He was Professor of Mechanical Engi- 
neering in the South Carolina State Uni- 
versity, during the session of 1888-89; was 
in the employ of the United States Electrical 
Manufacturing Co., Newark, N. J., in charge 
of the testing department, and afterward 
assistant to Mr. William Stanley, Jr., in in- 



venting work, until 1890. He then practised 
as a consulting engineer in New York until 




Thorburn Reu) 

he undertook the designing of an alternating- 
current system for the Edison General Elec- 
tric Co., in 1891. When this company 
entered the General Electric Co., he became 
engineer in the calculating" department of 
the latter at Lynn, Mass., devoting his 
time at first very largely to designing alter- 
nating-current apparatus, and later superin- 
tending the work of the draughtsmen and 
engineers in that department. In 1893 he 
went to Schenectady, and took charge of the 
reports and technical data of all the dyna- 
mos, motors, and transformers manufactured 
by that company. 

He next went to London, England, in 
1896, in the employment of the British 
Thompson-Houston Co., as assistant to Mr. 
H. F. Parshall. After returning to the 
United States he opened an office in New 
York as consulting engineer, in which busi- 
ness he is at present engaged. For three 
years he was consulting engineer to the 
American Impulse Wheel Co., New York, 
designing their water-wheel and starting 
them in commercial operation. He had full 
charge of the company's engineering depart- 
ment for a time. 

He has read papers before the American 
Institute of Electrical Engineers, on " Ar- 
mature Re-actions of Alternators" (1896), 



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and on " Sparking — Its Causes and Effects " 
(1897), and among the articles he has con- 
tributed to technical journals are: "Magneto- 
Motive Force," published in the Stevens Indi- 
cator, VII, ■' Some Recent Developments in 
the Theory of Magnetism," Ibid., VIII, and 
" Some Early Traction History," Cassicr's 
Magasinc, August, 1899. 

He is a member of the American Institute 
of Electrical Engineers; the Engineers' Club 
and Southern Society of New York; the 
New York Electrical Society; and the Phi 
Gamma Delta fraternity. 

Mr. Reid is the son of Charles Henry and 
Mary Helen (Cochran) Reid. He married 
Bertha Van Kleeck, January 9, 1900, and 
they have one child, Thorburn Reid, Jr. 

Reitze, George, Jr. (M.E., '01), was born 
in Hoboken, N. J., February 28, 1878. He 
was Instructor during the Supplementary 
Term at Stevens Institute, 1901 ; and has 
been with the De La Vergne Refrigerat- 
ing Machine Co., New York, from 1901 to 
date. 

Mr. Reitze is the son of George and Jose- 
phine (Gerstner) Reitze, both of German 
Ijirth. He married Mae L. Schutt, June 18, 
1902, and they have one child, Dorothea L. 
Reitze. 



Rendon, Jose C. (M.E., '8 = 
and location are unknown. 



His record 



Renwick, Edward Brevoort (M.E., '84), 
was born in New York city April 21, 1863. 
He was with the Brooks Locomotive Works, 
Dunkirk, N. Y., and the Worthington Pump 
Works, Brooklyn, N. Y., 1884-85; instructor 
in mechanics and drawing at the Working- 
men's School, New York, 1885-86; with the 
Passaic Quarry Co., New York, 1887; and 
has been a member of the firm of Pirsson & 
Renwick, dealers in real estate and build- 
ing-stone (principally granite), from 1888 
to date. Since the death of Mr. Pirsson in 
1895, Mr. Renwick has conducted the busi- 
ness alone under the firm name. He is a 
member of the Engineers' and Union clubs 
and of the Architectural League and St. 
Nicholas Society, of New York. He was a 
member of the First Naval Battahon of New 
York from 1891 to 1897. 

Mr. Renwick is the son of Edward Sabin 



and Alice Renwick. He married Emily Dil- 
worth Hicks, August 2, 1900. 

Renwick, William W. (M.E., '85), was a 
member of the firm of Renwick, Aspinwall, 
& Russell, architects, New York city, 1885- 
90; and has practised as architect in New 
York down to date. He is a member of the 
Engineers' Club of New York. 

Rice, Richard Henry (M.E., '85), was 
born in Rockland, Me., January 9, 1863. He 
was a special apprentice in the shops of the 
Pittsburg, Cincinnati, & St. Louis Railroad, 
Dennison, O., 1885-86; draughtsman with 
the New England Shipbuilding Co., Bath, 
Me., 1886-87 ; chief draughtsman with E. D. 
Leavitt, Jr., Cambridgeport, Mass., 1887-90; 
engineer and superintendent of the William 
A. Plarris Engine Co., Providence, R. I., 
1891-94; and in the latter year organized 
the Rice & Sargent Engine Co., Providence, 
which he conducted until its merger in 1898 
into the Providence Engineering Works, of 
which he is treasurer. He presented before 




R. H. Rice 

the American Institute of Electrical Engi- 
neers, New York, October 25, 1901, a paper 
on " The Design of Engines for Operating 
Alternators in Parallel," which was pub- 
lished in the Street Railzvay Journal, No- 
vember 2, 1901. He is a member of the 
American Society of Mechanical Engineers ; 



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THE STEVENS INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY 



of the Association of Mechanical Engineers, 
and the Art and University clubs of Provi- 
dence, and of the Delta Tau Delta fraternity. 
Mr. Rice is the son of Albert Smith and 
Frances W. (Baker) Rice. His father v\^as 
a representative in the Maine legislature, 
and his grandfather was president of the 
Portland & Kennebec (now the Maine Cen- 
tral) Railroad, and vice-president of the 
Northern Pacific Railroad. Henry K. Baker, 
his maternal grandfather, was a prominent 
author. The subject of this sketch married 
Mary Sue Durgin in 1887 (deceased 1895), 
and Alice Woodman Kimball in 1898. There 
are three children, Phyllis, Richard Drury, 
and Sue Durgin Rice. 



from 1897 to date, and now holds the posi- 
tion of engineer of construction, being chiefly 
occupied in superintending erection work, 
estimating, designing, etc. The company, 
although engaged in general engineering and 
foundry work, makes a specialty of ice 
and refrigerating plants and gas-works ap- 
paratus, and the alteration of refrigerating 
and gas plants. He is a junior member of 
the American Society of Mechanical Engi- 
neers, and a member of the Chi Psi fra- 
ternity. 

Mr. G. P. Richardson is the son of Par- 
ker C. and Harriette M. Richardson. He 
married Kathleen Gill Atkinson, January 19, 
1903. 



Richardson, C. G. (M.E., '89), was assist- 
ant manager with the Jones & Lamson 
Machine Co., Springfield, Vt., 1889-92; 
salesman with the George F. Blake Manu- 
facturing Co., at Boston and Chicago, 1892- 
94; assistant treasurer of the Parks & Wool- 
son Machine Co., Springfield, Vt., 1894-98, 
and has been treasurer of the company from 
1898 to date. He has been granted a patent 
on a turret lathe. 

Richardson, George Partridge (M.E., '97), 
was born in Duxbury, Mass., September 5, 



Richtberg, Hermann Andreas (M.E., '00), 
was born in New York, December 19, 1874. 




G. P. Richardson 




1874. He has been with the Isbell-Porter 
Co., engineers and founders, Newark, N. J., 



H. A. Richtberg 

He was Instructor during the Supplementary 
Term at Stevens Institute, 1900 ; in the test- 
ing department of the Westinghouse Electric 
& Manufacturing Co., Newark, N. J., 1900- 
02; and has been senior assistant in the 
electrical department and foreman of the 
watt-meter test department at the same 
works from 1902 to date. He is an associate 
member of the American Institute of Electri- 
cal Engineers. 

Mr. Richtberg is the son of Hermann and 
Christine Richtberg, both of German birth. 
He married Lillian A. Thum. 



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Riddle, Robert Moore (M.E., '8i), was 
born in Pittsburg, Pa., November lo, 1856; 
son of Robert Moore and Mary Dickerson 
Riddle. He was an apprentice in the Penn- 
sylvania Railroad shops, Altoona, Pa., 1881- 
86 ; and draughtsman with Cofrode & Saylor, 
bridge-builders, Philadelphia, 1886-87. Since 
1887 he has not been actively engaged in 
engineering work, although during this time 
he designed and built a set of triple-expan- 
sion engines for a 62-foot launch, which 
stood the test of a voyage from Maine to 
Cuba and in the Bahamas and Florida 
waters. He is a member of the New York 
Yacht and Reform clubs, of New York, and 
of the Corinthian Yacht and Rittenhouse 
clubs of Philadelphia. 

Riege, Rudolph (M.E., '93), was born in 
Penn Yan, N. Y., March 23, 1873; son of 
Emil August and Alice E. Riege. He was 
draughtsman with the Jackson & Woodin 
Manufacturing Co., Berwick, Pa. 1893-95 ! 
engaged in the construction and operation of 
gas works at the London Branch of Messrs. 
Humphreys & Glasgow, 1895-98; superin- 
tendent of the Front Street works of the 
Newark Consolidated Gas Co., Newark, 
N. J., 1898-1901 ; and superintendent of the 
Westchester Lighting Co., Yonkers, N. Y., 
in the latter year, but was shortly after com- 
pelled to resign his position on account of 
ill health. After a year's rest he took up 
patent law, and in January, 1903, joined the 
patent department force of the Electric Ve- 
hicle Co., Hartford, Conn., and is now en- 
gaged in the commercial handling of the 
patent interests of that company. His 
graduation thesis, on " Comparison of Insu- 
lating Materials for Cold Storage," prepared 
jointly with Mr. Franke L. Parker, was pub- 
lished in the Stevens Indicator. He is a 
member of the American Gas Light Associa- 
tion and of the Theta Xi fraternity. 

Riesenberger, Adam (M.E., '76), Profes- 
sor of Mechanical Drawing, and Registrar 
and Assistant Treasurer, at Stevens Institute 
of Technology. For biography, see page 262. 

Righter, Addison Alexander (M.E., '82), 
was born in Newark, N. J., January 10, i860; 
son of William A. and Emma L. (Shugard) 
Righter. He was educated at Willison Sem- 



inary, Easthampton, Mass., and graduated 

from the Sheffield Scientific School in 1881. 

He was with the Rondout Iron Works, 

Rondout, N. Y., 1882-84, first as draughts- 




A. A. Righter 

man and then as constructing engineer. 
These works built principally marine engines 
and boilers, dredges, river steamers, tug- 
boats, stern-wheel vessels for shallow rivers 
in South America, and cement machinery. 
He was next mechanical engineer at the 
Yantic Woolen Co.'s works, Yantic, Conn., 
1884-90, designing machinery and acting as 
mill architect in putting up new buildings 
and reorganizing the plant. 

Early in 1890 he went to England to de- 
velop l30x-making machinery for the Corru- 
ganza Manufacturing Co., since which time 
he has been interested in this business. The 
Corruganza company was amalgamated with 
Hugh Stevenson & Sons, Ltd., Manchester, 
in 1900. He is now one of the directors of 
the latter firm, manager of the London 
works, and consulting engineer for the Con- 
duit & Insulation Co., London, an electrical 
concern manufacturing steel conduits lined 
with paper, and general electric fittings. 

Mr. Righter also conducts a general busi- 
ness as consulting engineer in London. 
He has taken out numerous patents which 
are registered under the names of the vari- 
ous companies with which he has been asso- 
ciated. He is a member of the University 



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THE STEVENS INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY 



Club, New York ; the National Liberal Club, 
London ; and of the Theta Xi fraternity. 

Rittenhouse, Charles Tomlinson(M.E., '93), 
was born in New York city August 4, 




C. T. Rittenhouse 

1871 ; son of Moses and Rebecca L. Ritten- 
house. After graduation from the Institute 
he entered the School of Mines at Columbia 
University, and at the end of a year gradu- 
ated therefrom as an electrical engineer. In 
the spring of 1894 he was appointed Univer- 
sity Fellow in Electricity in the Department 
of Pure Science, the highest honor conferred 
by this University. His post-graduate course 
comprised the study of the more advanced 
theories of electricity, electro-chemistry, and 
thermodynamics, and for minor subjects, 
mathematics, astronomy, political economy, 
etc. In the spring of 1895 he received the 
degree of Master of Arts, and was also re- 
appointed University Fellow in Electricity 
for the succeeding year. The illness of the 
professor in charge of his major subject 
prevented Mr. Rittenhouse from presenting 
himself for the degree of Doctor of Philoso- 
phy. 

During the period that he was at Co- 
lumbia, the Roentgen or X-rays were being 
widely discussed and experimented with 
throughout the world. One of the first and 
foremost in this country to investigate this 
subject was Dr. Pupin, of Columbia, with 



whom Mr. Rittenhouse was associated. He 
conducted many experiments for Dr. Pupin, 
and succeeded in taking some of the first 
X-ray pictures on this side of the Atlantic. 
Mr. Rittenhouse wrote much on the subject, 
and also gave a number of lectures. In 1896 
he was offered the position of editor-in-chief 
of the Electrical World, which duties he im- 
mediately assumed and continued to pursue 
until the latter part of 1897, when ill health, 
due to overwork, forced his resignation. He 
went west with the hope of recovery, but 
finally succumbed to an attack of pneumonia, 
at Denver, Colo., February 26, 1900. 

He was the author of two articles which 
were published in Electric Power: one on 
" The Constancy of the Magnetic Field," 
March, 1895, and the other on " Progress 
in Electrical Development in Europe." He 
also wrote the article on " Wireless Telegra- 
phy " in the " Century Dictionary," and that 
on the X-rays for the " Standard Diction- 
ary." 

He was a member of the American Insti- 
tute of Electrical Engineers ; the American 
Association for the Advancement of Science, 
and the British Association for the Advance- 
ment of Science. 




L. H. Rittenhouse 



Rittenhouse, Leon Hawley (M.E., 'oi), 
was born in Annapolis, Md., September 29, 
1879. He was in the operating department 
of the Brooklyn Rapid Transit Co., Brook- 



THE ALUMNI 



541 



lyn, N. Y., 1901-02; sales engineer with the 
Goudey-McLean Co., 1902-03; and since the 
latter date has been in the mechanical en- 
gineering department of the American School 
of Correspondence, Chicago, 111. He is a 
member of the Theta Nu Epsilon fraternity. 
Mr. Rittenhouse is the son of Hawley O. 
and Leonora A. Rittenhouse. He married 
Eva Leah Ford, September 4, 1902. 

Rittenhouse, Walter B. (M.E., '98), was 
assistant engineer with the International 



Ohio, 1880-84. Since 1884 no record of Mr. 
Robbins has been obtainable. 

Roberts, Edward Parkinson (M.E., '7/). 
was born in New York city in 1857. He 
was successively (between 1877 and 1883) 
lathe-hand in the tool-room of the Singer 
sewing-machine factory; draughtsman with 
Thomas Crane, patent attorney, Newark 
N. J. ; draughtsman, and finally superintend- 
ent of George Yule's machine-shop, Newark ; 
draughtsman, with Hewes & Philips, New- 




PowER Plant of Lorain it Cleveland (O.) Railway Co. (1890J 
E. P. Roberts 



Paper Co., New York, 1899-1900 ; chief en- 
gineer with the Piercefield Paper Co., Pierce- 
field, N. Y., 1900-01 ; and has been electrical 
engineer with the Highland Canal & Power 
Co., Duluth, Minn., from 1901 to date. 

Robbins, Edward P. (M.E. '79), was with 
the Brown & Sharpe Manufacturing Co., 
Providence, R. I., 1879-80; and mechanical 
engineer and patent solicitor, Cincinnati, 



ark; assistant to Hiram S. Maxim, electri- 
cal engineer to the United States Electric 
Co., New York; assistant to Edward Weston, 
electrical engineer for the above company ; 
electrician and shop superintendent of the 
American Electric Co., New York; engi- 
neer in the West for a Boston electric light 
syndicate; electrician with the Swan Lamp 
Co., Boston ; erecting engineer for the Brush- 
Swan Rocky Mountain Co. ; then super- 



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THE STEVENS INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY 



intendent, and later general manager, of 
the Cheyenne (Wyo.) Electric Light Co., 
1883-88; superintendent of the Cheyenne 
Gas Co., 1885-88; Associate Professor of 
Electrical Engineering at Cornell Univer- 
sity, 1888-89; assistant engineer with the 
Brush Electric Co., and superintendent of 
the Swan Lamp Manufacturing Co., Cleve- 
land, O. (at that time an allied interest), and 
later general manager of the latter company, 
1889-93; and has been established at Cleve- 
land as a consulting engineer under the firm 




E. P. Roberts 

names of E. P. Roberts & Co., and later the 
Roberts-Abbott Co., mechanical, electrical, 
and civil engineers, from 1893 to date. 
The recent work of the firm has been in 
nearly every State east of the Rocky Moun- 
tains (except those in the Southeast), and 
in Canada. It has been principally in con- 
nection with electrical railroads ; but has 
also to a considerable degree included elec- 
tric light and power plants, hot water and 
steam heating plants, waterworks, water- 
power development, gasworks, and manu- 
facturing plants. 

The illustration on page 541 is typical of 
the direct-current power-houses designed by 
the firm. The plant was fully described in 
the Street Raihuay Journal of April, 1897. 

Among the articles written by Mr. Roberts 
are " A Storage Battery Station," Transac- 
tions of the American Institute of Electrical 



Engineers, 1882 ; " Considerations Governing 
the Choice of a Dynamo," read before the 
Civil Engineers' Club of Cleveland, and pub- 
lished in the Journal of the Association of 
Engineering Societies, 1891 ; a series on 
" The Most Economical Loss in Conduc- 
tors," Electrical World, 1891 ; " The Power 
House in an Electric Railroad System," 
Ibid., 1892; and "The Use of the Des- 
patcher's Diagram in the Design of Inter- 
urban Railways," Stevens Indicator, 1901. 
Besides the above-mentioned technical jour- 
nals the following have published papers by 
Mr. Roberts dealing with engineering prob- 
lems : the Street Raihvay Reviezv, the Engi- 
neer, and the Journal of the Association of 
Engineering Societies. He has also given 
several informal " talks " (mainly on elec- 
tric railway design) before technical schools 
and the Electric Club of Cleveland. 

He is a member of the American Society 
of Mechanical Engineers; the American In- 
stitute of Electrical Engineers; the Electric 
and Century clubs and the Chamber of Com- 
merce of Cleveland; and of the Theta Xi 
fraternity; as well as being an honorary 
member of the Bufi^alo Electric Club. He 
was elected secretary of the Section of Prac- 
tice at the International Congress of Elec- 
tricians, Chicago, 1893; and was president of 
the Alumni Association for the year 1896-97. 

Mr. Roberts is the son of John Parkinson 
and Anne Eliza Roberts. He married Jessie 
Boardman in -1883, and they have two chil- 
dren, Arthur Boardman and Eleanor Ruth 
Roberts. 

Roberts, George J. (M.E., '84), was born 
in Charlotte County, Va., September 10, 
1863. He was a special apprentice in the 
Topeka shops of the Atchison, Topeka, & 
Santa Fe Railroad, 1884-86; in the draught- 
ing-room of the Chicago, Burlington, & 
Quincy Railroad, Aurora, 111., 1886-87; in 
the motive-power department of the Rich- 
mond & Danville Railway, Washington, 
D. C, 1887-89; and has been with the United 
Gas Improvement Co., from 1889 to date, 
in the following capacities : in charge of field 
work, 1889-91 ; in charge of draughting-room 
and assistant to inspector of construction, 
1891-92; acting inspector of construction, 
1892-93; inspector of construction, 1893-98; 
engineer of construction, 1898-1900; engi- 



THE ALUMNI 



543 



neer, 1900-04; and engineer in chief from 
March i, 1904, to date. He has taken out 
a patent which permits of gas being made 
either up through the generator or down 
through the generator, a model of which was 
exhibited at the Stevens Institute at the time 
of its Twenty-fifth Anniversary exhibition. 



Regulator Co., New York, from 1901 to date. 
He is a Free Mason and a member of the 
Royal Arcanum. 




G. J, Roberts 

He contributed a paper on " The Pumping 
of Gas " to the American Gas Light Asso- 
ciation in October, 1899. He is a member 
of the American Gas Light Association; the 
American Society of Mechanical Engineers ; 
the Westmoreland Club, Richmond, Va. ; the 
Philadelphia Country Club; the University 
Club; and the Merion Cricket Club. 

Mr. G. J. Roberts was an Alumni Trustee 
of Stevens Institute of Technology for the 
term 1899-1902. 

Roberts, William Henry Harrison, Jr. 

(M.E., '93), was born in Philadelphia, Pa., 
May 28, 1869 ; son of W. H. H. and Martha 
(Fife) Roberts. He is of the eighth gener- 
ation from John and Sarah Roberts, who 
sailed from England on the " Kent" in 1677, 
and settled in Burlington County, N. J. He 
was with the Columbia Typewriter Manu- 
facturing Co., New York, 1893-94; inspector 
with the Mergenthaler Linotype Co., Brook- 
lyn, N. Y., 1895-96; with the Johnson 
Temperature Regulating Co., New York, 
1896-1901 ; and has been with the Powers 




W. H. H. Roberts, Jr. 

Robinson, Edward William (M.E., '95), 
was born in Hamburg, Germany, May 13, 
1874. He was employed by Colgate & Co., 
Jersey City, N. J., 1895 ; was draughtsman 
for the Ehnira Bridge Co. on the North- 




E. W. Robinson 

western Elevated Railroad, Chicago, and 
inspector on the Park Avenue improvement, 



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New York, 1896; draughtsman with the 
C. W. Hunt Co., New York, engaged on 
coal-handling machinery, 1896-97; with 
R. P. and J. H. Staats, New York, engaged 
in designing- and building sheds and plants 
for the White Star, Cunard, and Wilson 
steamship lines. New York, and similar 
work, 1897-1900; member of the firm of Ray 
& Robinson, contractors and builders, New- 
York, 1900-03; and has been a member of 
the firm of Smith & Robinson, general con- 
tractors, from 1903 to date. He is a mem- 
ber of the Princess Anne Hunt Club, and of 
the Alandar Golf Club. 

Mr. Robinson is the son of Edward and 
Emma (Weismann) Robinson. His first 
ancestor in America was William Robinson, 
of Dorchester, Mass., who settled there in 
1635 in the company led by Richard Mather. 
The subject of this sketch married Georgiana 
B. Brock, October 26, 1896, and they have 
one child, Edward Herman Robinson. 



Robinson, Herman (M.E., 
far as known, been located 
city since graduation. 



'98), has, so 
in New York 



Rogers, Washington Hunt, Jr. (M.E., '02), 
was born in New York city July 23, 1881 ; 
son of Washington H. and Emma A. Rog- 
ers. He is descended from Lieut.-Col. 
Rogers who perished in the Black Hole of 
Calcutta. The direct line of the Rogers 
family have all engaged in active military 
service. The subject of this sketch was 
assistant in the testing department of the 
American Diamond Rock Drill Co. for one 
year, engaged in experimental work on 
steam turbines,, condensers, compressors, and 
centrifugal pumping-machinery. He was 
inspector of construction with the New York 
Mutual Gas Light Co. until the latter part 
of 1903, when he was advanced to the posi- 
tion of assistant superintendent. 

Rood, Vernon Harris (M.E., '82), was 
born in Elyria, O., November 10, 1856. He 
was assistant to the superintendent of the 
firm of J. C. Haydon & Co., builders of 
mining machinery, Jeanesville, Pa., 1882; 
draughtsman with Coxe Bros. & Co., Drif- 
ton, Pa., 1882-84; filled a like position with 
the Philadelphia & Reading Coal & Iron Co., 
Pottsville, Pa., 1884-87; was head draughts- 



man with the Barr Pumping-Engine Co., 
Philadelphia, Pa., 1887-90; and has been 
vice-president and manager of the Jeanes- 
ville Iron Works Co., Jeanesville, Pa., from 
1890 to date. The product of the company 
is mine and special pumping machinery. He 
has taken out two patents, one for a coal jig, 
and the other for a cut-off for duplex pumps. 
He is a member of the American Society of 
Mechanical Engineers. 

Mr. Rood is the son of Homer B. and 
Helen S. Rood. He married Alice A. Stone, 
December 21, 1882, and the)' have five chil- 




V. H. Rood 

dren, Vernon S., Margaret S., Esther A., 
Carlos H., and Francis A. Rood. 

Ropes, Albert Barrett (M.E., '83), was 
born in Orange, N. J., July 10, 1862 ; son 
of David Nichols and Lydia Laurelia Ropes. 
His father and his uncle, George Ropes, 
were the first manufacturers of table cut- 
lery in this country, beginning about the 
year 1840. At the age of fifteen he made a 
complete working model in wood of a loco- 
motive three feet long. He worked in the 
locomotive shops of the Northern Pacific 
Railroad at Brainerd, Minn.; then spent a 
short time in the service of the Philadelphia 
& Reading Railway at Reading, Pa., resign- 
ing to become engineer of tests for the 
Northern Pacific Railroad. At the time of 
his death, which occurred at Sacramento, 



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545 



Cal., in October, 1889, he was engineer of 
tests for the Southern Pacific Railroad. 




A. B. Ropes 

Rose, Rudolf Viedt (M.E., '97), was born 
at Niagara Falls, N. Y., April 27, 1876; son 
of Adolf E. and Helene V. Rose, and of 
German descent. He has been with the Ni- 
agara Falls Power Co. and the Canadian 
Niagara Power Co. from 1897 to date. His 
work has been principally in connection with 
the installation of the 5,000-horse-power tur- 
bines in Power House No. 2 of the Niagara 
Falls Power Co. and the 10,000-horse-power 
turbines of the Canadian Niagara Power Co. 
He is now chief engineer of the Niagara 
Falls Power Co. During the period since 
graduation Mr. Rose spent nearly a year in 
the electrical instrument department of Die 
Allgemeine Elektricitats-Gesellschaft of Ber- 
lin, Germany. He is a member of the Beta 
Theta Pi and Tau Beta Pi fraternities. 

Rosenberg, Ernest M. (M.E., '89), was 
born in New York city September 4, 1868; 
son of Emil Rosenberg, M.D., and S. (Blum- 
enthal) Rosenberg. He was electrician and 
superintendent of the Manhattan Electric 
Light Co., New York, 1889-91 ; draughtsman 
m the Crane department of the Yale & 
Towne Manufacturing Co., Stamford, Conn., 
1892 ; draughtsman on track and power-house 
work for the Metropolitan Street Railway 
Co., New York, 1892-94; associated with 



Mr. J. A. Barrett, investigating electrolytic 
destruction of water-pipes by trolley cur- 
rents, for the Brooklyn Subway Commission, 
Brooklyn, N. Y., 1894-95 ; draughtsman on 
structural ironwork with the Jackson Archi- 
tectural Ironworks, New York, 1895-96; en- 
gaged on electrolytic investigation, again, 
for the Brooklyn Subway Commission (the 
work begun in 1894), 1896-97; consulting 
engineer to Gen. Collis, commissioner of 
public works. New York, in matters relating 
to conduit electric railroads, regarding elec- 
trolytic destruction of water-pipes, etc., and 
electrical engineer to the Department of 
Public Works, New York, on all work then 
being constructed by the Metropolitan Street 
Railway Co., 1897-98; and has been 
draughtsman on machine design and power 
plants and consulting engineer for mill 
transmission plants from 1898 to date. He 
is an associate member of the American Li- 
stitute of Electrical Engineers. 

Rosenbusch, Gilbert (M.E., "94), was born 
in New York city July 26, 1874; son of 
Joseph and Caroline Rosenbusch. He was 
with the Sprague Electric Co., New York, 
1894-99, his work comprising draughting, 
designing, erecting, testing, and experiment- 
ing. As engineer in charge of the electric 




Gilbert Rosenbusch 

equipment of the forty-eight elevators in- 
stalled on the Central London Underground 



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Railway, he was resident engineer for the 
Sprague Co., in London, 1899-1901. During 
the latter year he was employed on special 
work for Sir Douglas Fox, designing un- 
dergrovuid stations ; and next became chief 
electrical engineer to the firm of Waygood 
& Otis, Ltd., London, consulting engineer 
for the Sprague Elevator Co., London, and 
patent expert for subsidiary companies. He 
is at present on the engineering staff of the 
Underground Electric Railways Co. of 
London. He has delivered several lectures 
before various societies on elevator practice. 
He is an honorary member of the Engi- 
neering Society of the State University of 
Minnesota ; a member of the Royal Societies 
Club, London; and an associate member of 
the American Institute of Electrical Engi- 
neers, and of the Listitution of Civil Engi- 
neers, London. 

Royle, Vernon Elmer (M.E., '02), was 
born in Paterson, N. J., July 10, 1877; son 
of Vernon and Jeannie (Malcolm) Royle. 
He worked in the machine-shop of John 
Royle & Sons, for two years, at vise work 
and all machines. At present he is in the 
draughting-room of tiiis company. He has 
applied for a patent on textile machinery. 



Ruprecht, Louis (M.E., '94), was born in 
Hoboken, N. J., November 22, 1873 ; son of 
Charles W. and Marianne Blume Ruprecht, 





V. E. Royle; 

He is a member of the New York Electrical 
Society, and the North Jersey Automobile 
Club. 



Louis Ruprecht 

and of German descent. He was with the 
Westinghouse Electric & Manufacturing Co., 
Pittsburg, Pa., 1894-96, as apprentice in the 
shops, engaged in experimental laboratory 
work, and assistant in the engineering de- 
partment on specification work and design ; 
was in the employ of the National Lead Co.. 
1 896-190 1, as chemist and metallurgist of the 
smelting and refining department, engaged 
in manufacturing lead, tin, antimony, etc.,* 
alloys, and the reduction of oxides and 
drosses, etc. He designed and erected a 
smelting and refining plant at the Chicago 
branch, and was superintendent and buyer 
in this department. He was with the Russell 
& Erwin Manufacturing Co., New Britain, 
Conn., 1901-03, as chief engineer in charge 
of power and plant and of changes and ad- 
ditions in boiler, engine, electrical installa- 
tions, etc. 

During 1904 he became manager of the 
Washington Electric Vehicle Transportation 
Co., of the Electric Vehicle Co., Hartford, 
Conn., manufacturers of commercial and 
pleasure electric and gasoline vehicles. He 
designed and applied for a patent on a rapid 
casting mold. He contributed an article to 
the Stevens Indicator on " Graphic Method 
for the Determination of the Sum Value of 



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547 



Two Components," designed for the National 
Lead Co. and used for determining conven- 
iently the fluctuating value of an alloy for 
varying cost of the component metals. Mr. 
Ruprecht is a charter member of the Uni- 
versity Club of Brooklyn. 

Rusby, John Morrell (M.E., '85), was born 
in Franklin, N. J., March 5, 1861 ; son of 
John and Abigail E. (Holmes) Rusby. He 
has been with the United Gas Improvement 
Co., from 1885 to date, having occupied the 
following positions : in the engineering office 
at Philadelphia, 1885-86; superintendent of 
gasworks at Allentown, Pa., 1886-87 ; super- 
intendent of the Jersey City gasworks, 1887- 
99; in charge of the Hudson County elec- 
tric plant of Jersey City, 1891-96; engi- 
neer of the Hudson County Gas Co., 1899- 
1902; and inspecting engineer from 1902 to 
date. He is a member of the American Soci- 
ety of Mechanical Engineers ; of the Amer- 
ican Gas Light Association; the Engineers' 
Club of New York; and the Merion Cricket 
Club. He presented a paper to the American 
Gas Light Association, in October, 1898, on 
" The Effect of the Depth of Fire upon the 
Practical Efficiency of a Water-Gas Genera- 
tor." An article by him on " An Outline 



Rusling, William James, Jr. (M.E., '96), 
was born in Brooklyn, N. Y., August 10, 
1874; son of Wilham James and Emma R. 
(Smith) Rusling. He was in the motive- 





Description of Carburetted Water-Gas Man- 
ufacture " appeared in the Stevens Indicator, 
October, 1899. 



W. J. Rusling, Jr. 

power department of the Pennsylvania Rail- 
road at Jersey City, N. J., 1896-99; at Al- 
toona. Pa., 1899-1901 ; at Philadelphia, Pa., 
1901-03; and at Pittsburg, from 1903 to 
date. 

Sague, James Edward (M.E., '83), was 
born in Poughkeepsie, N. Y., July 2, 1862. 
He was assistant engineer of tests with the 
Chicago, Burlington, & Quincy Railroad, 
Aurora, 111., 1883-85 ; engineer of tests, gen- 
eral foreman of machine-shops at Jersey 
City, and division master mechanic with the 
Erie Railroad, 1885-90; mechanical engi- 
neer with the West India Improvement Co., 
and superintendent of motive power for the 
Jamaica Railroad, Jamaica, W. I., 1890-92; 
mechanical engineer with the Schenectady 
Locomotive Works, Schenectady, N. Y., 
1892-1901. In this latter year, at the time 
of the consolidation of most of the large lo- 
comotive manufacturing concerns into the 
American Locomotive Co., he was called to 
the main office in New York to take charge of 
the engineering business of the consolidated 
company. In March, 1904, he was made 
assistant vice-president, and in June vice- 
president of the American Locomotive Co. 



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THE STEVENS INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY 



While engineer of tests with the Erie Rail- 
road, he designed and superintended the ap- 
plication of the system of steam car-heating 
in use on that road. He did considerable 
work in connection with the designing and 
fitting up of new shops of the Schenectady 
Locomotive Works, and later his work at 
Schenectady consisted principally of the 
designing and sale of locomotives. He 
contributed an article on the " Design of 
Locomotive and Car Springs " to the Ste- 
z'cns Indicator, VL He has also been an 
active member in presenting papers, reports, 
discussions, etc., to the various associations 
to which he belongs, among which are the 
following : the American Society of Me- 
chanical Engineers ; the American Railway 
Master Mechanics' Association ; and the 
New York, and the New England Railroad 
clubs. He was one of the three representa- 
tives of the American Society of Mechanical 
Engineers at the tests carried on at the 
locomotive testing plant which the Pennsyl- 
vania Railroad included in its exhibit at the 
St. Louis Exposition in 1904. 

Mr. Sague is the son of Horace and Har- 
riet Jane (Kelsey) Sague. He married 
Jeannette Kenyon, October 30, 1890, and 
they have one child, Isabel D. Sague. 

Sanborn, Francis N. (M.E., '91), was with 
the Manhattan Electric Light Co., New 
York, 1891-93 ; mechanical engineer with the 
Susquehanna Coal Co., Wilkesbarre, Pa., 
1894, and at Nanticoke, Pa., 1895; assistant 
master mechanic with the Coe Brass Manu- 
facturing Co., Torrington, Conn., 1896-1900; 
and later has been with the Atlas Portland 
Cement Co., Hannibal, Mo. He is a junior 
member of the American Society of Me- 
chanical Engineers; an associate member of 
the American Institute of Electrical Engi- 
neers; and a member of the American 
Institute of Mining Engineers. 

Sander, George H. (M.E., '01), was born 
in Dresden, Germany, October i, 1880; son 
of Hermann F. and Emma Sander. He en- 
tered school in Dresden, Germany, and came 
to America in 1888. He has been employed 
in the works of the General Electric Co., 
Schenectady, N. Y., from 1901 to date, at 
first in the department of tests, next as first 
assistant foreman of the transformer testing 



department, and then took the shop course 
and served for a short time in the draught- 
ing department. He is at present with H. G. 
Reist, chief engineer in the alternating-cur- 
rent engineering department of the same 
company, and taking a postgraduate course 
with Prof C. P. Steinmetz in the modern 
theory of electrical engineering' and in al- 
ternating-current phenomena. He spent 
three months in 1904 inspecting electrical 
manufacturing establishments and lighting 
installations in Germany. He is an associate 




G. H. Sander 

member of the American Institute of Elec- 
trical Engineers, and a member of the Tau 
Beta Pi fraternity and the Mohawk Lacrosse 
Club. 

Sander, Robert Hermann (M.E., '00), was 
born in Dresden, Germany, March 22, 1878; 
son of Hermann F. and Emma Sander. He 
was Instructor during the Supplementary 
Term at Stevens Institute, 1900, 1901, and 
1902; was employed in the meter department 
of the Edison Electric Illuminating Co., New 
York, 1900-01 ; conducted, jointly with Mr. 
D. Corbin, M.E., a test of the plant of the 
Cross, Austin, & Ireland Lumber Co., Long 
Island City, N. Y., 1901 ; and has been In- 
structor in advanced mathematics, me- 
chanical drawing, and manual training at 
the high school, North Plainfield, N. J., 
from 1 90 1 to date. During the summer of 



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549 



1904 he visited a number of engineering and 
industrial schools in German)'. 




R. H. Sander 

Sanders, Lewis (M.E., '98), was in the 
draughting-room of the Crocker- Wheeler 
Electric Co., Ampere, N. J., 1898; engaged 
in investigations at Stevens Institute (where 
he had assembled a gas-engine suitable for 
his purpose) concerning improvement of the 
economy of the gas-engine by means of an 
original method of exploding the gases, 1899; 
factory manager of the Holyoke Automobile 
Co., Holyoke, Mass., 1900-02. He has been 
president of the Suaqui Grande Ore Co., and 
chief engineer for the Mexican syndicate of 
the Placero del Rio Conchos (placer work- 
ing), Chihuahua, Mexico; and is now in 
charge of the steam turbine tests for the Gen- 
eral Electric Co. at West Lynn, Mass. 

Sandt, George F. (M.E., '84), was with 
Linde, Smith, & Co., manufacturers of re- 
frigerating machines. New York, 1884 ; the 
Edison Electric Light Co., New York, 1885- 
93 ; secretary and treasurer of the Electrical 
Engineering & Trading Co., New York, 
1893-95; superintendent of the Georgia Elec- 
tric Light Co., Atlanta, Ga., 1895-97; ^"^ 
for several years has been located at " The 
Home," Highlands Station, Denver, Colo. 

Sanson, Frederick Bartholomew (M.E., '99), 
was born in East Orange, N. J., November 



13, 1875; son of Thomas James and Frances 
Grace (McPherson) Sanson, and of Scotch 
descent. He was employed in the bridge 
and structural department of the Pennsylva- 
nia Steel Co., Steelton, Pa., 1899-1900; in 
the office of Percival R. Moses, consulting 
engineer. New York, 1900-01 ; and has been 
in the forge department of the Midvale 
Steel Co., Nicetown, Philadelphia, Pa., from 




F. B. Sanson 



1901 to date. He 
Psi fraternity. 



is a member of the Chi 



Sanson, Harold R. (M.E., 99), was born 
in East Orange, N. J., November 30, 1876. 
He was employed in the forge department 
of the Midvale Steel Co., Philadelphia, Pa., 
1899-1900; was assistant superintendent of 
the Northampton Portland Cement Co., 
Stockertown, Pa., 1900-01 ; was in the con- 
denser department of the International Pump 
Co., New York, 1901-02 ; and has been sec- 
retary and general manager of the Southern 
Cement Co., Birmingham, Ala., from 1902 
to date. He is also secretary and general 
manager of the Cahaba Southern Mining Co., 
Birmingham, miners and shippers of domes- 
tic and steam coal from the Cahaba-Under- 
wood seam at Hargrove, Ala. He is a mem- 
ber of the Chi Psi fraternity, and of the 
Southern and Country clubs of Birmingham. 

Mr. Sanson is the son of Thomas James 
and Frances Grace (McPherson) Sanson. 



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THE STEVENS INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY 



He married Florence Pierson, 
Orange, N. J., October 29, 1902. 



of East 




Mechanical Engineers ; and a member of the 
New York Athletic Club and of the Phi Sig- 
ma Kappa fraternity. 

Mr. Schaeffler is the son of John and Anna 



H. R. Sanson 

Sawyer, F. Hudson (M.E., '97), was in 
the employ of the Pintsch Compressing Co., 
New York, located first at Atlanta, Ga., and 
later at Memphis, Tenn., from 1898 until 
recently. He is now superintendent of the 
company and is located at Texarkana, Ark. 

Scammell, Frederick A. (M.E., '99), was 
Instructor during the Supplementary Term 
at Stevens Institute, 1899; was employed in 
the Carnegie Steel Works, Homestead, Pa., 
1899; engaged in the wood-pulp business in 
New Brunswick, 1899; and has been em- 
ployed in the Carnegie Steel Works, Mun- 
hall. Pa., at first as assistant to the steam 
expert, 1901 ; and now as superintendent of 
the steam department. 

Schaeffler, Joseph C. (M.E., '00), was 
born in New York city May 8, 1877. He 
was Instructor during the Supplementary 
Term at the Stevens Institute, 1900; was em- 
ployed in the engineering department of the 
Patten Vacuum Ice Co.^ New York, 1900- 
01 ; was assistant to Mr. George H. Barrus, 
consulting engineer and steam expert, Bos- 
ton, Mass., 1901-03 ; and has been engaged 
in consulting and contracting engineering 
work on his own account since 1903. He is 
a junior member of the American Society of 




J. C. Schaeffler 

Schaeffler. He married Mildred A. Dolliver, 
March 19, 1903. 

Schimmel, John, Jr. (M.E., '96), studied 
at Columbia University, 1896-97, receiving 
the degree of civil engineer in the latter 
year ; and has since been employed in the 
general office of the Baltimore, Chesapeake, 
& Atlantic Railway Co., Baltimore, Md. ; 
later, with the same company, at Salisbury, 
Md. ; and at present as assistant supervisor 
No. 8 with the Pennsylvania Railroad, Ty- 
rone, Pa. His graduating thesis, prepared 
jointly with Messrs. M. Shepard and Rudolph 
Bruckner, on " A Comparative Test of the 
Calorific Power of Wilkinson Carburetted 
Water-Gas and Lowe Carburetted Water- 
Gas, with the Junker Calorimeter," was 
published in the Stevens Indicator, XIII. 
He is a member of the Tau Beta Pi frater- 
nity. 

Schlesinger, Alfred Henry (M.E., '87), 
was born in College Point, N. Y., January 
7, 1865. He was with the National Water 
Purifying Co., New York, first as assistant 
and then as engineer in charge, 1887-90. 
During this time he was in charge of the 



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erection of water-purifying plants through- 
out the Eastern, Western, and Southern 
States, and designed several 
special devices in connection 
with the same. He was as- 
sociated with C. W. Thomas 
(M.E., '84), mechanical and 
hydraulic engineers. New 
York, 1890-91 ; was mechan- 
ical engineer and assistant 
superintendent of the works 
of the India Rubber Comb, 
and the Goodyear Hard Rub- 
ber companies at College 
Point, N. Y., 1891-98, in 
which latter year the com- 
panies were merged into the 
American Hard Rubber Co., 
and Mr. Schlesinger was 
made superintendent of the 
College Point works, the po- 
sition he now holds. He is 
also a stockholder in the com- 
pany. 

In 1892, under a contract 
for two power pumps and 
all the piping for the salt- 
water aquaria in the Fisheries Building at 
the World's Columbian Exposition, Mr. 
Schlesinger designed many of the fittings 



lation of the piping system in the New York 
Aquarium. During the time in which he has 



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and superintended their erection. In 1893 he 
drew plans for and supervised the instal- 



Hard-Rubber Pump for Conveying Corrosive Liquids 
A. H. Schlesinger 



been associated with the rubber companies, 
he has designed and installed new tools for 
the manufacture of hard-rubber goods. 

In 1894 he designed a double-acting hard- 
rubber pump to convey a solution of iron in 
nitric acid, which, prior to that time, was 
exceedingly difficult to handle. The pump 
is easily constructed and kept in order, and 
is applicable to any driving power. The 
pump end is complete in itself, and can be 
attached to a steam end for driving, or to a 
crank to be driven by belt power or electric 
motor. Several sizes of these pumps have 
l:)een put on the market and installed, the 
largest being of six-inch diameter and ten- 
inch stroke. To meet a demand for a smaller 
pump, a single-acting plunger pump, to be 
worked by hand or by Ijelt power, has been 
designed and manfuactured tuider Mr. 
Schlesinger's super\'ision. Over sixty of 
these machines are now in use in chemical 
plants together with complete systems of 
piping. 

He contributed an article on the " Devel- 
opment of a Steam Plant of the Early 
'Fifties " to the Stevens Institute Indicator 
for July, 190 1. 



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THE STEVENS INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY 



He is a member of the board of control, 
and vice-president of the Poppenhiisen In- 
stitute at CoUege Point; director 
of the College Point Savings 
Bank; a member of the board 
of trustees of the Oueensborough 
Library, New York city ; a mem- 
ber of Consistory, and treasurer 
of the First Reformed Church of 
College Point; and a member of 
the Chi Psi fraternity. 

Mr. Schlesinger is the son of 
Auguste D. and Je'rusha C. (Pit- 
kin) Schlesinger. His mother is 
a direct lineal descendant of Wil- 
liam Pitkin, third Governor of 
Connecticut, 1766-69. The sub- 
ject of this sketch married Mary 
Jones, September 25, 1895, and they have 
one child, Alfred Francis Schlesinger. 

Schmidt, Edward C. (M.E., 95), was born 
in Jersey City, N. J., May 14, 1874; son of 
John Frederick and Catherine E. (Bisbord) 
Schmidt. He was employed in the engineer- 
ing department of the Kalbfleisch Chemical 
Co., New York, 1895-96; in the like depart- 
ment of the C. W. Hunt Co., New York, 
1896; in the steam department of the Edison 
Electric Illuminating Co., Brooklyn, 1896- 
97; in the construction department of the 
American Stoker Co., New York, 1897-98; 
and, connected with the University of Illi- 



Assistant Professor of Railway Mechani- 
cal Engineering. He is now engineer of 





nois, Urbana, 
three years 



, 1898-1904, for the first 
Instructor, and then as 



Front End ov Car — Interior 
E. C. Schmidt 

tests for the Kerr Turbine Co,, Wellsville, 
N. Y. 

In 1899-1903 he conducted train-resist- 
ance experiments on the Illinois Central ; 
Cleveland, Cincinnati, Chicago, & St. Louis; 
and the New Jersey Central railroads. He 
also designed Railway Test Car No. 17, 
owned by the University of Illinois and the 
Illinois Central Railway, of which illustra- 
tions are here shown. 

In 1901 he conducted train-resistance ex- 
periments on the New York Central & Hud- 
son River railroad to provide data necessary 
for the change in motive power in the Park 
Avenue tunnel, New York, from steam to 
electricity. In this connection he 
took part in competitive tests 
of steam locomotives and electric 
motor cars at the works of the 
General Electric Co., Schenec- 
tady, N. Y. 

Mr. Schmidt is the author of 
the following papers : " Appli- 
cations of Compressed Air in 
Railway Shop Practice," read be- 
fore the St. Louis Railway Club, 
February, 1900'; "The Dynamom- 
eter Car and its Uses," read 
before the Pacific Coast Railway 
Club, November, 1901 ; and 
" Education in Railway Engi- 
neering at the University of Il- 
linois," read before the Illinois 
Society of Engineers and Surveyors, Jan- 
uary, 1900. 



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553 



He is a member of the Western and the 
St. Louis Railway clubs ; of the Society for 




E. C. Schmidt 

the Promotion of Engineering Education; 
and of the Tau Beta Pi fraternity. 



machines) 1887-89; Division 3 (metallurgy, 
electro-chemistry, and gas manufacture), 
1889-92; and Division 18 (steam engineer- 
ing), 1892-1903. The work in the latter 
division involved the examination of appli- 
cations concerning steam-boiler furnaces, 
steam boilers, feed-water heaters and puri- 
fiers, injectors, simple and multiple expan- 
sion steam-engines, steam pumping-engines, 
pulsometers, simple and compound locomo- 
tives, valve-gears, and shaft-governors. In 
1903 he engaged in professional work as ex- 
pert in patent causes and solicitor of patents 
in Washington, D. C. 

In 1896 he investigated the patent systems 
and industrial arts of England, Germany, 
France, Switzerland, Austria and Italy. In 
1902 he investigated the irrigation problem 
of Egypt and inspected the dams of Assouan 
and Assiut. 

He received the degree of Bachelor of 
Laws from the National Law University, 
Washington, in June, 1889, and that of Mas- 
ter of Patent Law from the Columbian Uni- 
versity of Jurisprudence and Diplomacy, 
Washington, June, 1895. He is a junior 



Schmitt, Joseph A., Jr. (M.E., 98), was 
born in Jersey City, N. J., December 26, 
1874. He was designer with A. Schrader's 
Sons, manufacturers of bicycle-tire valves 
and United States diving-apparatus, 1898- 
99 ; in the engineering department of the 
Garvin Machine Co., New York, 1899-1900; 
with the C. W. Hunt Co., manufacturers of 
coal-handling machinery, etc., West New 
Brighton, Staten Island, N. Y., 1900-02, at 
first in the engineering department and later 
as chief draughtsman in the executive de- 
partment ; in the engineering department of 
the United Coke & Gas Co. (now at Camden, 
N. J.), 1902-03; and has been in the engi- 
neering department of the Federal Sugar Re- 
fining Co., of Yonkers, N. Y., as head 
draughtsman from 1903 to date. 

Mr. Schmitt is the son of Joseph A. and 
Louisa (Morschhauser) Schmitt. He mar- 
ried Katheryne M. Reis, October 29, 1902. 

Schoenborn, William Ernest (M.E., "87), 
was born in Washington, D. C. He has been 
an examiner in the United States Patent 
Office, 1887-1903, in the following depart- 
ments: Division 25 (mills and threshing- 




W. E. Schoenborn 

member of the American Society of Mechan- 
ical Engineers, and a member of the Chi 
Psi fraternity. 

Schramme, John T. (M.E., '92), was born 
in New York city March 6, 1870. He was 



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a student in electricity at Columbia College, 
New York, 1892-93 ; with Schramme & Ful- 
ler, New York, 1893-95; 3-"^ with Schramme 
Bros., stockbrokers, New York, 1895-98; 
since which time he has not engaged in busi- 
ness. 

Mr. Schramme is the son of Christian F. 
and Marian Schramme. He married Fran- 
ces I. Sage, June 29, 1892, and they have one 
child. Marian Irene Schramme. 

Schumacher, H. J. (M.E., '91), was em- 
ployed in the machine-shop, pattern-shop, 
foundry, and draughting-room of the Brown 
& Sharpe Manufacturing Co., Providence, 
R. I., 1891-92; superintendent of the Stam- 
ford Machine Works. Stamford, Conn., 1892- 
93 ; in the draughting-room of the Garvin 
Machine Co., New York, 1893; was located 
in Florida for a few years ; and has since 
been with the American Surety Co . Brook- 
lyn, N. Y. His graduating thesis, " Rolling 
Friction, Thames River Drawbridge," was 
read before the American Society of Civil 
Engineers. While in the employ of the 
Brown & Sharpe Manufacturing Co., he de- 
termined the cost of cast iron at spout of 
cupola and published the result of his inves- 
tigation in the Stevens Indicator. 

Scott, A. D. (M.E., '01), has been with 
die Varley Magnet Co., Providence, R. I., 
from 1901 to date. 

Scott, Frederick Edwin (M.E., '97), was 
born in Jersey City, N. J., June 8, 1875 '• son 
of John Edwin and Hattie Augusta (Mc- 
Williams) Scott. Employed by the National 
Contracting Co., he was engaged in the con- 
struction of the underground trolley system 
for the Metropolitan Street Railway Co., 
New York, 1897-98; but upon the outbreak 
of the war with Spain he volunteered and 
was detailed to the U.S.S. " Badger," on 
which he served until honorably discharged 
in the fall of 1898, when he obtained the po- 
sition of assistant purchasing-agent with the 
New Amsterdam Gas Co., New York. In 
1899 he was advanced to the position of chief 
clerk in the auditor's office, and in 1901 he 
became superintendent's assistant in the 
works at Ravenswood, Long Island City, 
N. Y. He was then with the J. Edward Og- 
den Co., New York, as assistant purchasing- 



agent, 1902-03; in the employ of the Sea- 
coast National Bank, Asbury Park, N. J., 
1903-04; and since April of the latter year 




F. E. Scott 

has been inspector on construction with the 
Astoria Light, Heat, & Power Co., Astoria, 
Long Island, N. Y. He is a member of the 
Chi Psi fraternity. 




J. H. Scorr 

Scott, James Hamilton (M.E., '89), was 
born in Petersburg, Va., July 18, 1867. He 
was analytical chemist in the laboratory of 



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555 



the New York Cream of Tartar Works, 
Brooklyn, N. Y., 1889 ; engineer of tests 
with the Southern Pacific Railway, Sacra- 
mento, Cal., 1890-91, in which capacity he 
conducted a series of elaborate wheel tests 
to overcome the cracking of wheels from the 
braking heat, the results of which were pub- 
lished in the Proceedings of the Master Car- 
Ijuilders' Association. He was a mem1:)er of 
the Richmond Iron Works Co., Richmond, Va., 
builders of stationary engines and boilers, 
and contractors for iron lighthouses, 1891-95. 
and general manager of the works, 1895-1 901. 
Mr. Scott was the son of Major Frederic 
R. and Sarah Frances Scott. He married 
Mary Wingfield, daughter of Bishop Wing- 
field, of Northern California, October 11, 
1893, and they had three children. He died 
in Richmond, August 24, 1901. 

Scott, Rossiter S. (M.E., 98), at the time 
his graduating exercises were taking place, 
was serving as a volunteer in the war with 
Spain. He did service on the U.S.S. " Badg- 
er," and was honorably discharged at the 
conclusion of the war. He was with the 
Baltimore Traction Co., until 1900; he then 
spent one and a half years making a tour 
of the world. He was assistant engineer in 
the engineering department of the United 
Railways & Electric Co., Baltimore, Md., 
1901-02; and has been with the Consol- 
idated Gas Co., Baltimore, Md., from 1902 to 
date, first as engineer in charge of construc- 
tion and now as engineer in charge of works. 

Scribner, Charles Walter (M.E., '82), was 
born in Red Bank, N. J., September 7, 1857. 
He spent a year at Harvard, but, Princeton 
being his family college, he took the classi- 
cal course there, and received the degree of 
Bachelor of Arts in 1880 with a $500 fellow- 
ship in mathematics. He was designer and 
draughtsman at the Wallis Iron Works, Jer- 
sey City, N. J., 1882-85; held the principal- 
ship of the Baltimore & Ohio Railroad Co.'s 
technological school, Baltimore, Md., 1885- 
87; was with the Daft Electric Co., Green- 
ville, N. J., 1887-88 ; was Professor of Me- 
chanical Engineering at Ames Agricultural 
College, Ames, Iowa, 1889-92; held the like 
chair at the University of Illinois, Cham- 
paign, 111., 1892-93 ; Instructor in Mechanical 
Engineering at the University of Pennsyl- 



vania, Philadelphia, 1894-97; and Professor 
of Mechanical Engineering at the North 
Carolina College of Agriculture and Me- 
chanic Arts, Raleigh, N. C, 1898-1901. In 
the latter year he gave up the profession of 
teaching and took a position with the Hib- 
bard-Rodman-Ely Safe Co., Plainfield, N. J.; 
in 1903 associated himself with Mr. F. B. 
Rae, consulting engineer, New York; and is 
now in business for himself. He contributed 
an article on " Unfinished Inventions " to 
Cassier's Magazine, 1901. He is a member 
of the American Society of Mechanical En- 
gineers. 

Mr. Scribner is the son of Rev. William 
and Julia Scribner. He married Helen E. 
Vail (deceased 1899) June 30, 1891, and 
they had four children, Helen Katharine, 
Agnes Elizabeth, Charles Walter, and Julia 
Scribner. 

Seaman, David S. (M.E., '02), is in the 
Boston office of the Green Fuel Economizer 
Co. He is a member of the Theta Xi and 
Tau Beta Pi fraternities. 



Searing, Lewis (M.E., 
New York city July 21, 



was born in 
After com- 




Lewis Searing 



pleting his school education he was employed 
in a factory, building small electrical appar- 
atus; was afterwards employed in Edison's 
laboratory as assistant to Mr. Edison during 



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the winter of 1882-83. He then took a fur- 
ther school course to prepare for Stevens. 
He was first assistant to Dr. Geyer in the 
Electrical Department of Stevens Institute, 
and assistant in President Morton's private 
laboratory, 1888-89. He next went to Paris 
to enter the Geyer-Bristol recording amme- 
ter for the prize competition and to exhibit 
the meter at the Exposition. 

Since 1890 he has been established in 
Denver, Colo., as a consulting and construct- 
ing engineer in partnership with Mr. Frank 
E. Shepard, under the firm name of Shepard 
& Searing. In 1895 this firm acquired the 
plant of the Overland Machinery Co., and 
incorporated the Denver Engineering Works 



1894 he designed and erected the Citizens' 
Electric Light Plant at Leadville, Colo., at 
an altitude of 10,000 feet, — the first in Col- 
orado using direct connected units, vertical 
cross-compound engines, and supplying arc 
lights in any number from incandescent cir- 
cuits. In 1895 he installed the electric power 
and lighting plant for the Omaha & Grant 
Smelter at Denver, and the lighting plant for 
the Antlers Hotel at Colorado Springs. In 
1896 he installed one of the then largest elec- 
tric pumping plants in the country, with 
pumps of an aggregate capacity of 2,000 gal- 
lons per minute, for pumping out the flooded 
coal-mine of the Colorado Fuel & Iron Co. 
at Rouse, Colo. This electric plant displaced 




PL\Nr or IHE Dln\lr Enginllkino \\ ( 
Lewis Scaring 



Co., building mining and smelting ma- 
chinery which is shipped to all parts of the 
world. He held the office of secretary and 
treasurer, besides acting as constructing 
engineer, until 1898, when he was made vice- 
president and general manager, which posi- 
tion he now holds. 

He has been employed as an expert wit- 
ness in numerous legal cases, dealing prin- 
cipally with suits arising from steam-boiler 
explosions and in injunction suits between 
rival electric-lighting companies, and has 
conducted a large number of tests of prom- 
inent engineering plants and materials. 

In 1893 he installed an electric-lighting 
plant at the Ruby Coal Mine, at an altitude 
of 10,000 feet and amid 10 feet of snow. In 



a compressed-air system, did more work, and 
saved about 30 tons of coal per day, and, not- 
withstanding many predictions that 500-volt 
apparatus could not be operated in a flooded 
mine, was a success and is operating to-day. 

In 1901 he was active in forming the Den- 
ver Machinery Manufacturers' Association, 
which for seven months successfully fought 
a machinists' strike. He is treasurer and 
member of the executive committee of this 
association. He also served two years as a 
member of the administrative council of the 
National Metal Trades Association, and was 
on the Fifteenth District Committee of the 
National Founders' Association. 

He has contributed several articles to the 
technical journals, principally the Electrical 



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Engineer, and chiefly on the subject of elec- 
tricity versus air for power in mining opera- 




Engine and Dynamo Room of the Citizens' Electric Eight Plant 

AT Leadvile, Colo. 

Lewis Searing 

tions. These papers have called forth much 
discussion, especially on the part of the ad- 
vocates of compressed air. His graduating 
thesis, on " Experimental Determination of 
the Variation of E. M. F. in the Armature 
of the Westinghouse Dynamo," was pub- 
lished in the Journal of the Franklin Insti- 
tute, 1899. 

His patent inventions include a vacuum 
tube lightning-arrester, an automatic coal- 
lecording device for railways, an improved 
design of crushing-rolls, and an improved 
head motion for ore-concentrating tables. 

He is a member of the American Society 
of Mechanical Engineers, and of the Denver 
Club, and an associate member of the Ameri- 
can Institute of Electrical Engineers. 

Mr. Searing is the son of Peter J. L. and 
Arabella (Lewis) Searing. He is a direct 
descendant of Francis Lewis, one of the New 
York signers of the Declaration of Inde- 
pendence. He married Jeanie P. Dana, June 
29, 1892. 

Seeligsberg, Leonard William (M.E., '96), 
was born in Hoboken, N. J., December 21, 



1875. He was draughtsman at the Hecla 
Iron Works, Greenpoint, N. Y., 1896-97; 
was employed in 
the shops of the 
Brown & Sharpe 
Manufacturing Co., 
Providence, R. I., 
1897-98; and has 
been Professor in 
Mechanical Engi- 
neering, vice-presi- 
dent, and secretary 
of the Consolidated 
Schools, New York, 
from 1858 to 1904. 
He has written text- 
books on mathe- 
matics, mechanics, 
pneumatics, hydro- 
mechanics and me- 
chanical drawing, 
and has also edited 
many other techni- 
cal works published 
by the Consolidated 
Schools. He is now 
with the McGraw 
Publishing Co. 
Mr. Seeligsberg is the son of William and 
Antonie (Kayser) Seeligsberg. He married 
Evelyn Young Gridley, January 15, 1902. 

Seely, Frederick (M.E., '98), was born 
in New York city April 18, 1877; son of 
John F. and Margaret I. Seely, and of New 
England ancestry. He was assistant to the 
constructing engineer with Naughton & Co., 
general contractors, at the time of the in- 
stallation of the underground trolley on 
Third and Eighth avenues. New York, 1898- 
99 ; took the course of postgraduate work 
leading to the degree of Civil Engineer at 
Purdue University, Lafayette, Ind., 1899- 
1900; was inspector in the Bureau of Yards 
and Docks at the New York Navy Yard, 
1900-01, and in the latter year was struc- 
tural steel draughtsman in the Bureau of 
Yards and Docks, Washington, D. C, and 
inspector of masonry for the Aqueduct Com- 
mission on the new Croton dam. New York ; 
was an inspector in the Bureau of Yards and 
Docks at the New York Navy Yard, 1901- 
03 ; inspector on construction work at the 
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and is now assistant engineer in the Topo- 
graphical Department, Borough of Queens, 
New York city. 




Frederick Seely 

Seeman, Edgar G. (M.E., '93), is with the 
S. Obermayer Co., Pittsburg, Pa. 

Self, Edward D. (M.E., '86), was in the 
employ of the Electrical Accumulator Co., 
Newark, N. J., 1886; and later was engineer 
at Albany, N. Y., for the Edison Electric 
Light Co., and mechanical engineer with 
Coombs, Crosby, & Eddy, New York. He 
was engaged in engineering and construction 
work, designing and purchasing machinery 
for large mills in Australia and Mexico, 
making reports on a transmission of power 
project for a mining-plant in Mexico, and 
making examinations of mines in South 
America. Pie was superintendent of a mine 
in Guiana. In 1894 he received the degree 
of Engineer of Mines from Columbia Uni- 
versity. He was assistant in mining at Lake 
Superior for the class in practical mining, 
of the Columbia School of Mines ; and super- 
intendent and manager of the Sonora Cop- 
per Co., Sonora, Mex. He received a patent 
for a system of ore-concentration. 

He was consulting mining engineer (later 
consulting engineer) with the Transvaal 
Gold Fields Co., Johannesburg, South Afri- 
ca, his general work consisting in mining 
engineering; the making of reports; con- 



struction of stamp mills, cyanide plants, 
coal-breakers, sorting-plants, railway con- 
struction, etc. ; and making investigations of 
the economics of milling and gold recovery. 
He made a report, as consulting engineer, on 
the mineral land grant of 10,000,000 acres of 
the Cassiar Central Railway Co., British Co- 
lumbia, and was general manager of the 
company's prospecting- and business opera- 
tions in the Cassiar district. He has been 
general manager of the San Carlos Copper 
Co., Linares, Nuevo Leon, Mex., from 1900 
to date. 

His thesis, " Aluminum and Its Alloys : 
Experimental Investigation of Strength Con- 
ductivity and Electrical Qualities," was pub- 
lished in the Journal of the Franklin Insti- 
tute, 1887. 

He is a member of the American Society 
of Mining Engineers, and of the London 
(England) Institute of Mining and Metal- 
lurgy. 

Serrell, Lemuel William (M.E., '87), has 
been engaged as superintendent of the C & 
C Electric Motor C^o., in which capacity he 
designed the machines manufactured by 
them, from ] horse-power upward; super- 
intendent of the Daft Electric Co., Marion, 
N. J. ; in the electric railroad business on 
his own account, having built many miles of 
electric railroad, including the designing 
and construction of car houses, power sta- 
tions, etc., in Paterson, Passaic, and Plain- 
field, N. J., Baltimore, Md., Worcester, 
Mass., White Plains and Oswego, N. Y., and 
other places. He is now practising as a con- 
tracting engineer in New York. He has 
taken out several patents relating to the con- 
struction and regulation of electric motors. 
His contributions to technical journals in- 
clude articles on generator and motor con- 
struction in the " Electrical World " and 
" Electrical Engineer ; " articles on electric 
railway construction in the " Street Railway 
Journal " and " Cassier's Magazine ; " and on 
electric railways as investments, in the " En- 
gineering Magazine." He is a member of 
the American Institute of Electrical Engi- 
neers, and of the American Gas Light Asso- 
ciation. 

Shaw, John Cargill (M.E., '00), was born 
in Brooklyn, N. Y., May 11, 1879; son of 



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John Cargill and Kate (Vanderhoef) Shaw. 
His father was a prominent speciaHst in 
nervous disorders and insanity, and for 
seventeen years was cHnical professor in his 




J. C. Shaw 

speciaUy at the Long Island College. The 
subject of this sketch was engaged in experi- 
mental automobile work covering various 
types, French and American, 1900-01 ; build- 
ing, repairing and dealing in automobiles 
under the firm name of Patterson & Shaw, 
Brooklyn, N. Y., 1901-02; engaged as a con- 
structing engineer in the department of en- 
gineering of the General Power Co., New 
York, manufacturing a new type of internal 
combustion engine, 1902-03 ; and is now in 
the construction department of the Consoli- 
dated Gas Co., New York. He is a member 
of Fulton Council 299, Royal Arcanum. 

Sheldon, William H. (M.E., '78), was em- 
ployed in the shops of the International & 
Great Northern Railroad, Palestine, Tex., 
1878-82; was chief draughtsman for the 
Northern Pacific Railroad Co., Brainerd, 
Minn., 1882-83 ; president of the Keystone 
Rubber Co., Morrisville, Pa., 1883-87; man- 
ager of the Columbia Rubber Works Co., 
New York, 1887-1900; and of the firm of 
Wm. H. Sheldon & Co., manufacturers of 
rubber goods. New York, from 1900 to date. 
He is a member of the American Society of 
Mechanical Engineers. 



Shepard, Horace L. (M.E., '92), was 
superintendent of the tanning department 
with George A. Shepard & Son, hat-leather 
manufacturers. Bethel, Conn., 1893-94; and 
has been a member of the firm, and manager 
of the same department, from 1894 to date. 
In 1897-98 he made extensive research, with 
Prof. J. J. Hummel, F.I.C., F.C.S., of York- 
shire College, Leeds, England, into modern 
methods of dyeing leather, and investigated 
many of the new coal-tar products for this 
use. Jointly with Prof. H. R. Proctor, 
F. I. C, of Yorkshire College, Leather Indus- 
tries Department, England, he made further 
research into the chemistry of tanning dur- 
ing the year 1898. 

Shepard, Martin (M.E., '96), was a student 
in architecture at Gallier Court, New Orleans, 
La., 1896-98; was architectural draughts- 
man in New York, 1898-1902, first for Mr. 
E. P. Casey, afterward for Carrere & Hast- 
ings, and finally draughtsman and assistant 
superintendent for Messrs. Stokes & Duboy 
on the Ansonia apartment hotel ; and has been 
a member of the firm of Toledano & Wogan, 
architects. New Orleans, from 1902 to date. 

Shiebler, Andrew (M.E., '92), was born 
in Brooklyn, N. Y., September 9, 1871 ; son 




Andrew Shiebler 

of Andrew K. and Mary E. (Shipley) Shieb- 
ler. He was draughtsman with the B. F. 



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Sturtevant Co., Boston, 1892-94; and in 
March of the latter year he was placed in 
charge of the draughting-room of the com- 
pany's Philadelphia branch. Close applica- 
tion to work overtaxed his strength, and he 
died from typhoid fever August 11, 1895. 

Shiebler, Marvin (M.E., '00), was born in 
Brooklyn, N. Y., January 27, 1879; son of 
Andrew K. and Mary E. (Shipley) Shiebler. 
He entered the Institute with the Stevens 
School scholarship. He was mechanical 
draughtsman with the Atlas Cement Co., 
Northampton, Pa., 1900; draughtsman, and. 



plant of the Carnegie Steel Co., Ltd., Home- 
stead, Pa., 1895-96; at the blast furnaces of 




Marvin Shiebler 

later, salesman in the New York office of 
the B. F. Sturtevant Co., 1900-01 ; and was 
employed, successively as draughtsman, in- 
spector, and engineer, in the department of 
construction at the Ravenswood works of 
the New Amsterdam Gas Co., Long Island 
City, N. Y., 1901-02; was constructing engi- 
neer with the New York Mutual Gas Light 
Co., 1902-04; and has been assistant engi- 
neer with the Consolidated Gas Co., of New 
York, from 1904 to date. He is a junior mem- 
ber of the American Society of Mechanical 
Engineers, and a member of the Crescent 
Athletic Club, and of the Chi Psi fraternity. 

■ Shoemaker, William Erety (M.E., '94), 
was born in Bridgeton, N. J., July 8, 1871. 
He was employed in the open-hearth furnace 




W. E. Shoemaker 

the same company at Duquesne, Pa., and 
then in the draughting-room and with the 
civil engineering corps at its Duquesne steel 
works, 1896-98; was draughtsman with the 
Ohio Steel Co., Youngstown, O., 1898-99; 
assistant manager, Longdale Iron Co., Long- 
dale, Va., 1899-1901 ; master mechanic at 
the Central blast furnaces and docks of the 
American Steel & Wire Co., Cleveland, O., 
1901 ; represented F. C. Roberts & Co., of 
Philadelphia, Pa., as resident engineer in 
charge of constructing a blast furnace for 
the Nova Scotia Steel & Coal Co., Ltd., at 




Blast Furnace at Sydney Mines, N. S. 
W. E. Shoemaker 

Sydney Mines, N. S., 1902. From July, 
1903, to January, 1904, he was mechanical 



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superintendent for the Nova Scotia Steel & 
Coal Co., Ltd., and since the latter date has 
been superintendent of the blast furnace, re- 
tort coke ovens, and coal washing plant of 
the company at Sydney Mines, N. S., 
Canada. 

Mr. Shoemaker is the son of Horace B. 
and Mary E. (Erety) Shoemaker. He mar- 
ried Jennie Howe, June 7, 1899, 'ind they 
have one child, Jane Howe Shoemaker. 

Shoudy, William Allen (M.E., '99), Instruc- 
tor in Experimental Engineering at Stevens 
Institute of Technology. For biography, see 
page 282. 

Shreve, Arthur L. (M.E., "88), was assist- 
ant engineer with the Arctic Ice Machine 
Co., 1888; was employed in the Mount Clare 
shops of the Baltimore & Ohio Railroad, 
Baltimore, Md., 1888-89; assistant engineer 
in charge of construction of intercepting 
sewers, Baltimore, 1889-92; assistant city 
commissioner, in charge of street improve- 
ments, Baltimore, 1892 ; general superintend- 
ent for Isaac S. Filbert, paving-contractor 
for sheet-asphalt pavement, Baltimore, 1892- 
95 ; and has been general manager for the 
Southern Asphalt Paving Co., of Baltimore, 
from 1895 to date; also its vice-president 
since 1900. As superintendent for Mr. Fil- 
bert and manager for the Southern Asphalt 
Paving Co., he has had entire charge of the 
construction of all of the asphalt pavements 
laid in Baltimore since July i, 1892. From 
1895 to date he has been a partner in the gen- 
eral contracting firm of Arthur L. Shreve & 
Co., Baltimore, Md. 

Sidman, Alfred Gordon (M.E., '99), was 
employed in the draughting-room of Post & 
McCord, Greenpoint, Long Island, N. Y., 
1899; and was assistant engineer and later 
chief draughtsman with the Barber Asphalt 
Paving Co., New York, 1 899-1902. During 
this time he inspected, at Groton, N. Y., the 
structural steel work for a large building to 
be sent to Venezuela and used for a refining- 
plant; installed at the Jersey City plant a 
compressor, oil-storage system, boiler, and 
other improvements; rebuilt the asphalt plant 
at Fort Wayne, Ind., took charge of, and 
ran a three weeks' test of a smoke-consumer 
which had been installed at the company's 



Chicago plant ; also inspected and rebuilt the 
plant at Decatur, 111., and one at Marion, 
Iowa. As chief draughtsman at the New 
York office his work consisted in design- 
ing plants, one of which was erected at New 
Orleans, La. He is now with L. B. Still- 
well, consulting electrical engineer. New 
York, who is also electrical director for the 
Interborough Rapid Transit Co., New York. 

Siegele, August, Jr. (M.E., '01), was born 
in New York city January 24, 1878; son of 
August and Louise Siegele. He was Instruc- 
tor during the Supplementary Term at Ste- 
vens Institute, 1901 ; assistant engineer in 
the gas generating department of the Liquid 
Carbonic Acid Manufacturing Co., New 
York, 1901 ; draughtsman, designing floating 
derricks, for the Merritt & Chapman Der- 




AuGusT Siegele, Jr. 

rick & Wrecking Co., New York, 1902; su- 
perintendent for Adam Weber Sons, New 
York, manufacturers of fire and chimnev 
brick, enameled clay retorts, etc., at Weber, 
N. J., 1903 ; and is now in the construction 
department of the Consolidated Gas Co., New 
York. He was assistant secretary of the Clay 
jNIiners and Manufacturers' Association of 
the State of New Jersey, 1903. He is a mem- 
ber of the Theta Nu Epsilon fraternity. 

Silber, Albert A. A. (M.E., '85), was born 
in Hoboken, N. J., September 14, 1865 ; son 



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of Andreas and Sophie L. H. (Sievers) Sil- 
ber. He p-raduated at the Hoboken hish 




A. A. A. SlLBKR 

school, passing examinations for the Stevens 
scholarship. He was Professor of German 
and Instructor in Mathematics at the Flori- 
da State College, Lake City, Fla., 1895-97. 
From 1897 to date he has been engaged in 
journalism, and is now located at Jackson- 
ville. Fla. 

Sinclair, Arnold (j\I.E.. "02), is superin- 
tendent of the J\Iartins Creek Portland Ce- 
ment Co.. Easton. Pa. 

Sinclair, Duncan G. (]\I.E.. "02), is em- 
ployed as superintendent of construction at 
the new blooming' mills at the South Works 
of the Illinois Steel Co.. Chicago. 111. 

Sinclair, George M. (M.E.. "84). was em- 
ployed in the jMidvale Steel Works, Xice- 
lown. Pa.. 1884-89; with the Bethlehem Iron 
Co.. Bethlehem, Pa., 1889-90; at the Midvale 
Steel Works, 1891-95 ; was secretary and 
treasurer of the Philadelphia Machine Tool 
Co.. builders of standard machines for test- 
ing materials, etc.. 1895-1902: and has been 
treasurer of the Falkenan-Sinclair Ma- 
chine Co., Philadelphia, from 1902 to date. 
He is a member of the American Society 
of ^Mechanical Engineers and of the Frank- 
lin Institute. 



Sinclair, John J. (M.E.. "oi). was born in 
Cranford. X. J.. December 20, 1878; son of 
George ^^'. and Mary A. Sinclair, of Scotch 
and English descent. After graduation he 
entered the shops of the \\'estinghouse Elec- 
tric & j\Ianufacturing Co. In October, 1901. 
he was placed in the railway division of the 
electrical engineering department of the same 
company, at East Pittsburg, Pa. He has 
been engaged in calculation of power re- 
quirements for operation of street railways ; 
also in the testing of cars in operation on 
various roads throughout the country. He 
is an associate member of the American In- 
stitute of Electrical Engineers and a mem- 




J. J. SiN'CLAIR 

her of the Electric Club of Pittsburg, and 
of the Tlieta Xi fraternity. 

Sissons, W. J. (AI.E., "oo), was employed 
in the Providence Engineering \Vorks, Prov- 
idence, R. I., 1900-01 ; and in the Municipal 
Engineering Department. Havana, Cuba, 
1901-03. He has been Provincial Super- 
visor at San Isidro. X. E.. Philippine Islands, 
from 1903 to date. 

Slack, John Ruggles (ALE.. "86), was grad- 
uated from Columbia College before entering 
Stevens in 1884. He was an apprentice in 
the shops of the X^ew York Central Rail- 
road; draughtsman at the Frankfort (N. Y.) 
shops of the West Shore Railroad, 1886-90; 



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chief draughtsman, and later mechanical en- 
gineer, with the New York Central Rail- 
road, 1890-98; mechanical engineer with the 
Central Railroad of New Jersey, 1898-99; 
assistant superintendent of motive power 
with the Delaware & Hudson Railroad, 1899- 
1901 ; and superintendent of the same de- 
partment, at Albany, N. Y., from 1901 until 
his death in 1904. In 1896 Mr. Slack was 
sent abroad by the New York Central Rail- 
road to make a study of Austrian, French, 
German, and English railroad methods, giv- 
ing special attention to the Austrian roads. 
He was a member of the American Society 
of Mechanical Engineers, and of the Master 
Car Builders' Association. He was chair- 
man of the committee on draft gear which 
reported to the latter association in June, 
1900, and also reported to the International 
Railway Congress in 1901 the progress real- 
ized in the construction of locomotives for 
high-speed trains. Mr. Slack died of tuber- 
cular meningitis at the Presbyterian Hos- 
pital in New York city, August i, 1904. 

Slawson, Harry Harding (M.E., '98), was 
born in New York city July 17, 1875 ; son 
of David W. and ]\Iary O. Slawson. He was 
with the Bristol Co., manufacturers of re- 
cording gauges, Waterbury, Conn., being 
employed principally in the electrical testing 
department, 1898-1903, and is now with the 
Brighton Mills, Passaic, N. J. 

Slipper, Charles Jenkins (M.E., '95), was 
born in Brooklyn, N. Y., February 3, 1875; 
son of Joseph Augustus and Zillah Jenkins 
Slipper. He was with the Carter Package 
Co., and the Welsbach Gas Lamp Co., down 
to 1898; draughtsman for the John Steph- 
enson Car Co., Ltd., New York, and Eliza- 
beth, N. J., and with the Central Railroad 
of New Jersey, 1898; acting assistant engi- 
neer with the Manhattan Railway Co., New 
York, 1899-1902; assistant engineer with the 
Rapid Transit Subway Construction Co., 
1902; erecting engineer with the Alphons 
Custodis Chimney Construction Co., New- 
York; and since the latter year has been lo- 
cated in Boston, Mass. His graduating the- 
sis, written in conjunction with Messrs. E. 
M. Harrison, Jr., and E. C. Schmidt, on 
" Experiments with a Boiler Arranged to 
Serve as a Calorimeter for Determining the 



Heating Value of Fuel," was published in the 
Stevens Institute Indicator, 1900. He is a 
member of the Engineers' and University 
clubs of Brooklyn. 

Slocum, Mors Ostrander (M.E., '93), was 
born in Scottsville, N. Y., December 24, 
1866. He graduated with the degree of 




M. O. Slocum 

Bachelor of Arts at the University of Roch- 
ester in 1889. He has been engaged in tel- 
ephone engineering for the Western Electric 
Co. ever since graduation, and has served 
this company in various capacities. In 1893- 
94 he installed telephone exchanges in New 
York city, and had charge of the winding 
department. Transferred to the Chicago 
office of the company, he spent one year in 
the experimental department, and for two 
years was in charge of the commercial part 
of the business between Chicago and New 
York and foreign houses. From October, 
1897, to October, 1899, he was assistant to 
the shop superintendent in the Chicago 
house, and had general charge of the manu- 
factures. Since the latter date he has been 
connected with the telephone sales depart- 
ment at Chicago. He is a member of the 
Hamilton Club of Chicago; of the Garden 
City Council 202, Royal Arcanum; and of 
the Delta Kappa Epsilon fraternity. 

Mr. Slocum is the son of George E. and 
Lydia Fort Slocum. He married Gertrude 



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G. Glass, December 27, 1894, and they have dette and Prudence A. (La Mont) Smith, 
two children, Sanford Glass and Lester Mors He married Harriet L. Germain, February 
Slocum. 24, 1902. 

Smart, F. R., Jr. (M.E., '95), was with the 
East River Gas Co., Long Island City, N. Y., 
1895-1900, in 1897 being" appointed superin- 
tendent in charge of the laying of mains, 
setting of meters, etc. From 1900 to date 
he has been with the York Gas Co., York, 
Pa., at first as superintendent and now as 
general manager.. 

Smith, Abel I., Jr. (M.E., '98), was born 
in Jersey City, N. J., September 23, 1877; 
son of Abel L and Laura Howell Smith. He 
was employed in the meter department of 
the Edison Electric Illuminating Co., New 
York, 1898-99; a student at the New York 
Law School, 1899-1901 ; admitted to practice 
at the New York Bar in the latter year; with 
Murphy & Metcalf, patent attorneys. New 
York, 1901-02 ; then engaged in the practice 
of patent law with R. Forsyth Little, Jr., New- 
York ; and is now assistant attorney for the 
New York City Railway Co. He is a 
junior member of the American Society of 
Mechanical Engineers ; a member of the Chi 
Phi fraternity ; and a sergeant of Squadron 
A of the National Guard of the State of 
New York. 

Smith, Annesley De Los (M.E., '97), was 
born in New York city March 20, 1874. He 
was draughtsman and inspector and designer 
of car bodies with the John Stephenson Car 
Co., 1897; with the Peckham Manufactur- 
ing Co., Kingston, N. Y., 1898-99, as 
draughtsman, superintendent of construc- 
tion of Ruggles rotary snow plows, and as- 
sistant superintendent of works, while in 
this position installing the Peckham motor 
truck on the Third Avenue street railway 
system in New York ; salesman with B. Nic- 
oll & Co., New York, 1900; with the New 
York Belting & Packing Co., designing spe- 
cial rubber machinery for the manufacture 
of golf balls, 1901 ; works manager and de- 
signer of special railway machinery with 
the European McGuire Mfg. Co., London, 
England, 1901 ; and has been in charge of the 
car and truck department of W. E. Baker 
& Co., New York, from 1902 to date. 

Mr. Smith is the son of Annesley Bur- 



A. Dii I.os Smith 

Smith, Arthur Daniel (M.E., '02), was 
born in Boonton, N. J., August 20, 1878. 
His engagements since graduation have been 
as erecting engineer in the sales department 
of the Buffalo Forge Co., builders of steam 
engines, mechanical draft fans, a fan system 
of heating, ventilating and drying, blowers 
and exhausters, drills, cutters, blacksmith 
tools, forges, etc. ; as mechanical engineer 
in the Montour rolling-mills department 
of the Reading Iron Co., Danville, Pa. ; and 
with the Scranton Railway Co., Scranton, 
Pa. He is a member of the Theta Nu 
Epsilon fraternity. 

Mr. Smith is the son of Pierson W. and 
Lillia C. Smith. He married Susan Frances 
Smith, August 27, 1902. 

Smith, Ellis Burton (M.E., '98), was born 
in Islip, N. v., May 30, 1876. He was with 
the American Sugar Refining Co., Jersey 
City, 1898-1902; and has been superintend- 
ing constructing engineer at the East St. 
Louis Works of the Pittsburg Reduction Co. 
from 1902 to date. 

Mr. Smith is the son of Alonzo E. and 
Hannah L. (Muncey) Smith. His ancestors 
were early English settlers on Long Island, 
upon " King's Grant " of land. He married 



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Marion E. Hawkins, May 22, 1901, and 
they have one child, Helen Agnes Smith. 




E. B. Smith 

Smith, Howard Wells (M.E., '91), was 
born in Elizabeth, N. J., October 29, 1870. 
He was draughtsman in the marine engineer- 
ing department of the Samuel L. Moore & 
Sons Co., Elizabeth, N. J., 1891-93, spending 
most of the time on work for the United 
States training-ship " Bancroft," supervising 
the erection of her machinery, etc.; draughts- 
man with the Third Avenue Railroad Co., 
New York, during the substitution of cable 
for horse power, 1893 ; mechanical engineer 
with the Kinsman Block System Co., New 
York, manufacturers of an appliance for 
automatically shutting the throttle-valve of a 
locomotive and applying the air brakes of a 
train, 1893-94; draughtsman with Colgate 
& Co., soap manufacturers, Jersey City, 
N. J., who were equipping their plant with 
modern machinery, 1894-95 ; engaged in pro- 
fessional work, principally designing special 
fittings for the Crystal Water Co., Stapleton, 
Staten Island, N. Y., 1895 ; was chief 
draughtsman for the Pope Tube Co., Hart- 
ford, Conn., 1895-99 (during which time 
the company built a complete mill for man- 
ufacturing seamless steel tubing, contain- 
ing twenty hydraulic draw-benches supplied 
by a 1,500-horse-power hydraulic pumping 
plant), attending, in addition to the neces- 
sary designing, to the supervision of the 



erection of buildings, installation of ma- 
chinery, etc. ; assistant mechanical engineer 
with the Shelby Steel Tube Co., Cleveland, 
O., 1899-1902, at first at Cleveland, and later 
at the company's factory at Shelby, O., his 
work consisting in designing and installing 
special furnaces, piercing and rolling mills, 
draw-benches, etc. ; mechanical engineer 
with the Macbeth Iron Co., Cleveland, O., 
building rolling-mill, tube-mill, and ore- 
handling machinery, and blowing-engines, 
1902-03; and has been mechanical engineer 
with the Standard Engineering Co., Ellwood 
City, Pa., being principally engaged in build- 
ing tube-mill machinery, from 1903 to date. 
He makes a specialty of pipe threading and 
cutting machines. He is a member of the 




H. W. Smith 

American Society of Mechanical Engineers, 
and of the Civil Engineers' Club, of Cleve- 
land. 

Mr. Smith is the son of Walter Ogden and 
Nettie Frances (Wells) Smith. He married 
Laura Brown Manning, June 17, 1896, and 
they have two children, Frederic Manning 
and Walter Kellogg Smith. 

Smith, Humphrey Russell (M.E., '88), was 
born in Chicago, 111., December 22, 1864. 
He was secretary for J. B. Smith & Co., 
paving contractors, Chicago, 111., 1888-90; 
engineer with the Hale Elevator Co., Chi- 
cago, 1890-94; chief engineer with the Wins- 



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low Bros. Elevator Co., Chicago, 1894-97; 
associate engineer with Morse, Williams, & 
Co., elevator-builders, Philadelphia, Pa., 
1897-98; engineer with the Otis Elevator 
Co., New York, 1899-1900, and at its Chi- 
cago office from 1900 to date. 

His work since graduation has included 
the designing, building, and erecting of all 
classes of hydraulic, steam, and electric ele- 
vator machinery, and he has taken out pat- 
ents for an elevator safety grip ; electric 
elevator control devices ; a hydraulic eleva- 
tor automatic stop ; an electro-magnetic ele- 
vator (solenoid) ; and an electro-magnetic 
door-operating device. 

He contributed an article on " An Electro- 
Magnetic Elevator " to the Western Elec- 
trician, which was translated and reprinted, 
with comments, in L'Electricicn, Paris, 1897. 

He is a member of the Beta Theta Pi 
fraternity, and was formerly a member of 
the Loyal Legion of the United States (2d 
degree), the Union League Club of Chicago, 
and the Western Society of Engineers. 

Mr. Smith is the son of James B. and 
Isabella Smith. He married Rossannah P. 
Oilman, June 30, 1892, and they have one 
child, Russell Oilman Smith. 

Smith, Julian C. (M.E., '91), was born in 
Maryland March i, 1869. His work has 
been largely construction connected with 
cable and electric street railways. As assist- 
ant superintendent and superintendent he has 
built roads in the cities of Baltimore, Wash- 
ington, D. C, and Seattle, Wash. For 
several years he was engaged in the general 
contracting business under the firm name of 
Morton & Smith, Baltimore. In 1900 he be- 
came connected with the Hudson Contract- 
ing Co., New York, and is now president and 
manager of the firm, in addition to which 
connection he is engaged in general con- 
tracting under the firm name of Smith & 
Robinson, New York, whose work consists 
principally of dredging and dock-, jetty-, and 
breakwater-building. He is a member of 
the Baltimore Club of Baltimore, Md., and 
of the Delta Tau Delta fraternity. 

Mr. Smith is the son of Robert H. and 
Mary Hall Smith. He married Mary Eliza- 
beth Clarke in the year 1897, and they have 
two children, Julian Clarke and Robert Don- 
nell Smith. 



Smith, Merrill Van Giesen (M.E., '96), 
was born in Montclair, N. J., September 15, 
1871 ; son of Frank A. and Adaline Van G. 
Smith. He was on the editorial staff of the 
"Railroad Gazette," New York, 1896-98; 
and Instructor in Mechanical Engineering at 
the University of Pennsylvania, 1898-99. 
For several years Mr. Smith had suffered 
from an injured knee, and in 1899 he re- 
ceived a second injury which compelled him 
to resign his position with the University of 
Pennsylvania, and for a time he was not en- 
gaged in any regular line of engineering 
work. In 1903 he was appointed Professor 
of Mechanical Engineering at the Clarkson 
Memorial School of Technology, Potsdam, 
N. Y., but resigned in the following year to 
take the Chair of Mechanical and Electrical 
Engineering at Delaware College, Newark, 
Del. While connected with the " Railroad 
Gazette " he contributed numerous articles to 
that journal. He is a member of the Tau 
Beta Pi fraternity. 

Smith, P. H. F. (M.E., '98), is a dealer 
in investment securities at the office of Lath- 
rop & Smith, New York. 

Smith, Robert Keating (M.E., '89), after 
graduation, attended Worcester Academy, 
Worcester, Mass., for the study of Latin and 
Greek, and graduated thence in 1891. He 
then entered the Tunior class at Harvard to 
study history, philosophy, and English, and 
received the degree of Bachelor of Arts in 
1893. From 1893 to 1895 he attended the 
Episcopal Theological School, Cambridge, 
Mass., and received there the degree of 
Bachelor of Divinity. He was ordained 
deacon in the Protestant Episcopal Church 
in 1895, and priest in 1896. After hold- 
ing the position of assistant minister of 
Trinity Church, Woburn, Mass., for a time, 
he went to Kansas City, Mo., to become 
rector of . the parish of Westport (St. Paul's 
Church). In 1904 he returned East and is 
now assistant minister of Grace Church, 
Newton, Mass. 

Mr. Smith is one of a number of graduates 
of the Institute who were to a great degree 
influenced to take up the particular line of 
work in which they are now engaged by in- 
herited tendencies, or by a special aptitude 
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they graduated from the Institute. The pre- 
liminary training obtained at the Institute 
was, however, an effective aid in contrib- 
uting to the success these graduates have 
achieved in their respective vocations, as 
they have themselves in numerous instances 
pointed out. Mr. Smith is interested in nat- 
ural science, particularly in zoology, and has 
spent his vacations in collecting specimens of 
Batrachia, Colubridse, and Mollusca for the 
Agassiz Museum, Harvard University, and 
for the Worcester Academy. 

Smith, Robert W. (M.E., '94), was asso- 
ciated with Mr. Geo. P. Olcott, engineer and 
contractor. Orange, N. J., at first as a sal- 
aried engineer, and later with an interest in 
the business, from 1894 to 1902. They have 
built waterworks, sewerage systems, and 
sewage-disposal plants, etc., in several towns. 
Mr. Smith has also done much private land- 
scape work, development of water supply, 
drainage, etc., and he has been associated 
with the Landscape, Drainage, & Water Sup- 
ply, Newark, N. J., from 1901 to date. He 
is a member of the American Society of Me- 
chanical Engineers. 

Smith, Samuel F. (M.E., '90), was employed 
in machine-shop work, holding positions of 
mechanic and shop foreman, 1890-93; was 
assistant engineer on a sugar estate in San 
Domingo, being engaged in erecting and re- 
pairing sugar machinery, 1893-94; was en- 
gaged in draughting on structural iron work, 
1894; with the Berlin Iron Bridge Co., East 
Berlin, Conn., employed in laying out roofs, 
buildings, and bridges, and detailing connec- 
tions ; also detailing and designing electrical 
and hand-power machinery and appliances 
for draw and lift bridges, 1894-1901 ; and 
has been designing engineer in the designing 
and estimating department of Milliken Bros., 
New York, from 1901 to date. 



a consulting engineer at Cincinnati, O., from 
1892 to date. 

His practice is mainly in building equip- 
ments, covering steam heating, elevators, 
steam and power plants, and electric equip- 
ments. He has designed and built several 
constant potential, direct-current town- 
lighting plants, using enclosed arc lamps ; 
and also compressed air-pumping plants for 
waterworks, in places having driven wells 
of considerable depth. He has contributed 
several articles to technical journals, one on 
" Direct Connected Engines and Dynamos " 
to Cassicr's Magazine. He is a member of 
the American Society of Mechanical Engi- 
neers, the Business Men's Club, the Cincin- 
nati Chamber of Commerce, and of the Beta 
Theta Pi fraternity. 

Mr. Smith is the son of Thomas G. and 
Vanelia J. Smith. He married Blanche 
Stevens, June 11, 1890, and they have four 
children, Thomas G., Jr., Richard Nelson, 
Stilman Meservy, and Blanche Virginia 
Smith. 

Smith, Wilfred C. (M.E., '79), was born 
in Peru, Indiana, October 3, 1857. He was 
in the employ of the Hocking Iron Co., Or- 
biston, O., 1879-80; with the Ohio Central 
Coal Co., Corning, O., 1880-81 ; the Newark 
Coal & Iron Co., Shawnee, O., 1881-87; and 
was vice-president and treasurer of the 
Union Iron Works Co., Newark, O., from 
the latter year until the date of his death, 
January 7, 1895. He was a member of the 
Order of Free and Accepted Masons; the 
Ancient Order of United Workmen; the 
Woodmen of the World; and of the Beta 
Theta Pi fraternity. 

Mr. Smith was the son of James H. and 
Adelia D. Smith. He married Annie Ballou, 
October 3, 1883, and they had four children, 
Adelia D., Harriett B., Laura F., and James 
H. Smith. 



Smith, Thomas Gardner (M.E., '85), was 
born in Cincinnati, March 19, 1862. He was 
in the shops of the Indianapolis division of 
the Pennsylvania Railroad, 1885-86; with 
Henry Warden, Philadelphia, 1886-87; con- 
tracting engineer in Cincinnati, O., 1887-90; 
member of the firm of C. R. Vincent & Co., 
New York, 1890-91 ; member of the Ball & 
Wood Co., New York, 1891-92; and has been 



Sofio, Edward C. (M.E., '98), was draughts- 
man with the Pintsch Compressing Co., New 
York, 1 898-1 90 1 ; was engaged with the In- 
ternational Gas Engine Co., New York, 
1901-02; and at Mariner's Harbor, Staten 
Island, N. Y., from 1902 to date. 

Sorenson, Laurids C. (M.E., '95), was re- 
corded up to 1901 as being connected with 



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the firm of Edward Sorensen's Son, mason 
and builder, New York. 

Sorge, Adolph, Jr. (M.E., "75), was born 
in Hoboken, N. J., September 28, 1857. He 
was employed at the \Vest Point Iron Foun- 
dry, N. Y., 1876-77; with Bliss & Williams, 
manufacturers of presses and dies, Brook- 
lyn, N. Y., 1877-80; machinery agent for 
Cavlev & Cavlev, London, England, 1881 ; 




Adolph Sorge, Jr. 

with the Norton Cement Works, Binnewater, 
N. Y., 1882; agent for the Campbell Press 
Co., Taunton, Mass., 1882-85 ; member of the 
firm of Randall & Sorge, A. Sorge, Jr., Suc- 
cessor, machinists, Rochester, N. Y., 1886- 
92 ; general manager of the Wood Mosaic 
Co., Rochester, N. Y., 1892-94; superin- 
tendent of the Twelfth Street works of 
Eraser & Chalmers, Chicago, 111., 1895 ; and 
has been a consulting and contracting engi- 
neer at Chicago, 111., from 1895 to date. He 
is a member of the American Society of Me- 
chanical Engineers ; the Engineers" Club of 
New York : the Western Eoundrymen's As- 
sociation ; the Western Societ}^ of Engi- 
neers ; and the Manufacturers" Club of Phila- 
delphia, Pa. In 1901 he patented an appa- 
ratus for water-purification, being principally 
applied to the Cochrane feed-water heater. 

Mr. Sorge is the son of F. A. and Kath- 
erine (Peters) Sorge. He married Hattie 
P. Orr, December i, 1886. 



Spencer, Paul (M.E., '91), was born in 
East Orange, March 19, 1866. He gradu- 
ated at Yale in 1887 with the degree of 
Bachelor of Arts. He was engaged in elec- 
tric railway construction with the Field En- 
gineering Co., New York, 1891-94; was in 
the engineering department of the Stanley 
Electric & Manufacturing Co., Pittsfield, 
Mass., 1895-97; engineer at the New York 
office of the same company, 1897 ; general 
superintendent of the People's Light & 
Power Co., Newark, N. J., 1897-1900; and 
has been with the United Gas Improvement 
Co., Philadelphia, from 1900 to date. He is 
an associate member of the American Insti- 
tute of Electrical Engineers, and a member 
of the University Club of New York; the 
Germantown Cricket Club, of Philadelphia; 
and of the Delta Kappa Epsilon fraternity. 

JNIr. Spencer is the son of George Gilman 
and Caroline Arnold Spencer. He married 
Frances Margaret Durbin, April 25, 1894, 
and three children have been born to them, 
Frederick Gilman, Frances Margaret, and 
Carol Spencer. The latter is deceased. 

Spies, Albert (M.E., "81), became attached 
to the editorial staff of The Iron Age, of 
New York, in October, 1881, since which 
time his contributions to engineering liter- 
ature have been many and varied. From 
1883 to 1886, besides retaining his connec- 
tion with TJie Iron Age, he was editor of 
Mechanics, a leading engineering weekly. 
In 1890 he became the managing editor of 
The Engineering Record, but late in 1891 
exchanged editorial duties for active pro- 
fessional work as consulting mechanical en- 
gineer. In this capacity, besides executing 
miscellaneous expert steam work, he super- 
vised the installation of the steam steering 
machinery on nearly all the Hudson River 
ferryboats of the Erie Railroad, and on 
some of those of the Central Railroad of New 
Jersey. Much of his time also was devoted 
to the designing of plants and machinery for 
prominent South American silver-mining 
companies. In June, 1893, Mr. Spies again 
entered the literary field as editor of Cas- 
sier's Magazine, a new publication of a novel 
kind, designed to present engineering sub- 
jects in a more picturesque and interesting 
manner than had ever before been attempted, 
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signally successful, having raised the maga- 
zine to the front rank of engineering periodi- 
cals. Aside from editorial work Mr. Spies 
has written many articles, prominent among 
them a series in Cassier's Magasinc, entitled 
" Modern Gas and Oil Engines," which 
at the time gave what was probably the first 
and most comprehensive account of the dif- 
ferent kinds of such engines available. 
Among other articles written by him are the 
following : 

" Heating Feed Water with Live Steam," 
Cassier's Magazine, III ; " Oil Steam En- 
gines," Ibid-, V ; " Wasteful Use of Exhaust 
Steam," Ibid., V; "Ascending Pike's Peak 
by Rail," Ibid., VI ; " The First Iron Casting 
in America," Ibid., VII ; " Some American 
Vertical Boilers," Ibid., IX. 

Beginning with 1904 he added to his work 
the editorial management of The Electrical 
Age, giving to this publication at once a 
new and much enlarged form. With the 
incorporation of the Gassier Magazine Go. 
as publishers of both Cassier's Magazine and 
The Electrical Age, in the early summer of 
1904, he was elected vice-president and treas- 
urer of the company and was made managing 
director. 

Under Mr. Spies's editorial supervision 
also were published the interesting work on 
" The Life and Inventions of Thomas A. 
Edison," and the volume entitled " The Har- 
nessing of Niagara." Mr. Spies's thesis, on 
" Gas Engines," was published in the Ameri- 
can Gas Light Journal, 1881. He is a mem- 
ber of the American Society of Mechanical 
Engineers and of the American Institute of 
Mining Engineers. 

Stahl, Albert William (M.E., 'y6), was 
born in New York city May 12, 1856. On 
graduation at Stevens he entered the United 
States Naval Academy as cadet engineer, 
and graduated in 1880 at the head of his 
class. 

From 1880 to 1883 he served as engineer 
officer on the U.S.S. " Despatch," " Galena," 
" Quinnebaug," " Lancaster," and " Nipsic," 
principally on the European station. On his 
return to the United States in 1883 he was 
promoted to assistant engineer, and was on 
duty at the Bureau of Steam Engineering of 
the Navy Department for about six months. 

He was then transferred to Purdue Uni- 



versity, La Fayette, Ind., where he filled the 
Chair of Mechanical Engineering, 1883-87. 
In the latter year he resigned his commis- 
sion as assistant engineer, and was at once 




A. W. Stahl, U.S.N. 

appointed assistant naval constructor, and 
assigned to special duty until 1889, during 
part of which time he instructed in naval ar- 
chitecture at the Naval Academy. 

In 1889 he was transferred to the Union 
Iron Works, San Francisco, Gal., as assist- 
ant inspector of construction of the naval 
vessels building at those works. He was also 
appointed a member of the Naval Inspection 
Board for the Pacific Goast. In 1892 he was 
promoted to naval constructor with the rank 
of lieutenant. From 1892 to 1894 he super- 
intended the construction of the U.S.S. " San 
Francisco," " Monterey," " Olympia " (later 
Admiral Dewey's flagship at Manila), and 
the famous " Oregon," all built at the Union 
Iron Works. 

He was a member of the Advisory Goun- 
cil of the Engineering Gongress of the 
World's Golumbian Exposition at Ghicago. 

During 1894 and 1895 he was engaged as 
assistant to the Ghief Gonstructor at the Navy 
Department, Washington, D. G., his special 
work being the designing of turrets for heavy 
guns. He introduced oval balanced turrets 
in the U. S. Navy, and designed such turrets 
for the U.S.S. " Iowa," " Kentucky," and 
" Kearsarge." He was president of the 



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Board on Method of Fitting Armor to 
Naval Vessels, whose recommendations have 
been adopted as the standard in the navy. 

From 1895 to 1901 he was in charge of the 
Department of Construction and Repair at 
the Navy Yard, Norfolk, Va. While at that 
yard Mr. Stahl had a very active and im- 
portant part in the preparation of the navy 
for the war with Spain. During the short 
period available the " Newark " was com- 
pletely overhauled and modernized (among 
other items, eight electric ammunition-hoists 
were designed, constructed, and successfully 
installed) ; six revenue cutters (" Hamil- 
ton," " Manning," " Windom," " Woodbury," 
"Morrill," and "Hudson") and three light- 
house-tenders ("Armeria," "Maple," and 
" Mayflower") were transformed into auxil- 
iary war vessels by installing batteries, fitting 
ammunition-rooms, protecting the more vul- 
nerable parts with light armor, etc. ; a num- 
ber of colliers, including the famous " Merri- 
mac," were provided with batteries and with 
means for handling large quantities of coal ; 
the " Iris " was fitted out as a distilling-ship 
with tanks holding about 1,000 tons; the 
collier " Cassius " was transformed into the 
arni}^ transport " Sumner." In addition, 
nnich work was done that cannot be briefly 
classified, — as many as thirty vessels under- 
going alterations at one time. Everything 
was designed and executed under Mr. Stahl's 
personal direction. 

In 1899 he was promoted to naval con- 
structor with the rank of commander. In 
May, 1 90 1, he was transferred from the Nor- 
folk Navy Yard to the works of the New- 
port News Shipbuilding & Dry Dock Co., 
Newport News, Va., as superintending con- 
structor of the naval vessels there building. 
In this position he superintended the com- 
pletion of the " Illinois," the " Arkansas," 
and the "Missouri." At present (1904) he 
is, at the same works, superintending the 
construction of the following naval vessels: 
" West Virginia " and " Maryland," 14,000- 
ton armored cruisers; "Charleston," 10,000- 
ton protected cruiser; "Virginia," 15,000-ton 
battle-ship ; " Louisiana," and " Minnesota," 
'16,000-ton battle-ships. 

In 1903 he was promoted to naval con- 
structor with the rank of captain. 

In 1896 he patented, jointly with R. Gate- 
wood, a novel form of wave motor, consist- 



ing of a vane so suspended as to follow the 
motions of the individual particles of water 
in each wave. 

In 1884 he pubhshed, jointly with A. T. 
Woods, a text-book on " Elementary Mech- 
anism," now in its tenth edition. 

He is the author of papers on " The Utili- 
zation of the Power of Ocean Waves," pre- 
sented to a meeting of the American Society 
of Mechanical Engineers ; " Hydraulic Power 
for Warships " and " Experimental Test of 
Target Representing Armored Side of U.S.S. 
' Iowa,' " presented to a meeting of the Amer- 
ican Society of Naval Architects and Marine 
Engineers ; " The Spanish War as Viewed 
from a Navy Yard/' Stevens Institute Indi- 
cator, April, 1899. His graduating thesis, 
on " The Transmission of Power by Wire 
Ropes," was published by the D. Van Nos- 
trand Co., 1876, and republished in 1887. 

He is a member of the Institution of Naval 
Architects of England ; the American Society 
of Naval Architects and Marine Engineers; 
the United States Naval Institute; the Army 
and Navy Club, Washington, D. C. ; the 
Cosmos Club, San Francisco ; and the Delta 
Tau Delta fraternity. 

He is the son of Jacob and Henriette 
(Gerecke) Stahl. He married Blanche Vin- 
ton, December 18, 1884, and they have one 
child, David Vinton Stahl. 

Stanford, George Chauncey (M.E., '00), was 
born in Elizabeth, N. J., October 13, 1878. 
He was employed at the Wright Steam En- 
gine Works, Newburg, N. Y., 1900; with 
the J. E. Ogden Co., New York, 1901 ; rod- 
man in the Pennsylvania Railroad construc- 
tion department, 1901 ; with the Newburg 
Ice Machine & Engine Co., Newburg, 
N. Y., 1901-02; transit-man in the construc- 
tion department of the Lehigh Valley Rail- 
road, Sayre, Pa., 1902-03 ; and has been with 
M. W. Kellogg & Co., New York, since 1903. 

Mr. Stanford is the son of Theodore F. 
and Lizzie Stanford. He married May 
Faulks Wardell, June 26, 1902. 

Stanley, Robert Crooks (M.E., '99), took 
a postgraduate course of study at the Colum- 
bia School of Mines, New York, and received 
the degree of Engineer of Mines in June, 
1901. He was metallurgist with the S. S. 
White Mfg. Co., 1901-02, principally em- 



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ployed in experimental and research work 
on metals of the platinum group; assistant 




R. C. Stanley 

superintendent of the American Nickel 
Works, at the Camden plant of the Interna- 
tional Nickel Co., 1902-03 ; did several 
months' field-work in mining engineering in 
the West; superintendent of the American 
Nickel Works, Camden, N. J., 1903-04; and 
is now assistant superintendent of the Ox- 
ford Copper Co., New Brighton, N. Y. He 
is a member of the American Institute of 
Mining Engineers, and of the Beta Theta Pi, 
Tau Beta Pi, and Theta Nu Epsilon frater- 
nities. 

Starr, Howard White (M.E., '00), was 
born in Brooklyn, N. Y., February 16, 1872. 
He lived in France and Germany for eight 
years, graduated at Yale in 1895, and trav- 
elled abroad, 1900-01. He was assistant to 
the vice-president and general manager of 
the Schenectady Railway Co., Schenectady, 
N. Y., 1901-02; assistant to the chief engi- 
neer of the same road 1902-03 ; and is now 
engineer of the Mohawk Gas Co., Schenec- 
tady, N. Y. He is a member of the Yale, 
Union League, and Atlantic Yacht clubs. 

Mr. Starr is the son of Theodore B. and 
Caroline ,M. Starr, and is descended from 
Dr. Comfort Starr, who came from Kent, 
England, in 1632, and is said to have been 
the first doctor to arrive in New England. 



He married Henriette D. Danforth, April 18, 
1900, and they have one child, Theodore 
Donald Starr. 

Stearns, J. Herbert (M.E., '96), was with 
the United States Seamless Tube Works 
(department of National Tube Works Co.), 
McKeesport, Pa., 1896-1901. No record is 
available since the latter date. 

Stehlin, Joseph (M.E., '98), was born in 
New York city August 2, 1876; son of 
Charles Vincent and Katherine Stehlin. He 
was with P. Pryibil, New York, 1898; with 
the Nestle Food Co., Fulton, N. Y., 1899; 
assistant mechanical engineer in the engi- 
neering department of the New York Central 
& Hudson River Railroad Co., New York 
1900-03 ; and has been mechanical engineer 




Joseph Stehlin 

in the same employ since 1903. He is an 
associate member of the American Society 
of Mechanical Engineers. 

Steinbrugge, E., Jr. (M.E., '97), is the 
sole active partner of the firm of Lyon & 
Co., a foreign commission house, New York ; 
also of the firm of Lyon, Dupuy, & Co., Bos- 
ton. 

Stephens, John R. (M.E., '78), was em- 
ployed on the United States Coast Survey, 
at San Francisco, Cal., 1879; with the Ore- 



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gon Railway & Navigation Co., Portland, 
Ore., and The Dalles, 1880-89; with Loring 
& Brown, Wardner, Idaho, 1889-92; was as- 
sistant engineer with the Northern Pacific 
Railroad, Tacoma, Wash., 1892-93 ; with 
Barnato Bros., Johannesburg, South Africa, 
1894-96; located at Spokane, Wash., and 
later at Victoria, B. C, 1898-1900; in the 
City of Mexico, Mex., 1900-02; and has 
been in the engineering department of the 
Grand Trunk Railway System, Montreal, 
Canada, from 1902 to date. 

Stephens, Thomas Concklin (M.E., '00), 
was born in Pelham Manor, N. Y., January 
29, 1878; son of Henry Clay and Anna 
Concklin Stephens. He was in the engineer- 
ing department of the United Electric Co. 
of New Jersey, Newark, N. J., 1900-02 ; and 
was the assistant engineer with the Storey 
Motor & Electric Co., of Harrison, N. J., 
1902-03. He is a member of the Tau Beta 
Pi and Phi Sigma Kappa fraternities. 

Stern, Alfred (M.E., '82), was with Stern 
& Rose, New York, 1883-85; resident at- 
torney and manager for Chas. Stern, Los 
Angeles, Cal., 1885-90, and then in New 
York, 1890-94; and is now president of the 
Charles Stern's Sons Co., Inc., Los Angeles, 
Cal. 



Stevens, Ralph Herbert (M.E., '98), was 
born in New York city May 2, 1875 ; son of 
Plowdon and Laura (McEwen) Stevens. 
After graduation he was employed with the 
McKay Shoe Machinery Co., Winchester, 




R. H. Stevens 

Mass., 1898-99; with the Otis Elevator Co., 
Yonkers, N. Y., 1899-1901 ; and has been 
with the Ruggles-Coles Engineering Co., 
New York, from 1901 to date. 



Stevens, Francis Bowes, Jr. (M.E., '90), was 
born in Hoboken, N. J., July i, 1868. He 
was in the testing laboratory of Clapp & 
Hunt, Pittsburg, Pa., 1890-91 ; at the H. R. 
Worthington Hydraulic Works, Brooklyn, 
N. Y., 1891-92; at the Passaic Rolling Mills, 
Paterson, N. J., 1892-95; with the Fidelity & 
Casualty Co., New York, 1895-1900; secre- 
tary of the Grafton Mica Co., New York, 
1900-01 ; and has been a member of the firm 
of G. B. Salisbury & Co., bankers and 
brokers. New York, from 1901 to date. 

Mr. Stevens is the son of Francis Bowes 
and Elizabeth C. (Harris) Stevens. He 
married Adele Horwitz, December 6, 1898. 

Stevens, Frederick R. (M.E., 'oo), was 
Instructor during the Supplementary Term 
at Stevens Institute, 1900; and has been in 
the erection-shop of the Brooks Locomotive 
Works, Dunkirk, N. Y., since 1900. He now 
occupies the position of supervisor. 



Stevens, William N. (M.E., '85), was 
employed at the H. R. Worthington Hy- 
draulic Works, Brooklyn, N. Y., 1885-87; 
in the office of the engineer of bridges and 
buildings of the New York, Lake Erie, & 
Western Railroad, New York, 1887-91 ; with 
Algee, Stevens, & Co., manufacturers' agents 
for railway supplies, etc., Atlanta, Ga., 
1891-94; general eastern agent of the Con- 
solidated Car Heating Co., Boston, Mass., 
1895-97; with the Edison Illuminating Co., 
New York, 1898-1900; assistant mechanical 
engineer on design of Manhattan Railway 
power house, 1900-02; assistant mechanical 
engineer of the Rapid Transit Subway Con- 
struction Co., New York, 1902-04; and is 
now with the J. G. White Co., New York. 

He obtained a patent in 1889 for a device 
for compensating for the expansion and con- 
traction of signal wires for railroad block 
signals. Patents were issued jointly to Mr. 
Stevens and Mr. John Van Vleck, March 



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573 



5, 1900, on apparatus for methods for 
establishing a flow of current through the 
refractory material of an electrolytic in- 
candescent lamp, which material is a non- 
conductor at normal temperature, but upon 
being heated to a certain point becomes a 
conductor, and thus is rendered incandescent 
by the passage of the current. 

Mr. Stevens is a junior member of the 
American Society of Mechanical Engineers. 

Steward, Joseph E. (M.E., '83), was em- 
ployed on the Chicago, St. Louis, & Pitts- 
burg Division of the Pennsylvania Railroad, 
Logansport, Lid., 1883-86; was draughtsman 
with the Pittsburg, Columbus, & St. Louis 
Railroad, Dennison, O., 1887-88; assistant 
master mechanic with the Pittsburg, Fort 
Wayne, & Chicago Railroad, Fort Wayne, 
Ind., 1889-92; and has been assistant engi- 
neer of signals with the Pittsburg, Cincin- 
nati, Chicago, & St. Louis Railroad, Pitts- 
burg, Pa., 1893 to date. 

Stillman, Thomas B. (Ph.D., '83), Pro- 
fessor of Engineering Chemistry at Stevens 
Institute of Technology. For biography, see 
page 254. 

Strong, William Edward Schenck (M.E.,'92), 
was born in Fishkill-on-Hudson, N. Y., July 
25, 1869. He was Listructor during the Sup- 
plementary Term at Stevens Listitute, 1892; 
with R. W. Hildreth & Co., as inspector of 
bridges at the Pencoyd Iron Works and the 
Edge Moor Bridge Works, and later on 
locomotive parts at the Baldwin Locomotive 
Works, 1892-93 ; shop superintendent with 
the American Paper Goods Co., Kensington, 
Conn., 1893-94, during which period he in- 
stalled the rope transmission system, from 
the turbine furnishing the power, to the mill ; 
and was assistant engineer with the Pneu- 
matic Torpedo & Construction Co., New 
York, which was furnishing the United 
States government with a battery of dyna- 
mite guns, 1894-95. He had general super- 
vision for the company at the West Point 
Foundry, Cold Spring, N. Y., and later had 
charge of the emplacement work at Sandy 
Hook. He was agent in New York State for 
the Columbian Regenerative Furnace Co., 
Philadelphia, 1895; with the Michigan-Pen- 
insular Car Co., Detroit, Mich., 1895-99, 



first as draughtsman, and then as mechanical 
engineer of the company, and superintendent 
of the Michigan car department; was en- 
gaged upon special work in the shops of the 
Pratt & Whitney Co., Hartford, Conn., 1899- 
1900; and has been located with the Ameri- 
can Radiator Co., Chicago, 111., from 1901 to 
date, being- vice-chairman of the operating 
board, having charge of the eight plants in 
the United States. He has recently been 
made manager of the engineering depart- 
ment, covering all engineering work and 




W. E. S. Strong 

improvements in methods and plant manage- 
ment for the eight American plants and two 
European plants. He is a member of the 
American Society of Civil Engineers ; the 
University Club of Detroit, and of the Chi 
Phi fraternity. 

Mr. Strong is the son of Benjamin and 
Adeline (Schenck) Strong. The Strong 
family are among the early Puritan settlers in 
New England. He married Lillian G. Bis- 
sell, April 17, 1900. 

Stueck, George Herman (M.E., '88), was 
born in New York city February 24, 1867. 
He was with the Korting Gas Engine Co., 
1888-90; was employed in testing under- 
ground circuits for the Brush Electric Light 
Co., New York, 1890; and has been engaged 
in commercial pursuits from 1890 to date. 
Mr. Stueck is the son of Henry and Bar- 



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bara Stueck. He married Alicia Durell, 
April 9, 1891, and they have one child, David 
Durell Stneck. 




G. H. SruECK 

Summerhayes, Henry Roswell (M.E., '96), 
was born at Fort Apache, Ariz., January 27, 
1875. He took the student course with the 
General Electric Co., at Schenectady, N. Y., 
and at Lynn, Mass., 1896-97 ; was engaged 
in commercial work in the same company's 
foreign department 1897-98; and has been 
assistant engineer in its foreign engineering 
department, in charge of power, mining, and 
lighting work, from 1899 to date. The most 
important work he has handled has been the 
Cauvery power-transmission plant in the 
State Mysore, India, — a 93-mile, 6,000 horse- 
power, 30,000-volt transmission. He is a 
member of the Theta Xi fraternity. 

Mr. Summerhayes is the son of Major 
J. W. Summerhayes, U. S. A., and Martha 
(Dunham) Summerhayes. He married 
Marion F. Stewart, June 5, 1900, and they 
have one child, Marion R. Summerhayes. 

Summers, George Frederic (M.E., '91), 
was born in Philadelphia, Pa., March 6, 
1870. He has been in the employ of the 
•United Gas Improvement Co., Philadelphia, 
Pa. ; the Hackensack Gas & Electric Co., 
Hackensack, N. J. ; the Schenectady Locomo- 
tive Works, Schenectady, N. Y. ; the Con- 
stancia Sugar Co., Cienfuegos, Cuba; the 



United States Arsenal, Rock Island, 111. ; and 
is now mechanical engineer at Davenport, la. 

Suydam, Henry (M.E., '78), was employed 
at the Meadows shops, near Jersey City, and 
for a short time at the Altoona shops of the 
Pennsylvania Railroad Co. ; was draughts- 
man with W. H. H. Bowers, contractor for 
the Moulton, Alice, and other mines ; with 
the Denver & Rio Grande Railroad, in 
charge of construction work, buildings, etc., 
at the Salt Lake City terminus, 1882-84; and 
with P. Ballantine & Sons, brewers, Newark, 
N. J., 1884-90, engaged in superintending 
the construction of buildings, malt-houses, 
grain-elevators, etc., and in the erection of 
an ice-plant of which he had entire charge 
when it was put in operation. He died of 
typhoid fever, November 25, 1890. 




Generating-Station of the Power Transmis- 
sion Plant at Cauvery, India 
H. R. Summerhayes 

Taff, Frederick Nishwitz (M.E., '95), was 
born in Brooklyn, N. Y., November 20, 1873 ; 
son of Daniel W. and Wilhelmina N. Taff. 
He was engaged on stone road work as su- 
perintendent of the plant of the Morris 



THE ALUMNI 



575 



County Crushed Stone Co., Millington, N. J., 
then in general contracting work, 1895-98; 
served with the First United States Vohm- 
teer Engineers as a non-commissioned officer 
in Porto Rico, 1898 ; was superintendent of 
the agricuhural implement works of F. 
Nishwitz at MilHngton, N. J., 1899-1900; 
and has been secretary and treasurer of the 
Nishwitz Manufacturing Co., Millington, 
N. J., and vice-president of the Morris County 
Crushed Stone Co., Morristown, N. J., from 
1900 to date. 

Takeo, Toshisuke (M.E., '98), was em- 
ployed in the machine-shop and draughting- 
room of W. D. Forbes & Co., Hoboken, N. J., 
1898-1900; in the Providence Engineering 
Works, Providence, R. I., 1900-02 ; and is 
now chief engineer of the Kobukuro Iron 
Works, Kobukuro, Japan. 

Tatham, Edwin (M.E., '81), is one of the 
firm of Tatham & Brothers, New York and 
Philadelphia, manufacturers of shot, lead 
pipe, sheet lead, etc. 

Taylor, Frederick W. (M.E., '83), was 
employed at the Midvale Steel Co., Nice- 
town, Philadelphia, Pa., in the capacities of 
laborer, machinist, gang boss, foreman of 
machine shop, master mechanic, and chief 
draughtsman, 1878-84, and as chief engineer 
of the company, 1884-90; general manager 
of the Manufacturing Investment Co., New- 
York, 1890-93; and has been consulting 
engineer at Germantown, Pa., reorganizing 
manufacturing establishments in various 
parts of the country, from 1893 to date. 

He has presented papers before the Amer- 
ican Society of Mechanical Engineers on 
" Relative Values of Fuel Gases," " Notes on 
Belting," " A Piece-Rate System," and 
" Shop Management," and, in conjunction 
with Mr. Maunsel White, one on " Colors of 
Heated Steel Corresponding to Different 
Degrees of Temperature," in December, 
1899. In the fall of 1904 a book on " Con- 
crete, Plain and Reinforced," was issued 
jointly by Mr. Taylor and Mr. S. E. Thomp- 
son. He has taken out about fifty patents, 
the most notable being those for the " Tay- 
lor-White " process of treating tool steels, 
for which the Elliot Cresson medal was 
awarded by the Franklin Institute and a gold 



medal by the Universal Exposition in Paris, 
1900. He is a member of the American So- 




F. W. Taylor 

ciety of Mechanical Engineers and of the 
American Institute of Mining Engineers. 

Taylor, Horace Greeley (M.E., '99), was 
born in Trenton, N. J., February 23, 1876. 
He has been in the London office of Hum- 




H. G. Taylor 

phreys & Glasgow, gas engineers and con- 
tractors, from 1899 to date. In 1900 Mr. 



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Taylor had charge of the erection and opera- 
tion of a water-gas plant at Dunedin, N. Z., 
and in 1901-02 he had charge of the erection 
and operation of a water-gas plant at Rom- 
ford, Essex, England. He is an associate 
member of the American Gas Light Associa- 
tion. 

Taylor, Russell Eugene (M.E., '94), was 
born in New York city July 7, 1869; son 
of Henry E. and Henrietta Walker Tay- 
lor. He assisted in tests of two locomotives 
belonging to the Jersey Central Railroad, 
which had been at the World's Fair as rep- 
resenting the modern simple and compound 
types of engines, 1894; was mechanical en- 
gineer in the Norwood (Mass.) shops of the 
New England Railroad, 1894-97; in the 
mechanical engineering department of the 
Erie Railroad, Susquehanna, Pa., engaged in 
designing and making tests, 1897-99, and 
engineer of tests for this road, 1899-1900. 
During the latter year he resigned to assist 
in his father's business in New York, where 
he has since been engaged, holding the posi- 
tion of vice-president. 

He has taken out a patent for a " Self Re- 
taining Air Hoist Valve " and has these 
valves installed in several railroad shops. 
His graduating thesis, prepared jointly with 
Messrs. E. D. Mathey and C. C. Kenyon, on 
" A Comparative Test of a Compound Lo- 
comotive and a Simple Locomotive, on the 
Central Railroad of New Jersey," was pub- 
lished in the Stevens Indicator, XH. 

Taylor, Thomas, Jr. (M.E., '88), was born 
in Columbia, S. C, October 2, 1866. He was 
employed in a cotton-oil mill at Columbia, 
1888; and was engaged in selling and erect- 
ing oil mills, 1888-90. Upon completing the 
Orangeburg Mill, Orangeburg, S. C, in 1890, 
he undertook its management until 1897. He 
then purchased an oil mill at Florence, S. C, 
and ran it for three years; and in 1901, 
with his brother, he purchased an oil mill at 
Gainesville, Ga., and another at Hogans- 
ville, Ga., and also erected one at Columbia, 
S. C, all of which they are operating still. 
He is a member of the Chi Phi fraternity. 

Mr. Taylor is the son of Dr. B. W. and 
Anna Heyward Taylor. The Taylors went 
to South Carolina from Virginia in 1740, 
and the Heywards arrived from England in 



1690. He married Susan Evelyn Ames, 
December 4, 1901, and they have one child, 
Thomas Taylor 3d. 




T. Taylor, Jr. 

Taylor, William Henry, Jr. (M.E., '02), 
was born in Ashley, Luzerne County, Pa., 
February 3, 1880 ; son of William Henry and 
Elizabeth Taylor. After graduation he was 
engaged for one year with the Link-Belt En- 
gineering Co., Philadelphia, Pa., designing 
and erecting elevating and conveying ma- 
chinery. Fie has since been employed by the 
United Gas Improvement Co., Philadelphia, 
and is now in the Construction Division. 
He is a member of the Engineers' Club of 
Philadelphia, and of the Chi Phi fraternity. 

Terry, Thomas Lee (M.E., '97), was born 
in Englewood, N. J., January 31, 1876; son 
of William Owen, and Louise Van d'er Voort 
Terry. On his father's side he is descended 
from early English settlers of Long Island ; 
on his mother's side from among the first 
Dutch settlers of New York. He took a 
special course in chemical work under the 
direction of Dr. Stillman in the private lab- 
oratory of the latter at the Institute, 1897, 
and was chemist with the Glens Falls Port- 
land Cement Co., Glens Falls, N. Y., 1897- 
98. In this position he had sole charge of 
the chemical work of the company, which in- 
cluded calcimeter tests on the mixture of 
clay and limestone used, and complete analy 



THE ALUMNI 



577 



sis of the finished product twice a week, 
with occasional analysis of the raw material. 
He took a special course of study in Dr. 
Stillman's laboratory in 1898, and was In- 
structor during- the Supplementary Term at 
Stevens Institute in the same year. 




T. L. Terry 

In 1899 ^^ became chemist and assayer 
with the William F. Renziehausen Co., gold 
and silver refiners, Newark, N. J., and in 
December of that year took a financial inter- 
est in the company and was made its vice- 
president. The plant has since been en- 
larged and equipped to handle a growing 
volume of business, and a rolling-plant for 
sterling silver and other alloys added, rolling 
metals (principally sterling silver) up to 18 
inches in width. The mechanical as well as 
the chemical work of the company has fallen 
largely upon Mr. Terry, who has also done 
considerable work of an original character 
on the chemical and physical properties of 
many alloys for special purposes. He is a 
member of the Englewood Club and of the 
New York Reform Club. 

Theberath, Theodore Ernest (M.E., '88), 
was born in Newark, N. J., November 22, 
1863. He was Assistant Instructor in Ex- 
perimental Mechanics at Stevens Institute, 
1888; draughtsman with the United ' States 
Electric Lighting Co., Newark, N. J.> 1888- 
89, and on the absorption of the company 



by the Westinghouse Electric & Manufactur- 
ing Co., in the latter year, was placed in 
charge of the testing department of the New- 
ark factory and of all special work of the 
outside construction department, a position 
he held until 1891. Some of this special 
work was the installation, in June, 1890, of 
the first two large generators for the Pitts- 
burg Reduction Co., of Pittsburg, for the 
reduction of aluminum, the beginning of the 
great plant now operated at Niagara Falls 
by this company. In 1890 he was engaged 
in the installation of several Westinghouse 
plants to operate coal-cutting machinery in 
the soft-coal mines of West Virginia, and in 
1891 he installed an electrical apparatus for 
the concentration of magnetic iron ore at the 
mill of the New Jersey Magnetic Concen- 
trating Co., located in the Adirondack 
Mountains, in New York State. He was 
chief electrician at the Newark branch of the 
Westinghouse Co., 1891-92; special sales 
agent for Stanley transformers with the An- 
sonia Electric Co., of Chicago, 1892-93; in 
charge of the standardizing department of 
the Weston Electrical Instrument Co., 1893- 
94; engineer and salesman in the New York 
office of the Stanley Electric Manufacturing 




T. E. Theberath 

Co., 1894-96; and engineer in the Pacific 
Coast agency of the Stanley Co., at San 
Francisco, 1896-99. 

Mr. Theberath came prominently before 



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THE STEVENS INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY 



the electric transmission interests of the 
Pacific Coast through his electrical engineer- 
ing services in the construction of the trans- 
mission plant of the Blue Lakes Water Co., 
and as electrical engineer, later, for the 
Yuba Power Co.'s transmission to Marys- 
ville. The latter installation consisted of 
three 500-horse-power generators driven by 
impulse wheels under a 300-foot head. The 
transmission was 21 miles at 16,000 volts. 
Tn March, 1899, the Yuba Electric Power 
Co. was organized and absorbed the Yuba 
Power Co. In May of the same year actual 
work was commenced on the construction of 
a 60-mile line for 40,000 volts to Sacramen- 
to, and the construction of a large power 
house on the North Yuba River, now known 
as the Colgate Power House of the Bay 
Counties Power Co., the capacity of the plant 
being 15,000 horse-power furnished by seven 
generators driven by impulse wheels under 
700 feet head. Mr. Theberath was chief en- 




Coi.GATE Power House, Vuba River, Ca 
T. E. Theberath 

gineer of the Bay Counties Co. from 1899 for 
several years. He was then with the Califor- 
nia Gas & Electric Corporation, San Fran- 
cisco, Cal., for whom he constructed several 
power houses, one of 10,000 and another of 
20,000 horse-power capacity. Much of his 
time was spent in the mountains in connec- 
tion with the development and construction 
of these plants. After a brief illness Mr. 
Theberath died at his home in San Fran- 
cisco, March 29, 1904. 

Mr. Theberath read a paper on " Light- 



ning on Transmission Lines " before the 
Sacramento convention of the Pacific Coast 
Electric Transmission Association, which 
was published in the Journal of Electricity, 
and was extracted by the Electrical World 
and the London Engineer, December 31, 
1897, ^'"id ^Iso a paper on " Telephone Serv- 
ice on Power Transmission Lines " before 
the same Association. He was a member of 
the American Institute of Electrical Engi- 
neers ; of the Pacific Coast Transmission 
Association; and of the Masonic Order. 

Mr. Theberath was the son of Charles M. 
and Mary A. Theberath. He married, first, 
Erminie A. Pier, November 27, 1889, by 
whom he had one child, Erminie Theodora ; 
and second, Annie M. Thompson, July 18 
1901. 

Thomas, Benjamin Franklin (Ph.D., '80), 
was born in Palmyra", Portage County, O., 
October 14, 1850. He was Professor of Phys- 
ics at the Missouri State Uni- 
versity, Columbia, Mo., 1880- 
85 ; and has filled a like position 
at the Ohio State University, 
Columbus, O., from 1885 to 
date. He is a Fellow of the 
American Association for the 
Advancement of Science ; a 
member of the American Insti- 
tute of Electrical Engineers; 
of the American Physical So- 
ciety ; and of the Sigma Xi 
fraternity. He served on the 
Jury of Awards at the Chi- 
cago Exposition of Railway 
Appliances; on the Board of 
Examiners of the Electrical 
Exposition, Philadelphia, 1884; 
and on the Jury of Awards in 
the Department of Electricity 
at the World's Fair, Chicago, 1893. 

Mr. Thomas is the son. of David D. and 
Eleanor Evans Thomas, both natives of 
Wales. He married Caroline C. Parsons. 
April II, 1881, and they have had three 
children, Phillips, Laura Parsons, and Mor- - 
ton Thomas (the latter deceased). 

Thomas, Charles Walter (M.E., '84), was 
born in New York city November 20, 1864. 
He was assistant superintendent with the 
Joseph Dixon Crucible Co., Jersey City, 



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579 



N. J., 1884-86; assistant engineer with the 
Suburban Rapid Transit Co., New York, 
1886-87; in the employ of the Hyatt Pure 
Water Co., Newark, N. J., 1887-88; was a 
member of the firm of C. W. Thomas & Co., 
mechanical engineers, New York, 1889; with 
the Rapid Transit Cable Co., New York, 
1889-93; mechanical engineer, New York, 
1893-96; Instructor in Drawing at the Col- 
lege of the City of New York, 1896-1901 ; 
Instructor in Chemistry at the New York 
Evening High School 1 898-1 901 ; has been 
secretary of the Rubel Paper Lithographing 
Co., Nutley, N. J., from 1901 to date, and is 
at present designing new automatic printing" 
and paper-making machinery and sizing ma- 
terials for paper-makers' use. 

During the years 1894-96 he was also en- 
gaged evenings as Instructor in Mechanical 
Drawing at the Newark Technical School, 
Newark, N. J., and in Drake's College, Jer- 
sey City. During 1896-97 he was also 
Instructor in Carpentry and Wood-Turning 
at the Institution for the Improved Instruc- 
tion of Deaf Mutes, New York, and the same 
year conducted tests of fireproof floors and 
materials for Constable Bros. 

He has patented a noiseless sheave for 
cable roads, has taken out five patents for 
electric railways, and is part inventor of a 
universal mill. He has also done considera- 
ble work in designing presses for printing 
labels, newspapers, etc., and automatic hy- 
draulic presses, and in the development of 
patents. He is the author, jointly with Prof. 
William Fox, of a series of books on me- 
chanical drawing; has written an article for 
" Paper and Pulp" (London, Eng.) on tech- 
nical education applied , to paper-making, 
and is at present engaged on a work on 
paper-making. He is a member of the Amer- 
ican Society of Mechanical Engineers.; the 
Electro-Chemical Society; and of the Chi 
Psi fraternity. 

Mr. Thomas is the son of John C. and 
Mary A. E. (Godfrey) Thomas, of English 
descent on his father's side. He married 
Juliette L. Conord in January, 1893. 

Thomas, -William W. (M.E., '86), was in 
the employ of Liddell & Co., manufacturers 
of machinery, Charlotte, N. C, 1886-91 ; 
with W. H. Gibbes, Jr., & Co., Columbus, 
S. C, 1891-94; and practised as a mechanical 



and hydraulic engineer at Chicago, 111.. 
1894-95. For several years past Mr. Thomas 
has been located at Morristown, N. J. 

Thompson, Edward Pruden (M.E., '78), 
was born in Elizabeth, N. J., August 25, 
1856. He was engaged in teaching experi- 
mental chemistry and physics, algebra, ge- 




E. P. Thompson 

ometry, trigonometry, and the English lan- 
guage at the Pingry School, Elizabeth, N. J., 
1878-82. Jointly with Mr. William Stanley, 
now of the Stanley Electric Co., he made 
and developed (in a laboratory supported for 
two years by the Swan Electric Co., of Bos- 
ton) certain electrical inventions which were 
sold to George Westinghouse, Jr., and upon 
which inventions the Westinghouse Electric 
Co. was incorporated 1882-83. Since then 
he has been a solicitor of patents and expert 
in New York. 

Mr. Thompson's earliest experience in 
patent matters began with the firm of Pope, 
Edgecomb, & Terry, with whom he was as- 
sociated in completing thirty patents upon 
his own inventions. At the beginning of his 
career as a solicitor he was intrusted with all 
the business of the Pozver and Electrical 
World patent bureaus, for two years. He 
has made a specialty of patents which require 
for their proper understanding and handling 
a thorough knowledge of electricity, chem- 
istry, and engineering. He has for a num- 



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ber of years enjoyed the services, as asso- 
ciate technical counsel, of Prof. William A. 
Anthony, formerly president of the American 
Institute of Electrical Engineers, and for fif- 
teen years a Professor at Cornell University. 

Mr. Thompson is the author of the follow- 
ing books : " Roentgen Rays and Phenomena 
of the Anode and Cathode," and " Invention 
as a Science and an Art." As associate edi- 
tor for two years of the Electrical World 
he wrote numerous articles, especially a 
long series on " Analytical and Systematic 
Method of Inventing." He has also contrib- 
uted the following ■ papers to technical 
journals: "Expansion of Polynomials," 
Mathematical Visitor, 1880; "Chemistry of 
the Carbon Filament," Transactions of the 
American Institute of Electrical Engineers, 
I, 1884; articles relating to "Telephonic 
Action," Electrical Engineer, 1891 and 1892; 
" Micanite and its Application to Armature 
Insulation," Transactions of the American 
Institute of Electrical Engineers, IX, 1892, 
" How to Protect Inventions in Foreign 
Countries without Effect upon the Term of 
the United States Patent," Science, 1892; 
'■ Protection of Industrial Property," Cas- 
sier's Magazine, 1894; serial on "Principles 
of Invention," Electric Poiver, 1895 ; serial 
on " Automatic Telephone Exchange Sys- 
tems," jointly with Mr. Ward Decker, Ibid., 
1896. Numerous other articles on patents, 
patent law, and related subjects have ap- 
peared in various journals. 

Mr. Thompson is a member of the Ameri- 
can Society of Mechanical Engineers, and of 
the American Institute of Electrical Engi- 
neers (a charter member), and has served 
the latter on the boards of Managers and 
Examiners. 

Mr. Thompson is the son of William P. 
and the late Emily B. Thompson, and is a de- 
scendant of Capt. Lewis Thompson of the 
Revolutionary Army, and of the Butler fam- 
ily of Virginia, one member of which was 
the first wife of General George Washing- 
ton's father. He married Edith Chetwood 
Coursen, February 10,, 1886. 

Thomson, William Inslee (M.E., '97), was 
born in Newark, N. J-. June 26, 1876; son of 
James A. and Adaline W. Thomson. He 
was Instructor in Applied Electricity at 
Stevens Institute, 1897-1900 ; chief machinist 



of the U.S.S. " Badger " during the Spanish 
War; employed in the electric construction 
department of the Manhattan Railway Co., 
New York, 1900-02; and has been with the 
Safety Car Heating & Lighting Co., New 




W. I. Thomson 

York, from 1902 to date. He is an associate 
member of the American Institute of Elec- 
trical Engineers. 

Thuman, Frederic (M.E., 90), was born 
near Evansville, Ind., February 7, 1867; son 
of John and Phillipine (Shickel) Thuman. 
Prior to entering the Institute he completed 
a four-years apprenticeship with a firm of 
engineers and millwrights, and acquired ex- 
perience in the shops, at draughting, in the 
erection of machinery, and in surveying. He 
was employed in the Standard Oil Co.'s At- 
lantic Refinery, Philadelphia, 1890, and with 
the L^nited Gas Improvement Co., Philadel- 
phia, 1890-92, being engaged in draughting 
at Philadelphia, 1890; as assistant to the 
manager of the branch office in Chicago, 
1891-92; and erecting apparatus and testing 
water-gas plants in various parts of the 
country, 1892. He has been identified with 
the work of Messrs. Humphreys & Glasgow, 
since their establishment in 1892. For the 
first two years he was engaged in designing 
and erecting water-gas plants, and in carry- 
ing out tests and experiments for the purpose 
of improving the economy of the Lowe proc- 



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5S1 



ess under European conditions. In 1894 he 
was permanently installed in the London 
office as manager of the construction depart- 




F. Thdman 

ment and principal assistant to Mr. Glasgow. 
He now holds the position of chief engineer, 
and manager of the London office. He has 
developed several important patents in con- 
nection with the manufacture of carburetted 
water-gas ; these have been assigned to 
Messrs. Humphreys & Glasgow. He is a life 
member of the American Society of Me- 
chanical Engineers, and a member of the 
Stevens Alumni Association of America and 
Europe; the Rho chapter of the Delta Tau 
Delta fraternity; and of the Whitehall Club 
and the American Society of London. 

Tiemann, Harry Donald (M.E., '97), was 
born in Brooklyn, N. Y., March 26, 1875; 
son of J. H. and M. A. Tiemann. His great- 
uncle, Daniel F. Tiemann, was mayor of 
New York. The subject of this sketch was 
Instructor in a correspondence school, 1897- 
98; Instructor in Physics and Chemistry at 
the Pratt Institute, Brooklyn, 1898-99; In- 
structor in Mechanical Engineering at the 
University of Pennsylvania, 1899-1900: was 
engaged in the Department of Forestry (now 
a Bureau) at Washington, doing both office 
and field work, 1900-01 ; and is now in the 
Bureau of Forestry in charge of the Yale 
timber-testing laboratory. He took the 



course at the Yale Forest School, and gradu- 
ated with the degree of Master of Forestry, 
1903. His thesiSj on " Gas Engines," was 
published in the Stevens Institute Indicator, 
to which he also contributed an article on 
" The ]\Iechanical Relation of Force and 
Mass," in 1901. In the same year he in- 




H. D. Tiemann 

vented a hypsometer for measuring the 
height of trees. 

Tischner, Charles Frederick, Jr. (M.E., '02), 
was born in New York city October 10, 
1879; son of Charles Frederick and Annie 
Jane Maddock Tischner. After graduation 
he entered the draughting-room of the Gen- 
eral Building & Construction Co., and 
shortly afterward began patent law work, in 
which he is still engaged. He is an associate 
member of the American Institute of Elec- 
trical Engineers; a junior member of the 
American Society of Mechanical Engineers; 
and a member of the Phi Sigma Kappa and 
Theta Nu Epsilon fraternities. 

Toby, Edward M. (M.E., '96), was en- 
gaged in the Department of Tests at Stevens 
Institute, 1896; in the General Electric Co.'s 
works, Schenectady, N. Y., 1896-97; and 
has been with the National Contracting Co., 
New York, from 1897 to date. He was sent 
to New Orleans, La., where the company 
had a contract with the city to construct 



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THE STEVENS INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY 



an electrical system of drainage, the gen- 
eral plan of which was a central power sta- 
tion supplying power to several pumping- 
stations located at various points around the 
city. In 1898 he became engineer in charge 
of the construction of the central generating 
station of 6,000 horse-power, and later had 
entire charge on the field of all construction 
of central and sub-stations. In 1900 he was 
promoted to the position of chief engineer 
of the company, and some months later, upon 
the death of the local manager at New Or- 
leans, Mr. Toby assumed his duties, so that 
at the present time he is acting general man- 
ager and chief engineer. The total amount 
of the contracts already awarded to the Na- 
tional Contracting Co. by the city of New 
Orleans is about $2,500,000. He is a mem- 
ber of the Tau Beta Pi fraternity. 

Tock, Clarence Robert (M.E., '98), was 
born April 13, 1874. He was with the Fos- 




toria Incandescent Lamp Co., Fostoria, O., 
from 1898 to 1903, and is now superintend- 
ent of the Ravenna Lamp Factory, Ra- 
venna, O. 

Mr. Tock is the son of Orson W. and Ella 
M. Tock. He married Verna O. Parrish. 
November 2, i8q8. 



1868. He was in the employ of Hildreth 
Brothers, New York, 1890-91 ; in the de- 
partment of tests of the Chicago, Burling- 
ton, & Quincy Railroad, Aurora, 111., 1891- 
92; in the like department of the Great 
Northern Railroad, St. Paul, Minn, 1892- 
94 ; with the Paul Steam System Co., Boston, 
Mass., 1895-96; with the Newark Electric 
Light Co., Newark, N. J., 1897-98; and has 
been connected with the Nason Manufactur- 
ing Co., New York^ from 1898 to date, be- 
ing now vice-president of the company. He 
is a member of the Delta Tau Delta fra- 
ternity. 

Mr. Todd is the son of James W. and Mary 
Piatt Todd. He married Lucy Carpenter 
Bedell, June 24, 1896, and they have one 
child, Lynette Adele Todd. 

Topping, Howell (M.E., '02), was born 
in Brooklyn, N. Y., June 12, 1878; son of A. 
Howell and Cornelia Topping. His early ed- 
ucation was received at the Adelphi Acad- 
emy, Brooklyn. After graduation he was 
employed in the job-work department of the 
National Tube Co., McKeesport, Pa., until 
1903, when he became erecting engineer 
for the William B. Scaife & Sons Co., of 
Pittsburg, Pa. He is a member of the Beta 
Theta Pi and of the Sip-ma Psi fraternities. 




Henry Torrance, Jr. 



Todd, George Lawrence (M.E., '90), was 
born in New Rochelle, N. Y., February 13, 



Torrance, Henry, Jr. (M.E., '90), was 
born in Brooklyn, N. Y., March 7, 1870; son 



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583 



of Henry and Sarah Creighton (Peet) Tor- 
rance. He was in the employ of the Hen- 
drick Manufacturing Co., Ltd., Carbondale, 
Pa., for several years, and then became its 
agent in New York, 1896-99. In the latter 
year the Carbondale Machine Co., was or- 
ganized, and he was appointed its engineer 
and director, managing the New York office 
of the company, where he is still located. He 
is a member of the American Society of 
Mechanical Engineers; the Engineers' Club 
of New York; the American Society of Re- 
frigerating Engineers; and of the Delta Tau 
Delta fraternity. 

Torrance, Kenneth (M.E., '84), was born 
in Brooklyn, N. Y., June 29, 1863. He was 




Kenneth Torrance 

employed in the shops of Henry R. Worth- 
ington, 1884-93, serving in various capaci- 
ties, as vise hand in erecting pumps, assistant 
to foreman in machine-shop, engineer in the 
erecting department on waterworks engines, 
and as assistant manager and engineer of the 
Chicago office of the firm. He engaged in 
general engineering in Chicago, 1893-94, and 
has been chief engineer at the Ridgewood 
engine-house and line stations in the De- 
partment of City Works, Brooklyn, from 
1894 to date. He is a member of the Amer- 
ican Society of Mechanical Engineers ; the 
American Waterworks Association; the 
Brooklyn Engineers' Club ; the Municipal 



Engineers' Club ; the National Association 
of Stationary Engineers; and of the Rich- 
mond Hill Golf Club. 

Mr. Torrance is the son of Henry and 
Sarah Creighton (Peet) Torrance. He mar- 
ried Luise L. Meisel, April 15, 1895. 

Towne, Joseph Minott (M.E., '97), was 
born in East Orange, N. J., July 7, 1875. 
After an extensive tour through the western 
and southwestern section of the United 
States he entered the office of Hill & Turner, 
architects and engineers, New York. He 
remained with this firm until 1900, when he 
obtained a position in the engineering depart- 
ment of the Jersey City works of the Safety 
Car Heating & Lighting Co., where he re- 
mained until January i, 1903, when he was 
transferred as general agent to the com- 
pany's offices in New York. He is a member 
of the American Society of Civil Engineers; 
the New York Railroad Club; and the 
Masonic Order. 

Trautvetter, Carl (M.E., '90), was chemist 
and mechanical engineer with the Sharpsville 
Furnace Co., Sharpsville, Pa. ; electrician 
with the Bristol Co., Waterbury, Conn. ; and 
was last registered as manufacturing record- 
ing instruments at Paterson, N. J. 

Trautwein, Alfred Philip (M.E., '76), was 
born in New York city October 10, 1857. 
He was in the employ of the Continental 
Iron Works, Brooklyn, N. Y., as mechanic, 
draughtsman, and mechanical engineer, en- 
gaged in the construction of coal and water 
gas works, fuel-gas plants, ice-making and 
refrigerating machinery, and marine con- 
struction, 1876-89; with the Hendrick Manu- 
facturing Co., Ltd., Carbondale, Pa., as 
superintendent, engaged in the manufacture 
of ice-making and refrigerating plants, oil- 
works machinery, coal-breaker machinery, 
and perforated sheet metals, 1889-99; a^d 
since the latter year he has been president 
of the Carbondale Machine Co., building 
ice-making and refrigerating plants, oil- 
works machinery, hydraulic machinery, coal- 
breaker machinery, etc. He is also president 
of the Carbondale Chemical Co., the Carbon- 
dale Supply Co., the Fernbrook Water Co., 
and of the Belmont Water Co. ; secretary of 
the Los Angeles Ice & Cold Storage Co. ; 



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treasurer of the Sperl Heater Co., and di- 
rector of the Pioneer Dime Bank, all of Car- 
bondale, Pa. ; also president of the American 
Acid & Alkali Co., of Bradford, Pa., and di- 
rector of the Buffalo Cold Storage Co., of 
Buffalo, N. Y. He served the Institute in 
the capacity of Alumni Trustee from 1887 to 
1890. His graduating thesis, on " The Man- 
ufacture of Coal Illuminating Gas," was pub- 
lished in the American Gas Light Journal, 
1876-77. He is a member of the American 
Society of Mechanical Engineers; the Engi- 
neers' Club of New York; the Manufactur- 
ers' Club of Philadelphia ; the Engineers' 
Club of Scranton, Pa. ; the Drug Trade Club, 
New York ; and of the Delta Tau Delta fra- 
ternity. 

Mr. Trautwein is the son of John Philip 
and Emily Helwig Trautwein. He married 
Mary E. Hendrick, January 29, 1891, and 
they have four children, Caroline Hendrick, 
Emily Hendrick, Elizabeth, and Margaret 
Trautwein. 

Trube, Gustave Adolph (M.E., '90), was 
born in Brooklyn, N. Y., July 25, 1869. He 




G. A. Trube 

graduated from Brooklyn Public School No. 
15, in 1884, and from the Brooklyn Polytech- 
nic Institute (scientific course) in 1887, in 
which year he entered the Sophomore class 
at Stevens. On graduation he joined the 
staff of the Illinois Steel Co., Chicago, hold- 



ing different positions in the South Chicago, 
and Joliet works of this company. In 1893 
he made a trip of inspection to all the prin- 
cipal steel and iron works in Great Britain 
and on the continent of Europe, and reported 
thereon to his company. In 1895 he was ap- 
pointed assistant general superintendent of 
the Union Works of the company. In 1897 
he joined the Ludlow Valve Manufacturing 
Co., Troy, N. Y., and in 1898 became connect- 
ed with the Westinghouse interests : first, the 
Westinghouse Air Brake Co., Pittsburg ; then 
the Westinghouse Brake Co., Ltd., of Lon- 
don, Paris, and Hanover (Germany), to in- 
troduce American methods of manufacture 
in the company's shops; and finally, in 1901, 
the British Westinghouse Electric & Manu- 
facturing Co., Ltd., of London and Manches- 
ter, as manager of the brake department; 
and he is now located at Manchester, where 
he is manager of the tramway department, 
having charge of the street railway work. 
He has taken out patents on improvements in 
brakes for electric tram cars and other vehi- 
cles, and applications for other patents are 
pending. He is a member of the American 
Institute of Mining Engineers ; the Ameri- 
can Society of Mechanical Engineers ; the 
New York Railroad Club; the Chicago 
Athletic Club; the Iron and Steel Institute; 
the American Society in London ; and of the 
Conservative Club, Manchester, England. 

Mr. Trube is the son of Carl and Ottonia 
(Fincke) Trube. He married Bertha Wun- 
der, June 17, 1896, and they have two chil- 
dren, Robert Loud and Maud Ottonia Trube. 

Tucker, Benjamin W. (M.E., '84), was in 
the employ of the Newark Filtering Co., 
Newark, N. J., 1884-88; and of the Hyatt 
Pure Water Co., Newark, 1888-90; with 
Henry Warden, Germantown Junction, Phil- 
adelphia, 1890-91 ; and was consulting engi- 
neer for special machinery at Newark, N. J., 
1891-98. In 1898 he removed his office to 
New York city, where he is now located as 
consulting engineer in special and automatic 
machinery. From 1895 to 1899 he was as- 
sociated with Mr. W. S. Corwin, M.E. (Stev- 
ens, '85), in electric work and coal-handling 
machinery. 

Tuttle, Willard S. (M.E., '84), was born 
in Brooklyn, N. Y., June 22, 1863. He was 



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585 



employed in the shops and draughting-office 
of the Ferracute Machine Co., Bridgeton, 
N. ]., manufacturers of presses and dies for 
sheet metal, 1884-86; and has been with the 
Tuttle & Bailey Manufacturing Co., Brook- 
lyn, N. Y., manufacturers of hot-air registers 
and ventilators (having served in the shop 
and office and being at present mechanical en- 
gineer and secretary) from 1886 to date. He 
has patented minor improvements in the con- 
struction of registers. He is a member of 
the American Society of Mechanical Engi- 
neers ; the Brooklyn Engineers' Clul:i : and 
the Dyker Meadow Golf Club. He is also a 
trustee of Adelphi College. 

Mr. Tuttle is the son of Silas and Arabella 
Tuttle. He married Christine J. W. Loeser, 



ling, who left their native village, Waldfish, 
Germany, in 1847, because of unsatisfactory 
political conditions, and went to Wisconsin. 




W. S. Tuttle 

May 2T„ 1900, and they have one child, Dor- 
othy Tuttle. 

Twitchell, Richard S. (M.E., '90), was In- 
structor at the Hill School, Pottstown, Pa., 
1890-97 ; Instructor in the department of sci- 
ence and technology of the Pratt Institute, 
Brooklyn, N. Y., 1897-99; and has been em- 
ployed in the construction department of the 
Western Electric Co., New York, from 1899 
to date. 

Uehling, Edward A. (M.E., 'yy), was 
born in Richwood, Wis., June 3, 1849; the 
son of Frederick and Anna Margareth Ueh- 




E. A. Uehling 

Frederick Uehling was one of the pioneers 
in the section in which he settled. 

Edward A. was the sixth child and first 
American born in the family. The usual 
hardships and blessings of pioneer life fell 
to his lot. With the exception of about six 
months in the summer of 1870, during which 
time he endeavored to sell shop rights for a 
land-roller on which he had obtained a 
patent, he remained at home, going to 
school in winter, and working on the farm 
in summer, until he entered Stevens in 

1873. 

He was assistant to Dr. Thurston on ex- 
perimental work in the Mechanical Labora- 
tory of the Stevens Institute, testing cold 
rolled iron and steel, 1877-78; and was en- 
gaged on a preliminary survey of a line of 
railroad in western Pennsylvania and eastern 
Ohio, and then as draughtsman with the 
Douglas Furnace Co., Sharpsville, Pa., 1879- 
1880. He took a private course of study in 
metallurgy and chemistry with Dr. Stillman 
at Stevens Institute in 1880; conducted a 
commercial laboratory at Sharpsville, Pa., 
1880-83; 'w^s in charge of the laboratory of 
the Bethlehem Iron Co., Bethlehem, Pa., 
1883-85 ; of the blast furnace of the Sharps- 
ville Furnace Co., Sharpsville, Pa., 1885- 



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87; of the blast furnaces of the Bethlehem 
Iron Co., 1887-90; and of the two furnace 
plants of the Sloss Iron & Steel Co., Birm- 
ingham, Ala., 1890-95. While there he had 
charge of the remodelling and reconstruction 
of the several furnaces. After these im- 
provements had been completed he resigned 
his position. 

While Mr. Uehling was with the Bethle- 
hem Iron Co., in 1888, the idea of the pneu- 
matic pyrometer was conceived in the course 
of his search for a pyrometer that would be 
reliable, durable, and accurate for tempera- 
tures usual in modern blast-furnace practice. 
The idea of the gas-composimeter from 
which the pyrometer was really evolved had 
occurred to him some time before. For lack 
of time nothing was done with these inven- 
tions until 1893, when Mr. A. Steinbart, a 
young German engineer, became sufficiently 
interested to devote his time to perfecting 
them. After Mr. Uehling's resignation from 
the Sloss Iron & Steel Co., he devoted most 
of his time to the further development of 



matic pyrometer, a full description of which 
was published in the Stevens Indicator, 
April, 1894, records temperatures as high as 
3,000° F. It has come to be the standard 
pyrometer for indicating and recording the 
blast and gas temperatures of the modern 
blast furnace, and is extensively used for an- 
nealing and tempering steel. A description 
of the composimeter was published in the 
Stevens Indicator, October, 1897. 

Mr. UehHng is also the inventor of the 
pig-iron molding and conveying apparatus 
shown in the accompanying illustrations, 
which was first put in successful operation 
at the Lucy furnaces in 1896. The iron cast 
over this machine nowhere comes in contact 
with sand or other injurious substance. The 
molds, during their return, travel in an in- 
verted position, and are sprayed with a 
refractory lining mixture, basic or carbona- 
ceous, which, if anything, improves the 
Cjuality of the iron. Hence the immense sur- 
face of sand-bed and a corresponding area of 
the cast-house, and the labor and other 




Fig. t.— Uehling Pic-Iron Process 



these instruments, which are now being 
manufactured by the Uehling-Decker Co., of 
which Mr. Uehling is president. The pneu- 



troubles connected therewith, are done away 
with. No labor is expended on the iron from 
the time it leaves the ladle until it is shipped 



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5«7 



in the car. This means a saving of from lo 
to 12 cents a ton. 

The machine soon began to attract atten- 



After his return from Europe Mr. Uehling 
devoted most of his time to the further de- 
velopment of the instruments, etc., manufact- 




FiG. 2. — Uehling Pig-Iron Process 



tion among the ironmasters of Europe. The 
Uehling Co., Ltd., was formed for its ex- 
ploitation in Europe, and in the spring of 
1899 Mr. Uehling crossed the Atlantic to 
assist in its introduction and development. 
He was located in Middlesborough, the centre 
of the celebrated Cleveland iron district, 
until August, 1901. 

The machine has become a necessary ad- 
junct to the modern American blast furnace, 
as without it the immense outputs, which in 
some instances have reached the almost in- 
credible quantity of over 700 tons per fur- 
nace in 24 hours, could not be handled. 
There are few large furnace plants that are 
not equipped with it, and it is only a ques- 
tion of time when all will be obliged to have 
them. In Europe its general adoption will 
be much less rapid, principally due to the 
fact that the output per furnace is not much 
over 25 per cent of what it is here; it is 
therefore not so much of a necessity. Fur- 
thermore, labor being cheaper, the saving to 
be realized by its use is less marked than in 
the United States. 



ured by the Uehling-Decker Co., and in 
addition carried on a consulting and expert 
business, which he still conducts in New 
York city. 

Mr. Uehling has taken out patents on a 
flexible land-roller (1869) ; gas seals for 
blast furnaces (1883 and 1884); furnace for 
burning gaseous fuel, water-circulation blast- 
furnace tuyers, etc. (1885) ; pneumatic pyrom- 
eter (1893) ; process of treating black band 
ores, gas composimeter, and Christmas-tree 
candle holder (1894); treatment of molten 
metal, and casting-machine (1895) ; multiple, 
pressure-gauges (1896) ; calorimeter, or 
quantitative heat measuring and recording 
apparatus, recording traction dynamometer, 
and expansion pyrometer (1898) ; auto- 
graphic grade-indicating or profiling appara- 
tus, mixing and spraying apparatus for cast- 
ing-machine and slag-machine (1899). 

Mr. Uehling has written the following arti- 
cles for publication: 

"Harvesting Machinery." Iron Age, 1877. 
"The Value of Gas Seals on the Blast Fur- 
nace." Ibid., 188^. 



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"Process of Smelting in the Blast Furnace." 
Stevens Indicator, 1887. 

"Improvements in Methods of Calculating 
Results in Chemical Laboratories." Ibid., 1887. 

"The Grading of Pig-iron by Fracture Is Not 
Sufficient Guide as to Its Quality." Iron Age, 
1888. 

"The Modern Blast Furnace." Stevens Indi- 
cator, 1888. 

"The Charging of the Blast Furnace." Ibid., 
1889. 

"The Manufacture of Steel in the South." 
Iron Age, 1894. 

"The Cost of Making Pig-iron in the Birming- 
ham District." Ibid., i8g4. 

"The Pneumatic Pyrometer." Stevens Indi- 
cator. 1894. 

"The Pneumatic Pyrometer." American 
Manufacturer, 1895. 

"The Value of Measuring and Recording the 
Temperature of the Waste Gases of a Blast 
Furnace." Ibid. 

"Blast Furnace Slag as a Reagent in the Proc- 
ess of Smelting." Stevens Indicator, 1896. 

"The Blast Furnace as a Power Plant." Ibid., 
1903. 

" Uehling's Method of Casting and Conveying 
Pig-iron." Cassier's Magazine, June, 1903. 

He has also read the following papers : 
" Dolomite as a Flux in the Blast Furnace," 
before the Alabama Industrial and Scien- 
tific Society, 1894; "Die Giessmachine," be- 
fore the Verein Deutschen Eisenhuttenleute, 
1900; "The Pneumatic Pyrometer," before 
the Cleveland Institution of Engineers, 1900. 
He is a member of the Tau Beta Pi fra- 
ternity. 

Mr. Uehling married Jeannette Merz, De- 
cember 25, 1880, and they have two children, 
Fritz Frederick and Edward Uehling. 

Uhlenhaut, Fritz, Jr. (M.E., '88), was 
born in New York city July 7, 1867. He 
took the expert course with the Thomson- 
Houston Electric Co., 1888-89; was in the 
employ of the Edison Electric Illuminating 
Co., Brooklyn, N. Y., 1889-91 ; assistant engi- 
neer with the Field Engineering Co., New 
York, 1891-94; with the Philadelphia Trac- 
tion Co., as assistant engineer, 1894-95, and 
as chief engineer, 1895-96; engineer with the 
Pennsylvania Heat, Light, & Power Co., 
Philadelphia, 1896-97; assistant engineer 
with the Metropolitan Traction Co., New 
York, 1897-99 > consulting engineer to the 
Telephone, Telegraph, & Cable Co. of Amer- 



ica, New York, 1899-1900; chief engineer of 
the Consolidated Traction Co., Pittsburg, 
Pa., 1900-01 ; and from January, 1902, to 
date has been chief engineer to the Pittsburg 
Railways Co. and the Allegheny County 
Light Co., Pittsburg. He is a member of the 
American Institute of Electrical Engineers ; 
the Franklin Institute, and the Union League 
Club of Philadelphia ; and an associate mem- 




FrITZ UHI.EtSTHAUT, JR. 

ber of the American Society of Mechanical 
Engineers. 

Mr. Uhlenhaut married Gertrude A. Good- 
hart, and they have one child, Fritz Uhlen- 
haut, 3d. 

Underbill, Henry Lawrence (M.E., 'oo), 
was born at Croton Point, N. Y., October 
II, 1875; son of Henry Haydock and Phoebe 
Wood Underbill. He is descended on both 
sides from Capt. John Underbill, who came 
to this country from England in the 17th 
century, and who obtained considerable 
prominence as an Indian fighter in the New 
England Colonies. He was in the employ of 
the New York Electric Vehicle Transpor- 
tation Co., New York, 1900; inspector of 
factories for fire-insurance purposes, with 
the Middle States Inspection Bureau, New- 
York, 1900-03 ; inspector of construction 
with the New York Mutual Gas Light Co., 
New York, during 1903 ; and is now one of 
the assistant engineers of the Consolidated 



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Gas Co. of New York. He is a member of 
the Chi Psi fraternity. 




H. L. Underhill 



Upjohn, Hobart B. (M.E., '99), was born 
in Brooklyn, N. Y., May 2, 1876. He won 
a scholarship to Webb's Academy of Ship- 
builders in 1894, but chose to go to Stevens 




Upjohn 



School and Institute. He was in the employ 
of the Worthington Pump Co., Brooklyn, 
N. Y., 1899-1900; was third assistant engi- 
neer of the steamship " New York," of the 



American Line, 1900; in the draughting- 
room of the New York Shipbuilding Co., 
Camden, N. J., 1900-01 ; engineer with the 
Transit Contract Co., Scranton, Pa., 1901 ; 
junior assistant principal of the School of 
Architecture at the International Corre- 
spondence Schools, Scranton, 1901-04; and is 
now engineer for the firm of Eidlitz & Mc- 
Kenzie, architects, New York. He has writ- 
ten an article on the Steam Turbine, and 
text-books, for use in the above-mentioned 
school, on Masonry; Arches, Vaults, and 
Domes; and Columns and Struts. He is a 
member of the American Society of Naval 
Engineers and of the Scranton Engineers' 
Club. 

Mr. Upjohn is the son of Richard M. and 
Emma Tyng Upjohn. His father and grand- 
father were both architects. The Hartford 
Capitol and Stevens Institute are works of 
his father, and Trinity Church, New York, 
was designed by his grandfather, Richard 
Upjohn. The subject of this sketch married 
Margaret Miller, April 8, 1902. 

Vail, Eugene Lawrence (M.E., '76), was 
born in Saint Servan, France, September 29, 
1856. After graduation he was employed 
with Major Wheeler as meteorologist, and 
after spending a year upon a geographical 
survey, during which time he had occasion to 
view some of the finest scenery in the world, 
he was encouraged to believe that success 
for him lay rather in the line of painting 
than of engineering. Accordingly he went 
to Paris to study with Cabanel at the Beaux 
Arts. After devoting three years there to 
drawing" and painting from the nude, he was 
advised to take up the painting of scenes 
from every-day life. 

Thrown upon his own resources, he went 
to the seaside village of Staples, on the 
coast of Picardy, where for many years he 
painted pictures of the sea and of fishermen, 
and sent one painting annually to the Salon 
of the Champs Elysees. He was finally re- 
warded by receiving honorable mention, then 
a gold medal, and later, at the Universal 
Exposition, a first-class medal in the Amer- 
ican Section, which placed him hors con- 
coiirs. He afterward obtained a gold medal 
at Munich, a first-class medal at Antwerp, 
and the diploma of honor at Berlin. In 1894 
he received the decoration of the Legion of 



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Honor. He left the old Salon of the Champs 
Elysees in 1897 to become an Associate at 
the Nouveau Salon. He is a member of the 
Paris Society of American Artists and of 
the Theta Xi fraternity. 

Mr. Vail is the son of L. E. and Clotilde 
(Le Gue) Vail, both Americans. He mar- 
ried Gertrude Mauran, January 14, 1890, and 
they have two children, Eugene Laurence 
and Mary Gertrude Clotilde Vail. 

Van Atta, Harry (M.E., '81), was born in 
Hackettstown, N. J., 'November 2, i860. He 
was superintendent of isolated plants for the 
United States Illuminating Co., New York, 
1881-85; in charge of the manufacturing- 
plant of Rathbone, Sard, & Co., Albany, 
N. Y., 1885-92; and has been general super- 
intendent of the J. L. Mott Iron Works, New 
York, from 1892 to date. He is a member 
of the American Society of Mechanical 
Engineers; of the Board of Street Opening, 
Borough of the Bronx; of the Fordham and 
Jefferson clubs ; and first vice-president of the 
Schnorer Club. 

Mr. Van Atta is the son of Henry H. and 
Melinda T. Van Atta. His ancestors came 
from Etten, Holland, about 1650. He mar- 
ried Katharine McGovern, November, 1882, 
and they have three children, Blanche Ade- 
laide, Kenneth Carlisle, and Willard Van 
Atta. 

Van Brunt, John (M.E., '97), was born in 
Englewood, N. J., January 29, 1877; son 
of Stephen and Christiana (Orser) Van 
Brunt. After a short engagement with the 
American Luxfer Prism Co., New York, in 
1897, he went with the American Stoker Co., 
by whom he is still employed. For several 
years he was located in various parts of the 
West in the interests of this company, but is 
now engaged at the home office, and works at 
Erie, Pa., as chief engineer. 

Van der Willigen, Thomas Anthony (M.E., 
'88), was born in Twello, Holland. Au- 
gust 5, 1866. He received his early school 
education in Haarlem, Holland. He was in 
the employ of the United Gas Improvement 
Co., of Philadelphia, Pa., having charge of 
the erection of several water-gas plants, 
1888-90. He was draughtsman and assistant 
engineer in the mechanical engineer's de- 



partment of the Calumet & Hecla Mining 
Co., Calumet, Mich., 1890-93 ; assistant to the 
engineer of the Winslow Bros. Elevator Co., 
Chicago, being principally engaged upon de- 
signs of safety devices for passenger eleva- 
tors, 1893-94; and chief draughtsman with 
the Buffalo Engineering Co., which at the 
time had the contract for making complete 
designs of a ship-lift to take the place of the 
locks at Lockport, N. Y., 1895-96. 

Since the latter date Mr. Van der Willi- 
gen's time has been devoted exclusively to 
the gas business. Since his connection with 
Messrs. Humphreys & Glasgow in 1896, as 
constructing engineer at their London 
branch, he has erected numerous plants both 
in England and on the Continent. He is 
now Messrs. Humphreys & Glasgow's repre- 
sentative for Holland and Belgium, with 
headquarters at Brussels. 

As a former member of the Engineers' So- 
ciety of Western New York he read a paper 
giving the results of his investigation of the 
hydraulic .ship-lifts at St. Omer, France, and 
at La Louviere, Belgium. He is a member 
of the Vereiniging van Gasfabrikanten in 
Nederland ; of the American Society of Me- 
chanical Engineers; and of the Theta Xi fra- 
ternity. 

Mr. Van der Willigen is the son of V. S. 
M. and S. A. (Van der Hell) Van der Willi- 
gen. Prof. V. S. M. Van der Willigen was 
Director of the Physical Laboratory of Tey- 
ler's Museum, Haarlem, Holland, and devot- 
ed his entire life to researches bearing on 
natural philosophy. He married Helena 
Brown, September 8, 1898, and they have 
one daughter, Vera Helena Van der Wilhgen. 

Van Saun, P. Edwin (M.E., '98), was 
born in Maywood, N. J., June 7, 1877. He 
was Instructor during the Supplementary 
Term at Stevens Institute, 1898; draughts- 
man at the Rogers Locomotive Works, Pat- 
erson, N. J., 1898; was employed in the 
meter department of the Edison Electric 
Illuminating Co., New York, 1898-99; in the 
engineering department of the Colorado Iron 
Works, Denver, Colo., manufacturers of 
mining and smelting machinery, 1899-1902; 
and has been chief engineer in the New York 
office of the latter company from 1902 to 
date. 

Mr. Van Saun is the son of John C. and 



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Margaret A. Van Saun. He married Eliza- 
beth G. Zabriskie, April 5, [899. 




P. E. Van Saun 

Van Vleck, Frank (M.E, "84), was born 
in Napanoch, N. Y., January 7, 1863. He 
prepared for college at Holbrook Military 
Academy, Ossining, N. Y. After graduation 
at Stevens he pursued a postgraduate course 
in science and physics at Johns Hopkins 
University, Baltimore, Md., 1884-85; was 
Instructor in Mechanical Engineering at Sib- 
ley College, Cornell University, 1885-86; and 
Assistant Professor in Mechanical Engineer- 
ing at that institution, 1886-88. From 1888 
to 1889 he was mechanical engineer with the 
Los Angeles Cable Railway Co., Los Ange- 
les, Cal., and consulting engineer for the 
power plant of the People's Railway, St. 
Louis, Mo., and from 1889 to 1890, chief 
engineer and constructor of the San Diego 
Cable Railway Co. During the next four 
years he was executive engineer of the 
Pacific Railway Co., Los Angeles, Cal., and, 
later, consulting engineer of the Los Ange- 
les Railway Co., the Pasadena & Pacific 
Railway, the Los Angeles & Pasadena Rail- 
way, the Los Angeles Traction Co., and the 
Citizens' Traction Co., San Diego. He was 
for a time in the Department of Yards and 
Docks at the Mare Island Navy Yard, 
A'allejo, Cal., and from 1899 to 1902 was 
assistant superintendent engineer of the 
LTnited States Army Transport Service, 



Pacific Fleet, San Francisco. From 1902 to 
1903 he worked as naval architect at the 
Government Hull Department of the New- 
port News Ship Yard, Va. He is at present 
in the Bureau of Steam Engineering of the 
Navy Department, Washington, D. C, re- 
cently serving as technical secretary of the 
U. S. Naval Fuel Oil Board. He is a mem- 
ber of the California National Guard, being 
lieutenant commanding the engineer divi- 
sions of the State of California Naval Militia, 
and chief engineer of the U.S.S. "Marion" 
at San Francisco. 

He developed the " Van Vleck System " of 
telephones for centralized battery service in 
use in large hotels. In cable-road work he 
made many inventions which were largely in 
use up to the time in which cable railways 
were superseded by electricity. 




Frank Van Vleck 

He is the author of the following fand 
other) papers : 

"Standard Section Lining." Transactions of 
the American Society of Mechanical Engineers, 
IX, 107 (1887). 

"Light Cable-Road Construction." Ibid., 
1890. 

"A California Mountain Railway." Cassier's 
Magazine, 1893. 

"Street Railway Track Brakes." Street Rail- 
way Jotirnal. 

"A Novel Cable Railroad." Ibid. 



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"The Longest Ocean Pier of the World." 
Railroad Gazette, 1893. 

"The Army's Navy." Harper's Weekly, July, 
1899. 

He is a member (and at one time was sec- 
retary) of the Engineers and Architects' As- 



neers; and founder and charter member of 
the Sigma Xi fraternity, the honorary scien- 
tific society corresponding to the classical 
Phi Beta Kappa. He received the degree of 
Doctor of Philosophy from Columbian Uni- 
versity in 1904. 




Van Vleck Quadruple Expansion !•: 
John Van Vleck 



sociation of Southern California; of the 
American Society of Naval Architects and 
Marine Engineers ; and of the University 
Club of Los Angeles, Cal. ; an associate mem- 
ber of the American. Society of Naval Engi- 



Mr. Van Vleck is the son of Rev. John 
and Julia Falconer Van Vleck, descended 
from an old Dutch family which settled in 
New Amsterdam prior to 1675. He married 
Augusta S. Peirce, November 25, 1889, and 



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they have two children, Dorothy and Peirce 
Van Vleck. 

Van Vleck, John (A^l.E., '84), was engaged 
by the Edison Co. for isolated lighting in the 
capacity of a blue-printer and assistant 
draughtsman ; but shortly afterward his 
work consisted wholly in making plans of 
wiring and of isolated electric plants. This 
resulted, in 1895, in work on central stations, 
including the designing of electrical appara- 
tus, and work in connection with the opera- 
tion of electric meters. When this compan}' 
was absorbed by the Edison Electric Light 
Co. in 1896, he was sent out on the road in 
the capacity of a central station inspector. 
In 1898 he became connected with the Edi- 
son Electric Illuminating Co. of New York, 
first as its chief electrician, and afterward as 
its constructing engineer, in which capacity 
he remained until April, 1901, when he be- 
came connected with the Rapid Transit Sub- 
way Construction Co. of New York, as its 
consulting mechanical engineer. 

Van Winkle, Franklin (M.E., 'jj), was 
consulting engineer and solicitor of patents 
at Paterson, N. J., 1877-80; Professor of Me- 
chanical Engineering at the State Mechanical 
Agricultural College of Texas, 1881-84; con- 
sulting engineer. New York, 1884-87; secre- 
tary and engineer with the Zell Engineering 
Co., New York, 1887-88; and has been con- 
sulting and mill architect, New York, from 
1888 to date. 

Vidal, Philip M. (M.E., '92), was draughts- 
man at the Camden Iron Works, Camden, 
N. J., 1892-96; was with the Sprague Elec- 
tric Elevator Co., New York, 1897-1902 ; and 
has since been employed in the Government 
Printing Office, Washington, D. C. 

Villa, Jose Maria (M.E., '78), has been 
Professor of Mathematics at the National 
University of the United States of Colom- 
bia, from 1878 to date. 

Vogelius, C. F. (M.E., '92), was a student 
in electricity at Columbia College, New 
York, 1892-93 ; with the Sprague Electric 
Elevator Co., Watsessing, N. J., 1895-97; the 
New York Sugar Refining Co., Long Island 
City, N. Y., 1898; Johnson & Co., Lorain, O., 



1898-99; the Bethlehem Steel Co., South 
Bethlehem, Pa., 1899-1901 ; and has been 
assistant mathematician with the Equitable 
Life Assurance Society, New York, from 
1901 to date. 

Voorhees, Edward C. (M.E., '99), has 
been employed in the ordnance department 
of the Midvale Steel Co., Nicetown, Phila- 
delphia, Pa., from 1899 ^o date. 

Vreeland, Frederick King (M.E., '95), was 
born in Jersey City, N. J., March 4, 1874; 
son of John Van Buskirk and Mary Amelia 
Vreeland, of Dutch and English descent re- 




F. K. Vreeland 

spectively, their ancestors having settled in 
this country about the middle of the 17th 
century. At a very early age he showed a 
strong bent in the direction of science and 
mathematics. This was exercised in child- 
hood by experimenting, mainly in the line 
of electricity and magnetism, building motors 
and other apparatus. 

After graduation at Stevens he took a 
postgraduate course in electrical engineering 
at Columbia University, New York, 1895-96. 
He was with the Crocker- Wheeler Electric 
Co., Ampere, N. J., from 1896 to 1900, first 
as draughtsman, next in the engineering de- 
partment, and subsequently in various capac- 
ities in the experimental laboratory and the 
testing and engineering departments until 



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1898, when he was made first assistant engi- 
neer. In this latter capacity he had active 
responsible charge of the engineering depart- 
ment, and general responsible oversight ot 
the draughting and testing departments. His 
duties in the engineering department includ- 
ed the perfecting and standardizing of the 
stock forms of dynamos, motors, and other 
apparatus, and the designing of all odd ma- 
chines for special purposes ; also the prepa- 



cell, — remarkable for its extreme sensitive- 
ness, reliability, and ease of manipulation ; 
permitting the transmission of messages at 
the highest speed attainable by a telegraph 
operator, with a very small expenditure of 
energy. Patents are pending on this and 
other wireless telegraph devices. Mr. Vree- 
land is now engag-ed in electrical engineering 
work, Montclair, N. J. 

Mr. Vreeland's graduating thesis, prepared 




Electrotyping Dynamo 
F. K. Vreeland. 



ration of bids, estimates, etc., on contracts 
and special work. 

Mr. Vreeland held this position with the 
Crocker-Wheeler Co. until 1900, when he re- 
signed to join an exploring expedition in the 
Rocky Mountains. While in the West he 
continued his earlier work in electrical 
theory, with especial reference to its applica- 
tion to wireless telegraphy. An article on 
" Maxwell's Theory and Wireless Telegra- 
phy " was published in the Electrical World 
and Engineer, September 13, 1902, and he 
has since issued a book with the same title. 
Among the products of his work in this line 
is a new type of detector for electric waves, 
— a highly specialized form of electrolytic 



jointly with Messrs. Percy Allan and G. E. 
Bruen, on " Experimental Determination of 
the Influence of Back Pressure on the Econ- 
omy of a Surface-Condensing Engine with 
Independent Vacuum Pump," was published 
in Stevens Indicator, XIII, 136. He is a 
member of the New York Electrical Society; 
of the American Association for the Ad- 
vancement of Science; and of the Anthro- 
pological Society of Washington, D. C. ; and 
an associate of the American Institute of 
Electrical Engineers. 

Vuilleumier, Rudolph (M.E., '02), was 
born in Basel, Switzerland, April 19, 1869; 
son of Augustus V. and Marie B. (Schwei- 



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zer) Vuilleumier. He received his early ed- 
ucation in Basel, and came to America in 
1883. He spent a number of years in the 
jewelry trade. He is assistant engineer with 
the Pintsch Compressing Co., New York, en- 
gaged on experimental and construction 
work. He is a member of the Tau Beta Pi 
fraternity. 

Wachter, Charles Lucas (M.E., '99), was 
born in Troy, N. Y., July 11, 1877. He was 
Instructor during the Supplementary Term 
at the Stevens Institute, 1899; with the Chi- 
cago Pneumatic Tool Co., New York, and 
later with the Standard Air Brake Co., 1899- 
1900; and has been with the Lidgerwood 
Manufacturing Co., New York, from 1900 to 
date. After about a year as draughtsman, he 
was advanced to the cableway engineering 
department of the company, in which he is 
assistant engineer of the cableway depart- 
ment. He is a member of the American 
Society of Civil Engineers ; and of the Phi 
Sigma Kappa and Theta Nu Epsilon fra- 
ternities. 

Mr. Wachter is the son of Louis F. and 
Ella J. Wachter. He married Minnie Louise 
Hartwig, April 8, 1902. 

Wade, William Harvie (M.E., '85), was 
born in Henry County, Va., October 22, 
1865; son of Rev. Anderson and Susan Col- 
ston (Harvie) Wade. He was a grandson 
of Gen. Jacquelin B. Harvie, U.S.N., Rich- 
mond, Va., and a great-grandson of Chief 
Justice Marshall. From earliest Colonial 
times his ancestors were men closely con- 
nected with the history of the country. Al- 
most from infancy he developed a passion 
for the navy, but opposition on the part of 
his parents prevented his entering the Acad- 
emy at Annapolis, and he turned to engineer- 
ing as a profession, and graduated from the 
Virginia Military Institute, Lexington, Va., 
when only seventeen. He then went to the 
University of Virginia for the summer 
course, and thence to Stevens in the fall of 
1883. He was employed in the shops of the 
Pittsburg, Cincinnati, & St. Louis Railroad, 
Dennison, O., 1885-86; in the erecting de- 
partment of the Henry R. Worthington 
Hydraulic Works, Brooklyn, N. Y., 1886-89 
(this term being broken by a long illness) ; 
consulting engineer in the shops and erect- 



ing department of the E. P. Allis Co., Mil- 
waukee, Wis., 1889; draughtsman with E. 
D. Leavitt, 1890; draughtsman with the 
De La Vergne Refrigerating Machine Co., 
1890-91 ; and with the Cambria Iron Co., 
1891-92. 

From July, 1892, to February, 1897, he was 
employed in the London office of Humphreys 
& Glasgow as engineer in charge of their 
construction work. In the winter of 1897 he 
returned to America and was employed by 
the Cambria Iron Co. This position he re- 
signed to become designing and consulting 
engineer for the Frank M. Pierce Engineer- 




W. H. Wade 

ing Co. In the spring of 1899, with the as- 
sistance of some friends, he arranged to 
purchase the controlling interest in the Wil- 
mington, N. C, Gas Light Co., and was 
about to take up the management of that 
company when his death occurred by drown- 
ing in the surf at Wrightsville Beach, near 
Wilmington, N. C, September 9, 1899. 

Waefelaer, Louis, Jr. (M.E., '92), was born 
in Hoboken, N. J., in the year 1872; son of 
Louis and Mary . (Storie) Waefelaer. He 
was an apprentice in a machine-shop, 1892- 
93 ; with Carl H. Schultz, manufacturer of 
mineral waters, as mechanical engineer and 
general superintendent, 1893-97; with the 
Consumers Co., Chicago, as mechanical engi- 
neer and superintendent, 1897-1901 ; mining 



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in the Klondike, 1901-02; and has been me- 
chanical engineer to the Kennicott Water 




Louis Waefelaer, Jr. 

Softener Co., from 1903 to date, and is at 
present in London, England. 

Wagner, Herbert Appleton (M.E., '87), 
was born in Philadelphia, Pa., February 24, 
1867; son of William and Clara W. (Apple- 
ton) Wagner. He was a member of the en- 
gineering corps of the Westinghouse Electric 
Co., 1887-91 ; and general superintendent of 
the Missouri Electric Light & Power Co., 
and of the Missouri-Edison Electric Co., St. 
Louis, Mo., 1889-1900. Li addition to this 
work he established in 1891 the Wagner 
Electric Manufacturing Co., St. Louis, and 
conducted this business until 1899. In con- 
nection therewith he took out patents on 
various devices referring to alternating- 
current transformers and motors. He was 
president of the Mississippi Valley Automo- 
bile Transportation Co., 1900-01, and has 
practised as a consulting engineer in St. 
Louis and New York from 1900 to date, be- 
ing engaged chiefly in the electrical industry. 
For some time previous to opening these 
offices Mr. Wagner was frequently called 
upon for professional service in the East, 
particularly in Boston, where he was en- 
gaged by the Edison Electric Illuminating 
Co. and the Boston Electric Light Co. 

Mr. Wagner has been retained as an ex- 



pert witness in many important patent suits, 
notably in the extensive litigation between 
the Westinghouse Electric & Manufacturing 
Co. and the Stanley Electric Manufacturing 
Co., involving the Tesla polyphase patents, 
which led to the purchase of the latter com- 
pany by the associates of the Westinghouse 
Company in the latter part of 1902 while the 
hearings and decisions were still pending. In 
these suits Mr. Wagner was the principal 
witness for the Stanley Company. 

In connection with Mr. D. W. Roper he 
took out a patent in 1899 for an arc lamp 
controller for operating arc lamps on con- 
stant-potential circuits, whereby the effi- 
ciency of distribution is increased and the 
cost of production reduced. 

Mr. Wagner is the author of several pa- 




ll. A. Wagner 

pers contributed to technical journals or read 
before scientific societies. Among them are: 

"The Missouri-Edison Electric Co. of St. 
Louis, and the Development of the Alternating 
Current System for Light and Power Distribu- 
tion." Electrical Engineer, June, 1898. 

"General Distribution from Central Stations 
by Alternating Currents." Read before the 
National Electric Light y\ssociation, 1898. 
Cassicr's Magazine, 1898. 

"A Method of Deriving Two or More Alter- 
nating Currents Differing from One Another in 
Phase from a Source of Electricity Supplying 
Alternating Current of a Single Phase." Elec- 
trical Engineer, 1899. 



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"Single-Phase Distribution." Read before 
the National Electric Light Association, 1S99. 

"The Use of Alternating Current for the 
Extension of Central-Station Supply and for 
General Distribution." Read before the Asso- 
ciation of Edison Illuminating Companies, 1899. 

He is a member of the American Institute 
of Electrical Engineers ; of the Military 
Order of the Loyal Legion of the United 
States ; and of the Engineers', University, 
Mercantile, and Country clubs of St. Louis. 

Wagner, Julius Homer (M.E., '02), was 
born at Chatham, N. J., January i, 1881 ; 
son of Julius T. and Carrie (Wurster) Wag- 
ner. He has been cng-ao-ed as head draup-hts- 



engineering department at Lynn, Mass.. 
1897-99; ^"d m the commercial engineering 




J. H. Wagner 

man for the Buffalo Scale Co., Buffalo, 
N. Y. ; with F. E. Jackson, M.E., Orange, 
N. J. ; and is now with the Buffalo Forge Co., 
Buffalo, N. Y. 

Wagoner, Philip Dakin (M.E., '96), was 
born in Somerville, N. J., July 24, 1876. He 
was employed in the shops of the Brooklyn 
City Trolley Road, repairing and equipping 
cars, 1896; and has been with the General 
Electric Co. from i8g6 to date. Starting 
vv-ith the student's course at Schenectady, 
N. Y., he has been employed in the testing 
department ; the engineering department, 
where he was occupied with the design of 
direct-current motors; in the transformer 




P. D. Wagoner 

department at Schenectady, again being em- 
ployed on transformers, both multiple and 
constant current, for series alternating arc 
lighting, from 1899 to 1901, when he was ap- 
pointed manager of transformer sales, which 
position he now holds. His work includes 
the handling of the commercial questions in- 
volved in the sale of all transformers manu- 
factured by the General Electric Co. 

The graduating thesis of Messrs. Wagoner, 
E. L. Decker, and O. A. Pope, on " The Plant 
of the Cataract Construction Co., at Niagara 
Falls, N. Y.," was published in the Stevens 
Indicator, XIV, 20. Mr. Wagoner read a 
paper on " The Series Incandescent Light- 
ing System of the Future " before the North- 
western Electric Light Association at its 
convention held in Milwaukee, Wis., Janu- 
ary 15-17, 1901. The paper was reprinted 
or abstracted in many technical journals, 
and published in pamphlet form by the Gen- 
eral Electric Co., the latter being now in its 
second edition. Mr. Wagoner is a member 
of the American Institute of Electrical En- 
gineers ; the Mohawk, Mohawk Golf, and 
Corlaer Rifle clubs ; and of the Alpha Tau 
Omega and Theta Nu Epsilon fraternities. 

Mr. Wagoner is the son of Henry G. and 
Rachel L. Wagoner. He married Effie 
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Wainright, Arthur Vredenburgh (M.E., 
'98), was born in Farmingdale, N. J., August 
8, 1875; son of Halsted H. and Belle V. 
Wainwright. He is of English descent, his 
ancestors settling at Shrewsbury, N. J., in 
1670. He has been employed by the United 
Gas Improvement Co., Philadelphia, as 
assistant engineer at the works of the Peo- 
ple's Gas Light Co., Manchester, N. H., 
1898-1900; as superintendent of the South 
Side Gas Co., Pittsburg, Pa., 1900-01 ; and 
as district superintendent of the Connecticut 
Railway and Lighting Co., operating gas 
plant, electric lighting, and electric cars at 
South Norwalk, Conn., from 1901 to date. 
He is a member of the American Gas Light 
Association; the Western Gas Association; 
the York and Scottish Rite Masonry; and 
the Chi Phi fraternity. He is corresponding 
secretary of the Alumni Association of the 
Stevens Institute of Technology. 

Walder, Jacob (M.E., '02), is employed at 
the Jacob Walder's Reed & Harness Mill, 
Paterson, N. J. 

Walker, Frederick Wiley (M.E., '95), was 
born in New York city August 27, 1874 ; son 
of Robert Scott and Frances Helena Walker. 
He was employed by the Edison Electric 
Illuminating Co., of Brooklyn, successively 
as draughtsman, assistant superintendent of 
steam plant, superintendent of construction 
of union station, and superintendent of steam 
plant; with Westinghouse, Church, Kerr, & 
Co., New York, 1899-1902; and has since 
been vice-president and chief engineer of 
the Comstock-Haigh-Walker Co., engineer 
contractors, Detroit, Mich. ; and chief engi- 
neer of the Rochester & Eastern Railway. 
He is a member of the Brooklyn Engineers' 
Club, and a junior member of the American 
Society of Mechanical Engineers. 

Walker, Louis Bowman (M.E., '91), was 
born in New York city February 25, 1869. 
He was employed for two years with the 
Baltimore Electric Refining Co., Baltimore, 
Md., and was then made assistant superin- 
tendent of the Old Dominion Copper Co., 
Globe, Arizona, which position he held until 
the property was sold in 1895. He then 
came East to take a position with the Moun- 
tain Copper Co., Ltd., of England, by whom 



he was sent to their mines in Shasta County, 
Cal., on special work. Returning in the early 
part of 1896 to the company's smelting 
works at Elizabethport, N. J., he was made 
manager, and had the works put in readiness 
for handling the material sent there from the 
California mines, a task of considerable mag- 
nitude, which was carried out to the entire 
satisfaction of the owners. While holding 
the position as manager of these works, he 
became ill, and died of heart failure. May 11, 
1897. 

Mr. Walker was the son of Thomas George 
and Lucy Bowman (Holbrook) Walker. 
He married Elizabeth C. Wheeler, January 




L. B. Walker 



27, 1894, and one child, Margarette Louise 
Walker, blessed their union. 



Walker, Millidge Penderell (M.E., '98), 
was born in Lime Rock, Conn., March 23, 
1877; son of Millidge and Jessie Inches 
Walker. He is a direct descendant of the 
Penderell brothers who saved the life of 
Charles II of England after the battle of 
Worcester. His father's eldest brother still 
receives a grant given to the family after 
the Restoration. His family came to the 
United States before the Revolutionary war. 
He is a direct descendant of the pre-Revolu- 
tionary Governor Millidge, of Georgia. He 
attended the Military Academy at Cheshire, 
Conn. He was with the Sigourney Tool Co., 



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Hartford, Conn., 1898-1901 ; draughtsman 
with the Columbia and Electric Vehicle Co., 




M. P. Walker 

1902, in which year he was appointed Pro- 
fessor in St. John's College, Shanghai, 
China, and in 1903 was appointed Professor 
of Mathematics in the same college. He is 
an honorary member of the Alpha Chi Rho 
fraternity (Phi Psi Chapter, Trinity College, 
Hartford, Conn.). 

Wall, Edward Barry (M.E., '76), was born 
in Kingsboro, N. Y., April 25, 1856. Imme- 
diately after graduation he entered the 
service of the Pennsylvania Railroad Co., in 
the car-shops at Altoona, and went through 
all the shops as an ordinary apprentice. 
The valuable experience and knowledge ob- 
tained in this way, of how work is to be 
done, and his determination to solve the 
problems that came before him, were matters 
of which his superior officers were aware, 
and gained for him promotion to responsible 
positions. 

From Altoona he was called on June i, 
1883, w^hen twenty-seven years old, to be 
superintendent of motive power of the 
Pittsburg, Cincinnati, Chicago, & St. Louis 
Railroad, an important part of the Pennsyl- 
vania System. In this position he spent ten 
years, and manifested such an ability to meet 
the problems of his profession, such singular 
power to deal with men, and such loyalty to 



his company, that he received the confidence 
not only of his superior officers, but also of 
the men who were under his control; and he 
was looked upon by railroad men every- 
where as one of the brightest men in the 
profession. 

In 1893 he was selected to represent the 
Pennsylvania Railroad's interest at the 
World's Fair, Chicago, and a large share of 
the success of that feature belongs to him. 
While in Chicago he was a member of the 
board of general managers of the railroads 
of the United States and Canada. He was 
chosen one of the Jury of Awards in the 
Transportation Department of the Fair, at 
the close of which he was promoted assistant 
to the general manager of the Pennsylvania 
Lines West of Pittsburg. The next step 
would have been to the position of one of 
the vice-presidents of the road, and there is 
no doubt but that he would shortly have oc- 
cupied that place, but he was taken ill in the 
latter part of March, 1894, and died on April 
I, of peritonitis succeeding an operation for 
appendicitis. 

The following extract from the report of 
the President of the Pennsylvania Railroad 
will show the estimate put upon him by those 
associated with him in his work: 

"While engaged in the preparation of this 
report, death has again deprived the company 
of the services of one of its most promising and 
valuable officers, Mr. Edward B. Wall, who, on 
March i, 1893, was appointed assistant to the 
first vice-president, and transferred to Chicago, 
with the general supervision of traffic questions 
arising at that point, and particularly in con- 
nection with the Columbian Exposition. This 
office having been abolished in January, 1894, 
Mr. Wall was appointed assistant to the general 
manager, with special supervision of the opera- 
tions of the purchasing department. His long 
connection with the motive power department 
and general knowledge of transportation had 
thoroughly fitted him for the discharge of 
responsible duties, and his sudden death on 
April I has entailed on our company a loss which 
cannot be too highly regretted." 

By order of the Board, 

"G. B. Roberts, 

President." 

He was a member of the Columbus Club, 
Columbus, O. ; the Chicago Club, Chicago, 
111., and of the Duquesne Club, Pittsburg. 
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Mr. Wall was the son of Edward and 
Sara Berry Wall. He married Fanny 
Mitchell, June 24, 1891, and they had one 
child, Edward Barry Wall. 

Wall, George B. (M.E., '75), studied and 
practised patent law in New York from 
1879 until his death, which occurred in 



Wall, George Lloyd (M.E., "93), was born 
in Hoboken, N. J., January i, 1872. He was 
a special apprentice in the shops of the 
Southern Railroad, Knoxville, Tenn., 1894- 
95 : resident inspector in the department of 
tests of the same company, Knoxville, 1895- 
96 ; mechanical engineer with the Hazleton 
Boiler Co., New York, 1896-98; inspector in 
the motive-power department of the Penn- 
sylvania Lines West of Pittsburg, North- 
west System, Fort Wayne, Ind., 1838-1902: 
general foreman of the Erie & Ashtabula 
division of the Pennsylvania Lines West of 
Pittsburg, 1902-03; assistant engineer of 
motive power of the same lines, 1903 ; direc- 
tor of the St. Louis Locomotive Tests of the 
Pennsylvania Railroad, 1904; and is now 
assistant engineer of motive power, Penn- 
sylvania Co., Fort Wayne, Ind. He is a 
member of the American Society of Mechan- 
ical Engineers. 

Mr. Wall is the son of Edward and Sara 
Berry Wall. He married Myra Kellog 
Crane, December 16, 1899. 

Wallis, James T. (M.E.. 91), was in the 
employ of the Pennsylvania Railroad shops 
at West Philadelphia, 1891-93; superintend- 
ent of the Altoona Manufacturing Co., 1893- 
94 ; and has been in the service of the Penn- 
sylvania Railroad since the latter date in the 
following positions : at the West Philadelphia 
shops, 1894-96; assistant road foreman of 
engines of the Philadelphia, Wilmington, & 
Baltimore Railroad, 1896-99; assistant mas- 
ter mechanic at the Meadows shops. United 
Railroads of New Jersey, 1899-1900; assist- 
ant engineer of motive power in the office of 
the general superintendent of motive power, 
1900-01, and in the same capacity in the 
Pennsylvania Railroad Division of the Penn- 
sylvania Railroad, 1901-03 ; and is master 
mechanic in the Baltimore shop of the 
Northern Central Railwav. 



Wallis, John Mather (M.E., '76), has been 
employed in railway work almost from the 
time he completed his studies at the Listitute. 
Beginning as apprentice in the Baltimore 
shops of the Northern Central Railway in 
1877, he has been advanced to positions of 
increasing responsibility and is at present 
general superintendent of the Pennsylvania 
Railroad Division of the Pennsylvania Rail- 
road, at Altoona, Pa. He has held the fol- 
lowing positions : assistant road foreman of 
engines for the Northern Central Railway 
and the Baltimore & Potomac Railroad, 1879- 
81 ; assistant engineer of tests with the Penn- 
sylvania Railroad, Altoona, Pa., 1881-82; 
superintendent of motive power of the North- 
ern Central Railway, 1882-83; superintend- 
ent of motive power of the Philadelphia, Wil- 
mington, & Baltimore Road, 1883-90 ; superin- 
tendent of motive power of the Pennsylvania 
Railroad Division of the Pennsylvania Rail- 
road, 1890-96; general superintendent of the 
Philadelphia & Erie Railroad Division and 
Northern Central Railway, Williamsport, Pa.; 
and is now general superintendent of the 
Pennsylvania Railroad Division of the Penn- 
sylvania Railroad, Altoona, Pa. 

Wallis, Philip (M.E., "79), has been in 
the employ of the Chicago, Burlington, & 
Quincy Railroad, Aurora, 111. ; at one time 
as engineer of tests, and later as master 
mechanic, at Beardstown, 111. ; master me- 
chanic with the Lehigh Valley Railroad, 
Hazleton, Pa. ; and superintendent af mo- 
tive power with the Long Island Railroad, 
Richmond Hill, Long Island, N. Y. He is 
a member of the American Society of Me- 
chanical Engineers ; the American Institute of 
Mining Engineers; and the Franklin Insti- 
tute of Philadelphia. 

Walton, Druid Alexander (M.E., '87), was 
born in Louisville, Ky., September 24, 1864. 
He has' been connected with the Joseph 
Mitchell Boiler Yard Co., Louisville, Ky., 
since 1887, and at the present time holds the 
position of general manager and member of 
firm of C. J. Walton & Son, proprietors of 
the same shop. 

Mr. Walton is the son of Charles James 
and Louise (Mitchell) Walton. He married 
Florence Knight Lapp, October 25, 1887, and 
they have one child, Louise Mitchell Walton. 



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Ward, William Wanklyn (M.E., '95), was 
born in Trenton, N. J., April 19, 1873. He 
was in the employ of the Mount Vernon 
Construction Co., Washington, D. C, 1895- 
96, engaged in the construction of a trolley 
road from Washington to Mount Vernon, 
Va. During this time he held various posi- 
tions from time-keeper to superintendent of 
overhead work. He was next superintend- 
ent of a contract for the construction of a 
railroad in Brooklyn, N. Y., by R. W. Hil- 
dreth & Co., New York, 1896-1901. During 
his connection with this company he filled 
the positions of inspector of bridges and of 
lumber, superintendent of overhead construc- 
tion during the extension of the Hartford, 
Manchester, & Rockville Railroad, and engi- 
neer in charge of the erection of the Grand 
Avenue drawbridge, New Haven, Conn. 
He was treasurer and general manager of 
the New York & Yucatan Construction Co., 
which was engaged in steel-work construc- 
tion in the latter country, including the 
erection of buildings, conveyors, and piers, 
and the building of railroads 1901-04; and is 
now general manager of the Atlantic Pile Co., 
New York. He has constructed a pier, and 
warehouses at Key West for the Mallory 
Steamship Line, and has recently finished a 
pier and coal-conveyor for the Peninsular & 
Occidental Steamship Line. He is a mem- 
ber of the New York Society of Electrical 
Engineers, and of the Theta Xi fraternity. 

Mr. Ward is the son of William Wanklyn 
and Frances Louise Ward. He married 
Susan J. Hopkins, October 28, 1896. 

Warren, Edward Cyrus (M.E., '97), was 
born in New York city March 6, 1876; son 
of Dr. John S. and Sarah B. Warren. He is 
descended from James Warren, who settled 
in Kittery, Me., in 1656. Edward Cyrus has 
been employed as draughtsman with Stru- 
thers, Wells, & Co.. Warren, Pa., founders, 
machinists, and boiler-makers ; in the same 
capacity and as designer with the Electric 
Vehicle Co., Hartford, Conn., builders of 
electric and gasoline automobiles, his work 
being principally in connection with auto- 
matic battery charging and handling appa- 
ratus for the company's station at Boston, 
Mass., and later having charge of its instal- 
lation; chief draughtsman and mechanical 
assistant to the manager of the American 



Radiator Co.'s Detroit plant, Detroit, Mich., 
having in charge the laying out and design- 
ing of improvements and alterations in spe- 
cial machinery and equipment of the plant; 




E. C. Warren 

and as salesman for the Standard Steam 
Specialty Co., New York. 

He is a member of the University Club, 
of Detroit, Mich. ; of the 7th Regiment, Na- 
tional Guard of the State of New York; and 
of the Chi Psi fraternity. 

Warrington, James Nelson(M.E., '83), was 
born in Chicago, 111., January 22, i860; son 
of Henry and Isabella Warrington. He was 
draughtsman with the Vulcan Iron Works, 
Chicago, 1883-86; engineer and secretary 
of these works, 1886-91 ; consulting engi- 
neer, Chicago, 1891-97; and secretary of the 
Vulcan Iron Works, 1897-99. He then re- 
signed on account of ill health, and since 
that time has resided at Los Angeles, Cal. 
He has taken out a patent for an automatic 
steam pile-hammer. A paper by him on 
" Propulsive Power of Ships " was published 
in the Journal of the American Society of 
Naval Engineers, VI, 259, and a second 
paper on the same subject was presented 
to the same society January 7, 1898. He 
is a member of the American Society of 
Mechanical Engineers ; the American Asso- 
ciation for the Advancement of Science ; the 
Society of Naval Architects and Marine En- 



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gineers; the University Club of Chicago; 
and of the Sigma Chi fraternity. He is also 
an associate member of the American Society 




J. N. Warrington 

of Naval Engmeers, and a non-resident mem- 
ber of the Franklin Institute. 

Watkins, Howard (M.E., 'oi), has been 
with Baker, Smith, & Co., heating and venti- 
lating engineers. New York, since 1901. 



Watters, Edw. L. 

at Bayonne, N. J. 



(M.E., '02), is located 



Webster, Hosea (M.E., '82), was graduated 
at Cornell University, with the degree of 
Bachelor of Science, in 1880, and received 
the degree of Master of Science at Cornell in 
1881 ; entered Stevens Institute in 1881 as 
a senior; was in the employ of Henry R. 
Worthington, 1882-97, being engaged as a 
draughtsman, designing and erecting pump- 
ing and hydraulic machinery, at the Brook- 
lyn, N. Y., works, 1882-84; as sales manager 
in the Chicago branch office, 1886-94; in the 
same capacity in the New York office, 1894- 
95 ; and in the condenser department and 
general sales department, New York, 1895- 
97. He has been manager of the sales de- 
partment of the Babcock & Wilcox Co., New 
York, from 1897 to date. He is a member of 
the American Society of Mechanical Engi- 
neers ; the American Institute of Mining En- 



gineers ; and of the Engineers' Club of New 
York. 

Weeks, Frank J. (M.E., '93), was assistant 
engineer in the Park and Sewer Depart- 
ments of New York city, 1893-1903; grad- 
uated from the New York Law School in 
1901 with the degree of Bachelor of Laws; 
and is now practising Customs law in part- 
nership with Edward E. Barret, Ex-United 
States Examiner of the Port of New York. 
He married Katherine B. Foley, June 7, 1902. 

Weichert, Arnold Ernst (M.E., '97), was 
born in Stapleton, Staten Island, N. Y., De- 
cember 24, 1875. He received his early edu- 
cation at private schools in Germany, and 
at the College of the City of New York. 
He engaged in a special course in chemistry 
at Stevens Institute, 1897; was Instructor 
with the Electrical Engineer Institute of 
Correspondence Instruction, New York, 
1898-99; special apprentice with the Wil- 
liam Cramp & Sons' Ship & Engine Building 
Co., Philadelphia, Pa., 1899-1900; draughts- 
man with the American Air Power Co., New 
York, 1900-01 ; and with the American 
Steel & Wire Co., Schoenberger Works, 
Pittsburg, Pa., the National Steel Co., New 
Castle, Pa., 1901 ; and the Marine Engine & 




A. E. Weichert 

Machine Co., Harrison, N. J., 1901-04. He 
is now with J. G. White & Co., New York. 



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Mr. Weichert is the son of Arnold Karl 
and Erna (Koepke) Weichert. He married 
Cora Kipp, April 23, 1902. 

Weichert, Maximilian J. (M.E., '96), was 
born in New York city July 25, 1874. His 
early education was received in Germany, 
and at the College of the City of New York. 
He was employed in the shops of H. R. 
Worthington, Brooklyn, N. Y., 1896-97; by 
the A. A. Griffing Iron Co., Jersey City, 
N. J., 1897; the International Navigation Co., 
New York, 1897-1902; as draughtsman for 
the Tietjen & Lang Dry-Dock Co., Hoboken, 
N. J., 1902-03 ; for the Buffalo Refrigerating 
Machine Co., Harrison, N. J., 1903-04; and 
is now with W. D. Forbes & Co., Hoboken, 
N.J. 

Mr. Weichert is the son of Arnold Karl 



duction manager. He was formerly a member 
of the Manhattan Athletic Club, New York. 




M. J. Wj.iaii.Ki 

and Erna (Koepke) Weichert. He married 
Ella Kipp, September 18, 1901, and they 
have one child, Charles Kipp Weichert. 

Weissblatt, Murray Edward (M.E., 'oo), 
was born in New York city April 17, 1879 ; 
son of Siegmund and Bessie Weissblatt. He 
has been in the employ of the Crocker- 
Wheeler Co., manufacturers of electrical 
machinery, from 1900 to date; in the 
draughting department, 1900, and since that 
year in the manufacturing department, where 
at the present time he is assistant to the pro- 




M. E. Weissblatt 

Welch, William McNair (M.E., '98), was 
born in Oil City, Pa., August 23, 1874. He 
was employed in the electrical construction 
department of the Metropolitan Street Rail- 
way Co., New York, 1898-99; by the Phila- 
delphia Co., Pittsburg, Pa., being engaged in 




W. M. Welch 



the designing and construction of natural- 
gas compressing-plants, etc., 1899-1904; and 



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is now chief engineer of the Union Natural 
Gas Corporation, Columbus, O. 

Mr. Welch is the son of John Collins and 
Eliza Jane (McNair) Welch. He married 
Nina Oliver Thompson, April 24, 1901, and 
they have two children, Marjorie Thompson 
and Elizabeth Welch. 

Welles, Edward Richardson (M.E., 00), 
was born in Brooklyn, N. Y., November 21, 
1878. He was in the employ of the New 
Amsterdam Gas Co., Long Island City, 
N. Y., 1900-01 ; and of the United Gas & 
Coke Co., New York, 1901 ; assistant super- 
intendent of the boiler department of the 
Carnegie Steel Co., Homestead, Pa., 1901- 
02 ; in the ordering and estimating depart- 
ment of the Best Manufacturing Co., 
Pittsburg, Pa., 1902-03 ; in the sales depart- 
ment of the International Steam Pump Co., 
New York, 1903; and with M. W. Kellogg 
& Co., New York, from 1903 to date. He 
IS a member of the Beta Theta Pi and Theta 
Nu Epsilon fraternities. 

Welles, Frederick Alford (M.E., '98), 
was born in Perkinsville, Vt., January 31, 
1877; son of Frederick R. and Mary E. 




F. A. Welles 

Welles. He was descended from Rev. Noah 
Welles, born at Stamford, Conn., in 1718. 
After graduation he was with the Cornell 
Iron Works, Garrisons, N. Y., for three 



months. He then engaged in electric work 
in Philadelphia, Pa., and in the fall of. 1898 
entered the employ of the United Gas Im- 
provement Co., of Philadelphia, in which he 
remained until his death in 1902, at which 
time he was assistant engineer at Jersey City. 
While with this company he was located at 
the gasworks at Jersey City, Hoboken, New- 
ark, and at the home office in Philadelphia. 
He was a member of the American Gas Light 
Association, and of the Beta Theta Pi and 
Tau Beta Pi fraternities. 

Wells, Pierson L. (M.E., '92), was en- 
gaged as assistant engineer with the Scharff 
Manufacturing Co., New York ; studied 
patent law at the New York Law School ; 
and has practised as a patent attorney. New 
York, from 1898 to date. 

Westcott, John Townsend (M.E., '90), was 
born in Granville, N. J., March 14, 1868. 
He entered the employ of the United Gas 
Improvement Co., Philadelphia, Pa., in 1890, 
being engaged in the draughting-room, de- 
signing carburetted water-gas works, later 
as assistant constructing engineer and then 
as constructing engineer in the erection of 
carburetted water-gas plants, including de- 
signing, construction, and experimental 
work, spending time at different gasworks 
at Chicago, Minneapolis, Allegheny, Hart- 
ford, etc. 

He then associated himself with Mr. L. 
L. Merrifield, who was a colleague during 
his connection with the United Gas Improve- 
ment Co., and the Pearsons (father and 
son) of Toronto, to organize the Economical 
"Gas Apparatus Construction Company, Ltd., 
of Toronto, and was made its manager and 
treasurer. The chief business of the com- 
pany was to provide the parburetted water- 
gas apparatus known as the Merrifield- West- 
cott-Pearson setting. These settings were 
erected at Ottawa, Montreal, Toronto, and 
Belleville, in Canada, at Kingston, Pa., and 
other places in America. 

At the same time Mr. Westcott had a pri- 
vate consulting practice for .several com- 
panies in Canada, and was called upon to 
give expert testimony upon gas matters. 

The Economical company had agents in 
London, but it soon became necessary to es- 
tablish a London house, and in 1894 Mr. 



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Westcott was appointed to take charge of the 
European business. Soon after his arrival 
in England Mr. Westcott secured a contract 
with the Corporation of Blackburn for the 




J. T. Westcott 

supply and erection of two settings of the 
Improved Lowe carburetted water-gas plants 
of a combined capacity of 1,250,000 cubic 
feet per diem. This order was soon suc- 
ceeded by others, and since 1894 more than 
thirty plants have been erected in England 
alone, besides others in Holland, Japan, and 
South America. 

Mr. Westcott has taken out patents in 
England for improvements in apparatus for 
the manufacture of water-gas, 1894, and 
jointly with L. L. Mersifield and W. H. 
Pearson, Jr., for 'improvements in apparatus 
for the manufacture of carburetted water- 
gas, 1893. He has also taken out several 
United States patents. 

He has written several articles for tech- 
nical journals; one, on "The Evolution of 
Oil Heaters," appeared in LigJit, Heat, and 
Pozvcr, of Philadelphia, in 1894. " Observa- 
tions on Carburetted Water-Gas " was the 
subject of a paper presented to the Civil and 
'Mechanical Engineers' Society of London, 
and "Carburetted Water-Gas in Europe," and 
" Labor-Saving Machinery in Gas Works," 
were published in different Gas journals. 

He is a member of the American Gas 
Light Association ; the Western Gas Associa- 



tion, United States; the Institution of Civil 
Engineers of France; and of the National 
Liberal Club of London. He is also a di- 
rector of the Nelson (B. C.) Gas Light & 
Coke Co., Ltd., and president of the Rimella 
Gold Mining Co., Ltd., and of the Frank 
Harden (Ltd.) Hat Manufacturers, Luton, 
England. 

Mr. Westcott is the son of John Bunyan 
and Margaret (Townsend) Westcott. He 
married Grace Stevens Raphael in October, 
1893, and they have one child, Margaret 
Townsend Westcott. 

Westerfield, Jason R. (M.E., '99) was with 
the Diesel Motor Co., New York, 1899; the 
New York Dredging Co., New York, 1899- 
1900; in the electrical department of the 
New York Navy Yard, 1900-01 ; with the 
Holland Submarine Torpedo Boat Co., 1901- 
02; with Henderson, Lindley, & Co., 1902- 
04; and is now president of the American 
Oil Engine Co., New York. 

Westervelt, Arthur Fountain (M.E., '98), 
was born in Hackensack, N. J., August 25, 
1875 ; son of Erskine E. and Charlotte 
(Fountain) Westervelt. At the time of the 
outbreak of the war with Spain, and during 
his junior year, he volunteered his services 
and was detailed for duty on the U.S.S. 
" Badger." At the end of the war, he re- 
turned to the Institute and graduated with 
his class. He has since been engaged as 
president of the Union Electrical Supply Co., 
New York; and as a commission broker. 
He is a member of the Oritani Field Club of 
Hackensack, N. J., and of the Theta Nu 
Epsilon fraternity. 

Wettlaufer, Louis F. (M.E., '92), entered 
the employ of Curtin & Co., engaged in the 
lubricating oil business, and was sent to 
Buenos Ayres, Argentine Republic, to assist 
in tests for the firing of locomotives on the 
Great Southern Railway with oil instead of 
coal. The tests were highly satisfactory, and 
oil would now be used but for a prohibitive 
duty which was laid on crude oil. At the 
conclusion of the tests he was appointed man- 
ager of the Rosario branch of the River 
Plate Petroleum Co., which position he held 
until 1899, when the company withdrew from 
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American engagement he travelled exten- 
sively through Brazil, Chile, Uruguay, and 
Paraguay, as well as in Argentina, and, not- 
ing the immense field for agricultural imple- 
ments in those countries, he returned to New 
York and became associated with Mr. Philip 
Jones, with whom he engaged in the export 
of agricultural implements and machinery. 
He is now with A. B. Farquhar & Co., New 
York, manufacturers of agricultural imple- 
ments and machinery. 

Wetzler, Joseph (M.E., '82), was born in 
Hoboken, N. J., December 6, 1863. He was 




Joseph Wetzler 

in the employ of M. Hubbe, mechanical en- 
gineer, 1882; and at the Weston works of 
the United States Electric Lighting Co., 
Newark, N. J., 1883, where he went through 
all the departments and gained a working 
knowledge of the manufacture of dynamo- 
electric machinery. He was on the editorial 
staff of the "Scientific American," 1884; 
editor of the " Electrical World," 1885-90 ; 
and editor of the " Electrical Engineer," 
1890-99. In the spring of 1898 he founded 
the Electrical Engineer Institute of Corre- 
spondence Instruction, which grew to such 
proportions that in 1899 ^^ "^^^ obliged to 
relinquish the editorship of the " Electrical 
Engineer," and has since devoted his entire 
attention to the work of the Institute, of 
which he is president. 



Mr. Wetzler has written a great many arti- 
cles relating to electrical work. He is joint 
author with Mr. T. C. Martin of " The Elec- 
tric Motor and Its Applications," which has 
run through numerous editions. He also 
edited, with Mr. Martin, the electrical sec- 
tion of the new edition of " Appleton's 
Cyclopaedia of Applied Mechanics," and con- 
tributed to " Scribner's Magazine " the elec- 
tric railway articles in the series since 
published in book form. 

He is a member (and ex-vice-president) 
of the American Institute of Electrical Engi- 
neers, and represented it as delegate at the 
Paris Electrical Congress in 1889; member 
(and ex-president) of the New York Elec- 
trical Society; and member of the London 
Institution of Electrical Engineers; the 
Vienna Elektrotechnischer Verein; the 
American Association for the Advancement 
of Science; the American Electrochemical 
Society ; and of the Masonic Order. 

Mr. Wetzler is the son of Albert and Anna 
Wetzler, and is of Austro-German extrac- 
tion. He married Pauline Gerson, October 
30, 1895, and they have one child, Lucile 
Gerson Wetzler. 

Wheatley, W. H. Crawford (M.E., '87), 
was born in Americus, Ga., December 6, 
1866. He was engaged during part of 1887 
upon the preliminary surveys, etc., for the 
location of the mains, standpipe, hydrants, 
etc., for the plant of the Americus Water 
Works, and in conjunction with this work 
prepared his graduating thesis on " The 
Manufacture of Cotton Seed Oil." He was 
superintendent of the Americus Oil Co., 
1887-88, and while serving in this position 
built a large cotton-seed-oil mill at Americus. 
He was in partnership with his uncle under 
the firm name of C. M. Wheatley & Co., 
architects and contractors, at Americus, 
1888-90, and in the latter year he organized 
the Americus Construction Co., of which he 
was vice-president and general manager, and 
the Americus Refrigerating Co., of which he 
was president, 1890-93. He practised as an 
engineer and contractor, and was also a 
member of the firm of T. A. Kluttz & Co., 
architects, 1893-96; was city engineer and 
superintendent of waterworks of Americus, 
1896-97; engaged in a general engineering 
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1900; and has been secretary and treasurer 
of the Sheffield-Huntington Co., since 1900. 

In addition to his professional work Mr. 
Wheatley has devoted considerable time to 




W. H. C. Wheatley 

raising' cotton. He owns and operates two 
large plantations, and finds his technical 
training and knowledge of chemistry of vast 
importance in the successful planting and 
raising of this staple. 

He is a member of the New York Athletic 
Club; a Royal Arch Mason, Knight Templar, 
and member of the Mystic Shrine ; a member 
of the orders of Elks, Red Men, and Knights 
of Pythias; lieutenant-colonel of Georgia 
State troops, and aide-de-camp to Governor 
Joseph M. Terrell ; and was recently elected 
to the State Senate from the Thirteenth Sen- 
atorial District. 

Mr. Wheatley is the son of John W. and 
Mary E. (Dudley) Wheatley. He is the 
grandson of William H. Crawford, one of 
Georgia's most distinguished citizens, states- 
men, and diplomats. He is great-grandson 
of Dorothea Dudley and John Cary of 
Virginia. He married Helen Huntington, 
October 12, 1897, and they have one child, 
Charles Huntington Wheatley. 

Whigham, William (M.E., '88), has filled 
engagements with Thomas Carlin's Sons, 
engineers and general contractors ; Julian 
Kennedy, mechanical engineer, Pittsburg, 



Pa.; and in the armor plate department of 
the Homestead Steel Works, Homestead, Pa. 
During the winter of 1895-96 he spent three 
months in St. Petersburg, Russia, in connec- 
tion with the armor contract for the cruiser 
" Rossia." While connected with the armor- 
plate department he took out patents on a 
spraying device and methods of controlling 
the curvature of armor plate while harden- 
ing. He also patented a method of unload- 
ing ore cars, now owned by the McMyler 
Manufacturing Co., Cleveland, O. He was 
later detailed for special work in the devel- 
opment of certain grades of steel by the 
president of the Carnegie Steel Co.; was 
steam engineer at the Homestead works, 
1900-01 ; and has been superintendent of the 
Howard Axle Works of the Carnegie Steel 
Co. from 1901 to date. 

Whitcomb, Henry Donald, Jr. (M.E., '92), 
was born in Richmond, Va., September 26, 
1869. He was draughtsman for the Edge 
Moor Bridge Co., Edge Moor, Del., 1892; 
inspecting engineer with the Wilkes-Barre 
& Eastern Railroad during the construction 
of 22 bridges, 1892-93; inspecting engineer 
of shop construction (the Boston train shed) 
with the Boston & Maine Railroad, 1893; 
engineer in charge of construction, at the 
Baldwin Locomotive Works, Philadelphia, 
Pa., for the Huanchaca Mining Co., Bolivia, 
of 16 locomotives, 1893-94. 

From 1894 to 1901 he was connected in 
various capacities with the United Gas Im- 
provement Co., of Philadelphia, during which 
term he erected the Standard Lowe water- 
gas apparatus and masonry tanks for gas- 
holders in numerous cities throughout the 
United States. Among his assignments to 
duty were the following positions : assistant 
to the superintendent of the Kansas City, 
Mo., Gas Co., 1897; engineer in charge of 
the erection of the Point Breeze Gas Works, 
Philadelphia, 1898; superintendent of the 
Mutual Gas Light Co., and of the Pintsch 
Gas Co., Savannah, Ga., 1899 ! superintend- 
ent of the Atlanta Gas Light Co., Atlanta, 
Ga., 1900; assistant to superintendent of 
works of the United Gas Improvement Co., 
Philadelphia, 1900-01, during which assign- 
ment he also erected two water-gas sets for 
the Municipal Gas Works, Richmond, Va. ; 
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Gas Co., Newark, N. J., 1901. In 1903 he 
was appointed general manag-er of the gas 
department of the Public Service Corpora- 
tion of New Jersey, at Newark, N. J. 

He is a member of the American Gas 
Light Association; the Western Gas Asso- 
ciation; the Masonic Order; and of the Chi 
Phi fraternity. 

Mr. Whitcomb is the son of Henry Donald 
and Virginia K. Whitcomb. He married 
Daisy A. Cohen, September 2'j, 1899, and 
they have two children, Henry Donald and 
Helen Whitcomb. 

White, Edward Francis (M.E., '86), was 
born at Constable Hook, N. J., April 6, 
1862. He was superintendent of the Bergen 
Point Sulphur Works, 1886-89; vice-presi- 
dent and treasurer of the Field Engineering 
Co., 1889-93 1 consulting engineer, New 
York, 1893-97; in charge of the department 
of cooling-towers and condensing-equipments 
for M. T. Davidson, New York, 1897-98; 
passed assistant engineer in the U. S. Navy 
during the Spanish-American war, and has 
been president and manager of the S. C. 




E. F. White 

White's Sons' Co., brimstone smelters and 
refiners, Bayonne, N. J., and Conejos, Dur- 
ango, Mexico, from 1898 to date. 

Mr. White has taken out two United 
States patents, one for a continuous process 
apparatus for the manufacture and refining 



of brimstone, and the other for a combined 
evaporation cooler and surface condenser. 
He has also filed caveats for other apparatus. 
The brimstone apparatus . was designed to 
employ, as a heat-conveying medium, either 
steam, hot water, or hot air. It differs from 
the old form of steam apparatus in that it 
operates by surface melting instead of by 
direct contact of steam and ore, and its most 
important feature is its continuous operation. 
The object of the combination water-cooler 
is to offer, in a single piece, a surface con- 
denser for condensing the exhaust steam by^ 
the use of cooling water as in the usual way,, 
and at the same time to recool the condensing 
water by a current of air drawn from the 
atmosphere, so that the cooling water can 
be used over and over again, reducing the 
quantity of cooling water to be continuously 
supplied to the amount that is evaporated by 
the absorptive action of the air. 

Mr. White is the author of papers on the 
separation of native sulphur from its im- 
purities, contributed to the " Engineering 
and Mining Journal " ; on evaporation of 
water-coolers, to the " Electrical World " ; 
and on self-cooling condensers, to the " Elec- 
trical Engineer." 

He is a member of the American Society 
of Mechanical Engineers, and of the Beta 
Theta Pi fraternity. 

Mr. White is the son of Samuel C. and 
Julia M. White. He married Lizzie M. 
Riegel, April 25, 1889, and they have four 
children, Helen Maria, Edward Russel, Sam- 
uel Charles, and Frances Elizabeth White. 

White, Henry C. (M.E., '81 ), was in the em- 
ploy of the Llartford Engineering Co., 1881- 
82 ; manager of the Westinghouse Machine 
Co., Chicago, 111., 1882-83; salesman for the 
same company, San Francisco, Cal., and 
Pittsburg, Pa., 1883-85; manager for B. W. 
Payne & Sons, New York, 1885-88; manager 
of the Phoenix Iron Works Co., New York, 
1888-92; chief engineer of the Utah & Mon- 
tana Machinery Co., Salt Lake City, Utah, 
1892-93 ; manager of the Phoenix Iron 
Works Co., New York, 1894-96; engaged in 
general engineering work, 1897; engaged on 
the Uehling method of casting and convey- 
ing metals, 1897-98; and with the Pope Tube 
Co., Hartford, Conn., 1898-1900. In 1900 he 
went to Boston, where he has since been 



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connected with various companies. He did 
considerable engineering work for the Inter- 
colonial Copper Co., of Dorchester, New 
Brunswick, and was engaged on some work 
for the Dominion Iron & Steel Co., at Syd- 
ney, Cape Breton. On his return from 
Sydney he went with the Planters' Compress 
Co., Boston, where he is at present. He is 
also engaged in the development of a pump 
on which one patent has been allowed and 
another is pending. He has taken out pa- 
tents for steam separators and compound 
and triple-expansion engines. 

White, Maunsel (M.E., '79), has been with 
the Bethlehem Iron Co., Bethlehem, Pa., 
from 1879 to date. In 1887 he was appointed 
to his present position as engineer of tests. 
In conjunction with F. W. Taylor, M.E., '83, 
he presented a paper on " Colors of Heated 
Steel Corresponding to Different Degrees of 
Temperature " to the December, 1899, meet- 
ing of the American Society of Mechanical 
Engineers, of which he is a life member. He 
is also a member of the American Institute 
of Mining Engineers. 

White, William F. (M.E., '86), was with 
the Ames Iron Works, Oswego, N. Y., 1886- 
87; with John White, manufacturer and im- 
porter of machinery, Mexico, Mex., 1887-92; 
and engaged in the same business in the 
same city 1892-1902. He read a paper on 
" Alternating- Current Transformers from 
.the Station Manager's View-Point" before 
the American Institute of Electrical Engi- 
neers in 1898. 

Whiting-, Charles WilIcox.(M.E., '84), was 
born in Camden, N. J., April 8. 1863. He 
was draughtsman in the repair shops of the 
Philadelphia & Reading Coal & Iron Co., 
Pottsville, Pa., 1884-88, being engaged upon 
designs of engines and boilers and all kinds 
of mining machinery ; with E. D. Leavitt, Jr., 
Cambridgeport, Mass., 1888-91 : serving first 
as draughtsman ; then as inspector of con- 
struction of five Belpaire boilers, locomotive 
type, 90 inches inside diameter and 34 feet 
long, and designed to carry a working pres- 
sure of 185 pounds of steam; next as engi- 
neer of tests; and later as mechanical engi- 
neer in connection with the installation of 
new machinery at the Calumet & Hecla mine. 



Calumet, Mich.; with the Calumet & Hecla 
Mining Co., 1891-94, superintending the in- 
stallation of new machinery, conducting 
tests, etc. ; superintendent of the shops of 
Van Bergen & Co., Carbondale, Pa., 1894- 
96; with Eraser & Chalmers, Chicago, 111., 
1896-97, for a time designing large hoisting- 
engines for the Anaconda Copper Mining 
Co., of Montana, and later as superintendent, 




C. W. Whiting 

having charge of a branch of work including 
the pattern-shop, foundry, and boiler-shop, 
employing about 500 men ; with the E. P. 
Allis Co., Milwaukee, Wis., as engineer of 
the blowing-engine department, 1897-1900, 
during which period designs for several very 
large cross-compoimd vertical tandem blow- 
ing-engines, and numerous compressors of 
various types were prepared under his 
directions; was mechanical engineer with 
the Chicago, Milwaukee, & St. Paul Rail- 
road, West Milwaukee, Wis., 1900 ; works 
manager of the Broad Oaks Iron Works, 
Chesterfield, England, 1900-02; and was 
assistant general manager of the works of 
the British Westinghouse Electric & Manu- 
facturing Co., Trafford Park, Manchester, 
England, until recently. 

Mr. Whiting is the author of an article on 
" The Gravity Railroad of the Delaware & 
Hudson Canal Co.," which was published in 
Cassicr's Magazine in 1895 ; also of instruc- 
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chinery," and on " Hoisting and Hoisting 
Appliances," for the International Corre- 
spondence Schools of Scranton, Pa. He is a 
member of the American Society of Me- 
chanical Engineers ; and of the Delta Tau 
Delta fraternity. 

Mr. Whiting is the son of Stephen Betts 
and Kate Burr (Draper) Whiting. He is 
a lineal descendant in the male line, of Will- 
iam Whiting, who was named among " some 
of the principal characters who undertook in 
the year 1636 the work of settling Connecti- 
cut, and were the civil and religious fathers 
of the Colony." His father, S. B. Whiting, 
was also an engineer, and during the Civil 
War he built the " Koka," one of the light- 
draught monitors designed by the Navy De- 
partment, and _also the superstructure of the 
Chestnut Street Bridge, Philadelphia. He 
designed, built, and patented in 1866 the 
Whiting system of rope-driving, hauling, and 
hoisting machinery. The subject of this 
sketch married Mary Clinton, October 15, 
1889, and they have four children, Dorothy 
Clinton, Harold Clinton, Gertrude, and 
Helen Whiting. 



chanical Engineering in the South Dakota 
Agricultural College, Brookings, S. D., 1891- 
92 ; with the United Gas Improvement Co., 
Philadelphia, 1892-93; practised as consult- 
ing engineer at Cincinnati, O., 1893-95 ; was 
secretary and treasurer of the Miles Refrig- 
erating & Ice Co., Cincinnati, 1895-97; expert 
mechanical engineer and assistant to super- 
intendent of the National Carbon Co., Cleve- 
land, O., 1897-1902; and has been first as- 
sistant superintendent of the same company 
from 1902 to date. 

Jointly with Mr. Uriah M. White, he took 
out a patent for an improvement in an auto- 
graphic register in 1896, and in 1897 secured 
a patent for an improvement on drop-ham- 
mers. In 1891 Mr. Whitlock read a paper on 
boiler tests before the College Scientific Club 
of Brookings, S. D. He is a member of the 
American Society of Mechanical Engineers; 
of the American Electrochemical Society; 
and of the Electric Club of Cleveland. 

Mr. Whitlock is the son of Elisha S. and 
Sarah J. Whitlock. He married Lillian M. 
Drake (deceased 1899), in January, 1894, 
and Lily E. Jackgon, in January, 1904. 



Whitlock, Elliott Howland (M.E., '90), was 
born in Brooklyn, N. Y., May 5, 1867. He 




E. H. Whitlock 

was employed in the shops of the Pitts- 
burg, Cincinnati, & St. Louis Railroad, Co- 
lumbus, O., 1890-91; was Professor of Me- 




R. H. Whiti-ock 

Whitlock, Roger Haddock (M.E., '82), was 
born in Brooklyn, N. Y., July 15, i860. He 
was in the employ of the Graydon & Denton 
Manufacturing Co., Jersey City, N. J., 1882; 
in charge of the night school for appren- 
tices at the Brooks Locomotive Works, 



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Dunkirk, N. Y., 1882-83; and has been Pro- 
fessor of Mechanical Engineering at the 
State Agricultural and Mechanical College 
of Texas, College Station, Tex., since 1883. 

He superintended the installation of the 
steam plant of the college, consisting of 
waterworks, laundry, ice-factory, and elec- 
tric-lighting plant, and after putting these in 
operation continued to act as superintendent 
of the entire plant. On two occasions dur- 
ing his connection with this institution he 
has held the office of president pro tern. He 
is a member of the American Society of 
Mechanical Engineers. 

Mr. Whitlock is the son of Elisha S. and 
Sarah J. Whitlock. He married Effie Cable, 
December 25, 1894, and they have two chil- 
dren, Marjorie and Roger Haddock, Jr., 
Whitlock. 

^Whitman, Allen Earle (M.E., '96), was born 
in Brooklyn, N. Y., March 28, 1872; son of 
I. A. and Cecilia A. (Robinson) Whitman. 
He "prepared for college at the Brooklyn 
Polytechnic Institute and the Peekskill Mili- 
tary Academy. He was superintendent of 
construction for the Baldwin Engineering 

■ Co., New York, 1896-99. During the latter 
part of 1899 the Whitman Manufacturing 
Co. was incorporated, Mr. Whitman becom- 
ing vice-president and general manager, 
positions he still holds. The company 
started immediately to manufacture tools and 

. special machinery, with the B. & C. friction 
ckitch for gas and gasoline engines as a 
specialty, at their factory at Garwood, N. J. 
He is a member of the Beta Theta Pi fra- 
ternity, and of the Seawanhaka Corinthian 
Yacht Club. He was secretary of the latter, 
1900-01, and secretary of its race committee 
in 1902. 

Whitman, Paul S. (M.E., '97), was 
draughtsman in the gas-holder department of 
the Riter-Conley Co., Ingram, Pa., 1897-98; 
in the employ of the Keystone Bridge Works 
of the Carnegie Steel Co., Pittsburg, Pa.. 
1898-99; with the Brown Hoisting & Con- 
veying Machine Co., Cleveland, O., 1899- 
1902; and has been with the Cambria Steel 
Co., Johnstown, Pa., from 1902 to date. He 
is a member of the Civil Engineers' Club of 
Cleveland, O. ; and of the Tau Beta Pi fra- 
ternity. 



Whitney, Alfred Rutgers, Jr. (M.E., '90), 
was born in New York city June 16, 1868. 
Prior to entering Stevens Institute of Tech- 
nology he spent some time at the works 
of the Brooklyn Wire Nail Co. Upon grad- 
uation he entered the employ of the Portage 
Iron Co., Ltd., Duncansville, Pa., remaining 
with them for a little over a year, succes- 
sively working as shop-boy, lathe-hand, ma- 
chinist, puddler, time-keeper, shipping-clerk, 
and finally as assistant manager. During the 
ensuing year he constructed a seven-inch 
mill for the company. He had charge of 
all engineering work and organized a testing 
department. 

In 1891 he became general manager of 
the newly incorporated Puget Sound Wire 
Nail & Steel Co., Everett, Wash., and super- 
intended the designing and preparation of 
plans and specifications of the buildings and 
machinery, shipping the latter complete from 
New York, and, upon arrival at Everett, took 
charge of the work of construction and erec- 
tion. Upon completion he was chosen vice- 
president and increased the plant one-third. 

In 1892 he installed a temporary electric- 
light plant for the Everett Electric Light & 
Power Co., in connection with the plant of 
the Steel Co., and in 1893, upon the organi- 
zation and construction of the new plant of 
the Everett Railway & Electric Co., became 
manager, treasurei", and electrician of the 
company, operating a railway, power, and 
arc and incandescent light plant. 

During the Western engagements above 
mentioned he was also a director of the Ev- 
erett Land Co., and the Everett Pulp & 
Paper Co., allied interests. 

In 1896 he resigned his Western positions 
and returned to New York, where he became 
a partner in the firm of A. R. Whitney & Co., 
steel manufacturers, contractors and build- 
ers, and agents of the Carnegie Steel Co., 
Ltd., in which connection, among other pieces 
of work, he designed and constructed a rod. 
wire, and nail plant for the Portage Iron Co., 
Ltd., Duncansville, Pa. (described in " The 
Iron Age," December 15, 1896). In the fall 
of 1899 the firm disposed of its several manu- 
facturing plants to the then forming steel 
combinations, and, the senior members retir- 
ing from business, the new firm of A. R. 
Whitney, Jr., & Co. continued the engineer- 
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In June, 1902, he incorporated the firm of 
A. R. Whitney, Jr., & Co., continuing the 
business of general contracting and building, 
and at the present time is engaged in building 
construction throughout the world. Among 
recent constructions are the following : Sy- 
rian College, Beirut, Syria ; Gymnasium, St. 
Paul's School, Concord, N. H. ; American 
Smelting & Refining Co., Perth Amboy, N. J. ; 
the Consolidated Gas Co.'s building, the 
East Side Settlement Building, and the 
Twenty-third Street Young Men's Christian 
Association Building, New York, etc. He 
has recently received the general contract 
for the erection of the new Mutual Life In- 
surance Building, Mexico City, Mex. 

Mr. Whitney is a member of the Univer- 
sity, Union League, and New York Yacht 
clubs; of the Baltusrol Club; of Squadron 
A, National Guard of the State of New 
York, and of the Delta Tau Delta fraternity. 

Whitney, Oscar Carpenter (M.E., '92), was 
born in Jersey City, N. J., April 20, 1867. He 
has been employed by the Pintsch Compress- 
ing Co., New York, from 1892 to date; at 
first as draughtsman, in which capacity he, 
among other things, prepared the drawings 
for a gas plant in Philadelphia and superin- 
tended its construction. 

In December, 1892, he went to Boston as 
superintendent of operation of a plant in 
that city, where he remained until January, 
1894. A plant was built in Cambridge for 
the Boston & Maine Railroad in the fall of 
1893, of which he had the superintendence. 

Returning to the New York office, he was 
eng-aged on both inside and outside work, 
among which was the construction of a plant 
at New Haven, Conn., and laying pipe lines 
in Cincinnati. In 1896 and 1897 plants were 
constructed under his superintendence at 
Washington, D. C, Baltimore, Md., Pitts- 
burg, Pa., and Mobile, Ala. 

In December, 1897, Mr. Whitney was 
given the superintendence of the Manhattan 
plant supplying gas to the Manhattan Ele- 
vated Railway, a position involving the man- 
ufacture and distribution of gas and the care 
of the car equipment. In May, 1900, he was 
sent to Jersey City to build the plant supply- 
ing the Pennsylvania Railroad, and since 
its completion in July of the following year 
has continued to operate it, although spend- 



ing the greater part of his time at the New 
York office, and on the road inspecting the 
operation of the various 'plants manufactur- 
ing Pintsch gas as far west as Salt Lake 
City, Utah, and south to San Antonio, Texas. 
Mr. Whitney is the son of Franklin and 
Caroline S. (Wheeler) Whitney; and a di- 
rect descendant in the eighth generation of 
John and Eleanor Whitney, Puritan settlers 
in Watertown, Mass., and, in the fourth 
generation, of Joshua Whitney, who settled 
near the junction of the Chenango and Sus- 
quehanna rivers in New York State, and 
afterward became agent to Mr. Bingham and 
was instrumental in founding the city of 
Binghamton, N. Y. The subject of this 
sketch married Jessica E. Clark, November 
30, 1892, and they have two children. Homer 
Clark and Dorothy Whitney. 

Wilbor, Anson Gifford (M.E., '93), was 
born in Albany, N. Y., May 26, 1869. He 
was engaged in professional work at Albany, 
1893-94, making a specialty of heating, 
ventilating, and sewerage ; was instructor in 
chemistry, physics', and mathematics in the 
Albany Academy, 1894-95; inspector with 
the Mutual Fire Insurance Co. of New York, 
1895-96; and has been inspector with the 
Factory Insurance Association, Hartford, 
Conn., from 1896 to date. For a period of 
several years, ending in 1904, he had entire 
charge of the States of Georgia, Alabama, 
Mississippi, and Louisiana, with headquar- 
ters at Atlanta, Ga., his duties being to make 
regular inspections of all factories in liis ter- 
ritory which were insured in the Associa- 
tion; to adjust losses; to make plans and 
specifications for fire protection of new fac- 
tories, etc. He is still engaged as inspector 
but is located at Hartford, Conn. 

Mr. Wilbor is the son of Samuel, Jr., and 
Ella (Gifford) Wilbor. He married Fran- 
ces C. Gifford, June 29, 1898, and they have 
two children, Anson G., Jr., and Miriam 
Frances Wilbor. 

Wildman, Leonard Delacour (M.E., '90), 
was born in Danbury, Conn., October 13, 
1868; son of Alfred Nerum and Ella (Dela- 
cour) Wildman. His father's ancestors were 
English settlers in Connecticut about 1630; 
his mother's, French Huguenots who fled to 
Holland and arrived in America about 1618. 



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He was draughtsman and engineer with the 
Norwalk Iron Works Co., South Norwalk, 
Conn., 1890-97, during which time he was 




L. D. WiLDMAN 

connected with the installation of the dyna- 
mite guns on board the U.S.S. " Vesuvius; " 
the installation of the pneumatic plant on the 
U.S. monitor "Terror;" the installation of 
gas-compressors for pumping natural gas 
through the States of Ohio and Indiana ; and 
experimental work with compressors for the 
high pressures used with pneu- 
matic locomotives^ carbonic-acid- 
gas, and refrigerating machines. 

In 1898, before war was de- 
clared with Spain, Mr. Wildman 
was selected by the chief signal 
officer of the United States Army, 
for the position of aeronautical 
engineer to the Signal Corps. On 
the breaking out of the war he 
was appointed first lieutenant in ,; 

the Volunteer Signal Corps, and 
put in command of the second 
section of the Balloon Corps. He 
superintended the construction of 
the apparatus for the generation 
of hydrogen, and designed the plant for its 
compression and storage in Mannesman tubes 
at a pressure of 3,000 pounds per square inch. 
He was ordered to Tampa in May, 1898, to 
erect this plant and to prepare balloons. 

After recovering from typhoid fever he 



was ordered to Havana, Cuba, before the 
formal occupation of that city by the Ameri- 
cans, and there superintended the erection of 
military telegraph lines in the Provinces of 
Havana and Pinar del Rio. This work in- 
cluded the establishment of the city systems 
of telephone and telegraph in the city of 
Havana and in Camp Columbia. 

In May, 1899, he was appointed chief sig- 
nal officer on the staff of Maj.-Gen. Lee, 
and was shortly afterward sent to Governor's 
Island on the staff of Maj.-Gen. Merritt, and 
put in charge of the purchase of electrical 
machinery, Signal Corps supplies, and the 
outfitting of a machine-shop for the repair 
of Signal Corps material in the Philippines. 
In September of the same year he was de- 
tailed to represent the Signal Corps in Mr. 
Marconi's wireless telegraph experiments 
during the international yacht races. 

In October, 1899, Lieut. Wildman was or- 
dered to the Philippine Islands and placed in 
command of Company H, of the Signal 
Corps, with orders to establish telegraphic 
communications in the Department of the 
Visayas. In June, 1900, he was appointed 
chief signal officer of the Department of the 
Visayas on the staff of Brig.-Gen. Hughes. 




Air-Compressor, Norwalk Iron Works 
/,. D. Wildman 

In August, 1 90 1, he was detailed to the cable 
ship " Burnside," and with Capt. George O. 
Squier laid the Signal Corps cables connect- 
ing the southern islands. On the establish- 
ment of the Department of South Philip- 
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that Department on the staff of Brig.-Gen. 
Wade, in charge of the communications on 
all the islands of the archipelago south of the 
island of Luzon. On the passage of the Re- 
organization Bill of the Army, February 2, 

1901, he was transferred from the rank of 
first lieutenant U. S. Volunteer Signal Corps, 
to that of captain in the Signal Corps, United 
States Army. 

In March, 1901, he was put in command of 
the cable ship " Burnside," and afterward 
was made traffic manager for all the com- 
munications in the Philippine Islands. He 
was ordered to Washington in December, 

1902, by way of the Suez Canal, and placed 
in charge of the Telegraph and Examining 
Divisions of the Signal Corps, at headquar- 
ters, and conducted the experiments in wire- 
less telegraphy for the Army. He was subse- 
quently ordered to New London, Conn., on 
business pertaining to the electric installations 
of the Signal Corps, and is now located at 
Nome, Alaska, as chief of the wireless teleg- 
raphy branch of the Signal Corps. Since Au- 
gust, 1904, he has been operating his system 
successfully between stations no miles apart. 

Capt. Wildman is a member of the Amer- 
ican Society of Electrical Engineers; of the 
Army and Navy Club, at Manila and Wash- 
ington ; the United Service Club, Cebu, P. I. ; 
and of the Beta Theta Pi fraternity. 

Wiles, Edwin L. (M.E.. '76), was born in 
Grassy Point, N. Y., October 17, 1856; son 
of Alfred M. and Catherine Wiles. He was 
employed at the Brick Machinery Works, 
Stony Point, N. Y., 1876-78; was machinist, 
furnace helper, melter. and turn foreman 
with the Cambria Iron Co., Johnstown, Pa., 
1878-81 ; superintendent of the steel works 
of the Union Iron & Steel Co., Chicago, 111., 
1881-82; superintendent of the Springfield 
Iron Co., Springfield, 111.. 1882-86; and 
thence to date has been connected with the 
Riverside Iron Works, Wheeling, W. Va., 
serving as superintendent, assistant manager, 
and manager. Mr. Wiles is a member of the 
Engineers' Club of New York, and of the 
Duquesne Club of Pittsburg. 

Wilkes, James Renwick (M.E., '93), was 
born in Charlotte, N. C, July 10, 1871. He 
has been with the Mecklenburg Iron Works 
Co., Charlotte, N. C, from 1893 to date. He 



is a member of the Southern Manufacturers' 
and Elks clubs, of Charlotte, N. C, and of 
the Theta Xi fraternity. - 

Mr. Wilkes is the son of John and Jane 
Renwick Wilkes, and grandson of Rear-Adm. 




J, 



Wilkes 



Charles Wilkes, U.S.N. He married Caro- 
line Settle, November 18, 1896, and they 
have one child. Charles Wilkes. 




Wilkes, John Francis (M.E., '85), was 
born in Charlotte, N. C, May 20, 1864. In 



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1883 he took the degree of Bachelor of Phys- 
ics at the University of North Carolina. He 
has been superintendent of the Mecklenburg 
Iron Works at Charlotte from 1885 to date, 
his duties including the management of the 
business, travelling on special work, design- 
ing special machinery and buildings for 
machinery, etc. The works build princi- 
pally gold-mining and milling machinery and 
engines. He was for several years a mem- 
ber of the American Institute of Mining 
Engineers; the American Society of Mechan- 
ical Engineers; and the Elisha Mitchell 



Williams, Alonzo Rowland (M.E., '95), was 
born in Raleigh, N. C, February 11, 1869. 




J. F. Wilkes 

Scientific Society. He is a member of the 
North State Club; the Independent Order of 
Foresters ; the Vestry of the Episcopal 
Church ; and of the Alpha Tau Omega and 
Theta Nu Epsilon fraternities ; and is direc- 
tor of the Charlotte Public Library. 

Mr. Wilkes is the son of John and Jane 
Renwick Wilkes. He has married twice : the 
first time, October 7, 1891, and the second 
time, July 12, 1898, to Frances Mclver Lucas. 
Lhey have two children, John, Jr., and Car- 
rie Mclver Wilkes. 

Willett, Wallace (M.E., '96), was in the 
employ of the American Sugar Refining Co., 
Jersey City, N. J., 1896-99 ; engaged on the 
trade journal of the sugar industry. New 
York, 1899-1900; and has been in the broker- 
age business, New York, from 1900 to date. 




A. R. Williams 

At the age of thirteen he began serving an 
apprenticeship as machinist in Raleigh, N. C. 
which was completed in the Wilmington & 
Weldon Railroad shops. He ran a locomo- 
tive on the Atlantic Coast Line for two 
years, resigning as locomotive engineer in 
1889 to study at the Stevens Preparatory 
School. While a student he was regularly 
employed by the Department of Tests at the 
Institute. Since graduation he has been with 
the T. A. & R. G. Gillespie Co. as engineer 
on water supply for Newark, N. J., 1895-96; 
with the Underwriters at American Lloyds, 
New York, as chief inspector, 1897-99; and 
with Hall & Henshaw, United States mana- 
gers of the Union Assurance Society and the 
Law, Union, & Crown Insurance Co., both 
of London, and of the State Insurance Co. 
of Liverpool, from 1899 to date, being 
special agent at Milwaukee, Wis. He is a 
member of the Brotherhood of Locomotive 
Engineers ; the Knights of Pythias ; the 
National Fire Protection Association ; and 
has served on a number of important in- 
surance committees. He is also a member 
of the Masonic Order, and of the Theta Nu 
Epsilon fraternity. 

Mr. Williams is the son of John R. and 
Corina Morehead Williams, both families be- 
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lina. He married Margarett Louise Taylor, 
November 7, 1900. 

Williams, Frank H. (M.E., "Si), is secre- 
tary and treasurer of the Dubuque Turbine 
& Roller Mill Co., Dubuque, Iowa. 

Williams, Harold Edward (M.E., '00), was 
born in Newark, N. J., April 24, 1877; son 
of Charles E. and Margaret R. Williams. He 
was draughtsman for the Starr Engineering 
Co., New York, 1900-01 ; at the McKees- 
port mills of the National Tube Co., U. S. 




H. E. Williams 

Steel Corporation, igoi-04; and has since 
been in the sales department of the company 
at the Chicago office. He is a member of 
the Chi Psi fraternity. 

Williams, Harvey D. (M.E., '85), was born 
in Shaftsbury, Vt., February 24, 1864; son 
of Lewis and Sarah Sleeper Williams. He 
was draughtsman with the Emery Scale & 
Testing Machine Co., Stamford, Conn., 
1885-86; and designer for the Yale & Towne 
Manufacturing Co., in the same city, 1886- 
88. During the latter period he designed the 
portable self-sustaining hoist since known to 
the trade as the " Triplex Pulley Block," 
which has an efficiency of 79 per cent. 
Previous to that time the efficiencies of such 
hoists ranged from 20 to 50 per cent. 

In 1888 he became connected with Sibley 



College, Cornell University, Ithaca, N. Y., 
as Instructor in Mechanical Drawing, from 
which he was advanced to the position of 
Assistant Professor of Machine Design. 
During the summers of 1891 and 1892 he 
visited various technical schools and univer- 
sities in Great Britain, on the Continent, in 
the United States and Canada. He resigned 
his position at Cornell in 1898. At that time 
he was engaged in the design and construc- 
tion of a complete line of machinery to pro- 
duce a new article of manufacture. 

He was next, for a short time, with Mr. 
A. H. Emery, of Stamford, Conn., assisting 
in the design of a coast-defence disappearing 
gun-carriage. In July, 1899, he was engaged 
in the Bureau of Steam Engineering of the 
Navy Department at Washington, D. C, and 
has recently received the appointment of 
Ordnance Engineer, U.S.N., a new post re- 
cently created by act of Congress. 

He has been granted United States patents 
for a changeable color illusion device ; a uni- 
versal ratchet drill — an application of a new 
mechanical movement whereby a surface- 
contact mechanism, is substituted for the 
usual bevel-gears ; a new method of govern- 




II. D. Williams 

ing water wheels and motors, by which the 
energy usually wasted because of incorrect 
speed is utilized to open and close the gate 
(description published in the " Sibley Jour- 
nal," March, 1896) ; a stamped sheet-metal 



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bucket for water wheels and motors and 
steam turbines of the free deviation type; 
and a double universal joint. 

Following a natural inclination, Mr. Wil- 
liams has been much occupied with theoreti- 
cal and experimental investigations, some of 
which have yielded results of practical value, 
and these have been sold to interested par- 
ties. Among the subjects to which he has 
given attention are the following : 

Experiments with kites, in which he de- 
veloped the box form or cellular kite, inde- 
pendently of, but subsequent to, Mr. Har- 
greaves. 

Investigation of the motion of thin revolv- 
ing bodies in air, the results of which show 
that the ideal path of one form of boomerang 
in a frictionless medium is like a figure 8 
drawn on the under surface of a sphere. 

Determination of the theoretical relations 
that should exist between the diameter of 
wheel, diameter of jet, number of buckets, 
and position of jet in free deviation wheels 
of the Pelton type. 

The effect of combined heat and pressure 
on amorphous carbon. These experiments, 
which were suggested by the peculiar geo- 
logical formation of the South African dia- 
mond fields, were discontinued on the publi- 
cation by Prof. Henri Moisson of results 
obtained along the same lines. 

The hydroplane, a self-propelling model 
craft, (exhibited at Sheldrake-on-Cayuga in 
1895) designed to skim along the surface of 
water in the manner of the skipping-stone, 
and of which a descriptive article was pub- 
lished in the " Sibley Journal," Vol. IX. 

A novel form of steam turbine (designed, 
built, and tested in 1894-95) having a capa- 
city of 20 horse-power, a speed of 16,000 
revolutions per minute, and an efficiency of 
20 pounds of steam per brake horse-power ; 
the brake used in testing the turbine being 
a smooth metal disk revolving in water. 

In 1895 he constructed a lens to correct 
the optical defects of the human eye when 
immersed in water, and at the same time not 
to interfere with seeing in the air. 

In 1893 he published for the use of his 
students " A Sixty-Hour Course in Kinema- 
tic Drawing." 

He has made use of the strict mathemati- 
cal conception of " Degrees of Freedom and 
Constraint " in the study of mechanical move- 



ments. He is of opinion that the subjects of 
mechanics and kinematics as applied to ma- 
chinery need to be entirely rewritten from 
the point of view of the system of coordinates 
which is elaborated in Sir Robert Ball's great 
mathematical work " Theory of Screws." 

His most recent published article, describ- 
ing a rational method of comparing the rela- 
tive magnitudes of line and point contacts, 
appeared in the " American Machinist " of 
February 10, 1903. Other articles, the out- 
growth of his work in the Bureau of Steam 
Engineering, have appeared from time to 
time in the " Journal of the American So- 
ciety of Naval Engineers." 

Mr. Williams is a member of the Chi Psi 
and Sigma Psi fraternities. 

Williamson, George Danforth (M.E., 97), 
was born in Jersey City, N. J., February 11, 




G. D. Williamson 

1876; son of J. Q. Aymar and Elizabeth 
(Henderson) Williamson. He was with the 
Consolidated Gas Co., New York, 1898- 
1900; was inspector for the Middle States 
Inspection Bureau, New York, 1900-02; and 
is now with Woodward & Williamson, in- 
surance agents, Jersey City, N. J. His work 
includes the examination of boilers, engines, 
shafting, dynamos, motors, etc., testing of 
fire appliances and automatic sprinkler equip- 
ments, and inspection of special hazards. He 
is a member of the Chi Psi fraternity. 



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Williamson, James Abeel (M.E., '97), was 
born in Jersey City, N. J., May 13, 1875. He 
was in the employ of Colgate & Co-, soap 
manufacturers, Jersey City, N. J., 1897 ! con- 
structing engineer with Charles H. Davis, 
New York, 1898; and has been with the 
Isbell-Porter Co., manufacturers of refriger- 
ating machinery and gas works apparatus, 
Newark, N. J., from 1898 to date. He is a 
charter member of the University Club of 
Hudson County, and a member of the Chi 
Psi fraternity. 

Mr. Williamson is the son of James Rut- 
sen and Nellie Alford Williamson. His an- 
cestors came to New York about 1650 fi'om 
Amsterdam, Holland, and have always lived 
on Long Island or in New Jersey. He mar- 
ried Helen Van Wyck, October 29, 1902. 

Willis, C. Addison (M.E., '89), was with 
the Maryland Steel Co., 1889-91 ; at the Cam- 
den Iron Works, Camden, N. J., 1891-92; In- 
structor in Mechanical Engineering at the 
University of Pennsylvania, 1892-94; and 
has been Professor of Mathematics at Girard 
College, Philadelphia, from 1894 to date. 

Willis, Edward J. (M.E., '88), was born 
in Savannah, Ga., April i, 1866. He was 
assistant chemist in the State Agricultural 
Department, Richmond, Va., 1888-90; treas- 
urer of the Richmond Mica Co., Richmond, 
1893-95 • general manager of the Talbot & 
Sons Co.'s Machine Works, Richmond, 1895- 
96; superintendent of the Richmond Trac- 
tion Co., 1896-99, in which capacity he de- 
signed and superintended the erection of the 
power-house machinery and had charge of 
the operation of the road. In 1899 he be- 
came steam and electrical engineer for the 
Virginia Railway & Electric Co., Richmond, 
and had charge of the steam and electric de- 
signing of that company in its 8,000 horse- 
power plant and distributing system. In 
1900 he became president of the Richmond 
Electric Co., manufacturers of electric ma- 
chinery, Richmond, which position he holds 
at this date. He is also professionally em- 
ployed on the Fredericksburg (Va.) munici- 
pal plant; for the Clifton Forge Light & 
Water Co., etc., making designs and having 
charge of installations. 

He has received three United States pat- 
ents upon an improved form of planimeter 



for determining areas, mean pressures, and 
horse-power, and also, an English patent 
dated February 13, 1895. It was favorably 
commented upon at a meeting of the Ameri- 
can Society of Mechanical Engineers. He 
has also patented an improved horse-power 
planimeter which was described and illus- 
trated in the American Machinist, 1900. 

He has contributed many articles to techni- 
cal journals, among which are the following: 

"Efficiencies of Mechanical and Electrical 
Machines," Cassicr's Magazine, VII. 

"Old and New Methods with the Indicator," 
Machinery, 1894. 

"Energy Equivalents," American Machinist, 

1895- 

"A Horse-Power Planimeter," Transactions 
of the American Society of Mechanical Engineers, 
XVI. 

"Practical Use of Water Rheostats," Ameri- 
can Electrician, 1898. 

"Test of a 300-Kilowatt Direct Connected 
Railway Unit at Different Loads," Transactions 
of the American Institute of Electrical Engineers, 
1899, 

"On the Natural Unit of the Planimeter," 
Stevens Institute Indicator, 1902. 

He is a member of the American Society 
of Mechanical Engineers ; the American In- 
stitute of Electrical Engineers ; the Engi- 
neers' Club of New York ; the Commonwealth 
Club of Richmond, Va. ; and of the Chi Phi 
fraternity. 

Mr. Willis is the son of John Pembroke 
and Mary (Willis) Jones. He changed his 
name from Jones to Willis, by order of court, 
in 1882. He married Bessie Fauntleroy, Oc- 
tober 10, 1900, and they have one child, 
Francis T. Willis. 

Willis, Paul (M.E., '85), was in the em- 
ploy of the Wallace Iron Works, Jersey City, 
N. J., 1885-86; with Mr. Geo. S. Morrison, 
as inspector for his work in shops and mills,. 
1886-90; and later organized, in connec- 
tion with Mr. F. W. Barker, the Kenwood 
Bridge Co., Chicago, 111., of which he has 
been secretary and engineer from 1899 to 
date. 

Wilson, Arthur (M.E., '99), was born in 
South Orange, N. J., August 21, 1876; son of 
Daniel and Julia A. Wilson. He was em- 
ployed in the Department of Tests at the 
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Murphy, engineers, New York, 1899-1900; 
assistant to the manager of the Gas & Elec- 
tric Co., Norristown, Pa., 1900-01; with the 
Waclark Wire Co., Elizabeth, N. J., 1901-03 ; 
and has been with the Federal Refining Co., 
New York, from 1903 to date. 

Wilson, William Richardson (M.E., '96), 
was born in Norfolk, Va., in 1874; son of 
Tames R. and Angeline Perkins Wilson. He 
was inspector witJk the Edison Electric Illum- 
inating Co., New York, 1896; draughtsman 
in the master mechanics' department of the 
PencoA'd Iron Works, Philadelphia, Pa., 
1896; filled a similar position with the Wat- 
son-Stillman Co., New York, 1896-99; was 
in the sales department of the C. W. Hunt 
Co., New York, 1899.-1900; with the Wheeler 
Condenser & Engineering Co., New York, 
1900-04 ; and is now salesman for the Al- 
berger Condenser Co., New York. He is a 



gines and boilers, 1891-92; draughtsman 
with the Link-Belt Engineering Co., New 
York, 1892; and was in partnership with Mr. 
John Darby (M.E., '91), at Hartford, Conn., 




W. R. Wilson 

junior member of the American Society of 
Mechanical Engineers. 

Wolcott, Henry Augustus (M.E., '91), was 
born in Lynn, Mass., August 6, 1866. He 
left school when fifteen years of age, worked 
about a year as office-boy, and then four 
years as assistant in a store. He prepared 
for Stevens Institute with a private tutor. 
He was in the employ of Frank McSwegan 
& Sons, New York, selling and erecting en- 




H. A. Wolcott 

1892-98. Their work embraced electrical, 
mechanical, and civil engineering. Since 
1898, when Mr. Darby became connected 
with the Pope Manufacturing Co., Mr. Wol- 
cott has conducted the business alone. The 
nature of his work has been of a varied 
character, embracing, besides the branches 
otherwise mentioned, sewer work, the prepa- 
ration of large topographical maps, maps for 
court exhibits, division of land, and general 
surveying. In 1895 he acted as constructing 
engineer for the Pope Tube Co. during the 
erection of their new plant at Hartford. In 
1897 he spent ten months in England intro- 
ducing patented machinery. Since 1899 he 
has spent nearly all his time upon laboratory 
experiments on atmospheric resistance, high- 
speed bearings, and strengths of certain 
fastenings in frame structures ; in the latter 
work designing and superintending the con- 
struction of the machines used in the experi- 
ments. In 1902 he designed and erected two 
large factory buildings for the Whittock 
Coil Pipe Co. at Elmwood, Conn., and subse- 
quently entirely reorganized the cost-keep- 
ing system for a factory employing over 600 
hands and having fourteen departments. He 
is now works-manager for the Whittock 



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company. He is a member of the American 
Society of Mechanical Engineers, and the 
Connecticut Society of Civil Engineers. 

Mr. Wolcott is the son of Peter and Har- 
riet B. Wolcott. He married Susan Law- 
rence, February 22, 1895, and they have 
three children, Ruth, Henry Freeman, and 
Lawrence Wolcott. 

Wolff, A. F. T. (M.E., '01), was Instructor 
during the Supplementary Term at Stevens 
Institute, 1901 ; and has been Assistant ii^ 
the Department of Tests at the Institute from 
1901 to date. 

Wolff, Alfred R. (M.E., '76), soon after 
o-raduation, became assistant to Charles E. 




A. R. Wolff 

Emery, C.E., and assistant engineer in the 
United States Revenue Marine. He was 
thus employed until 1880, when he estab- 
lished himself in New York as a practising 
consulting engineer. He has made a spe- 
cialty of the design and installation of power, 
heating, and ventilating plants, among which 
may be mentioned : The Carnegie Building, 
Pittsburg, Pa. ; the Chamber of Commerce 
Building, Rochester, N. Y. ; the Brooklyn 
Institute of Arts and Sciences ; the Prince- 
ton Library ; the Bank of Montreal ; and the 
following buildings in New York city : the 
Hanover National Bank of Commerce, Blair, 
and Speyer bank buildings ; the New York 



Clearing House; the New York Life Insur- 
ance, Metropolitan Life' Insurance, Chamber 
of Commerce, Empire, Johnston, Presbyter- 
ian, United Charities, American Lithographic 
Co., and New York Stock Exchange build- 
ings; the Hall of Records; Columbia Uni- 
versity, New York University, New York 
Herald, and Appellate Court buildings ; Car- 
negie Music Hall, Teachers' College, Cornell 
Medical College, Mount Sinai Hospital, and 
the Lying-in Hospital ; the Waldorf-Astoria, 
Sherry's, Delmonico's, and St. Regis hotels 
and restaurants ; the Siegel-Cooper and 
Gimbel Bros.' department stores ; the Met- 
ropolitan, Racquet, Century, Mendelssohn 
Glee, Freundschaft, Young Men's Christian 
Association, New York Athletic and Yale 
ckib buildings ; the Cornelius Vanderbilt, 
John Jacob Astor, and Andrew Carnegie 
residences ; and other large office and public 
buildings and residences. 

Mr. Wolff is the author of " The Windmill 
as a Prime Mover," the " Ventilation of 
Buildings," " The Heating of Large Build- 
ings," etc. He is a member of the American 
Society of Mechanical Engineers and of the 
Engineers' Club, New York. He was 
.\lunmi Trustee of the Stevens Institute of 
Technology from 1893 to 1896, and has been 
Permanent Trustee of the Institute since 1900. 

Wolff, John (M.E., '88), was born in 
Brooklyn, N. Y., December 10, 1866; son of 
Frederick Nicholas and Margaret Wolff. He 
was in the employ of the Edison Electric 
Illuminating Co., Brooklyn. N. Y., 1888-98, 
Ijcing superintendent of their steam plants 
during two years of this period ; his duties 
principally requiring surveillance of the oper- 
ation and maintenance of the various steam 
plants. He also acted in the capacity of con- 
sulting and constructing engineer when addi- 
tions were made to these plants. He was with 
the American Stoker Co., Brooklyn, N. Y., 
1898-1902; when he became chief engineer 
and purchasing agent of the Pennsylvania S: 
Mahoning Valley Railway Co., with head- 
quarters at Youngstown, O., having super- 
vision of the various plants, and charge of all 
construction work. He is now with the Cleve- 
land Electric Illuminating Co., Cleveland, O. 

Wood, Arthur Julius (M.E., '96), was born 
in Roseville, N. J., September 3, 1874; son of 



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De A^olson and Frances Hartson Wood. He 
was on the editorial staff of the Railroad Ga- 
zette, 1896-1900, acting as associate editor 
for the last three years of this period. While 
connected with this paper he gave most of 
his attention to electric railroads and me- 
chanical engineering subjects, the latter 
including principally compressed air, gas en- 
gines, and thermodynamics. He was In- 
structor in Mechlinical Engineering at the 
Worcester Polytechnic Institute, Worcester, 
Mass., 1900-02 ; Professor of Mechanical and 
Electrical Engineering, Delaware College, 
Newark, Del., 1902-04; and is now Assistant 
Professor of Experimental Engineering at 
Pennsylvania State College, State College, Pa. 
He has presented a number of printed dis- 
cussions on " Studies in Acceleration of 
Trains," in the Railroad Gazette^ 1897 and 
1899, and in the Stcz'Ciis Inslitiitc Indicator, 

1899. He is the author of papers on 
" Compressed Air Motors," published in the 
Railroad Gazette, 1896, 1897, 1899, and the 
Mechanical Engineer, 1899; on "Electric 
Conduit Roads," Railroad Ga::ettc, 1897 ; and 
on " Compound I'S. Triple-Expansion Steam 
Engines," published in the Railroad Gazette, 

1900. He made investigations in the subject 




Mechanics," by De Volson Wood. Pie is a 
member of the Society for the Promotion of 
Engineering Education, serving as member 
of council of this Society, 1899-1902; a 
junior member of the American Society of 
Mechanical Engineers; and an associate 
member of the American Institute of Elec- 
trical Engineers. 

Wood, Everett Norton (M.E., '97), was 
l)orn in Kutstown, Pa., September 29, 1876; 




of hydraulic rams, and prepared articles 
thereon which appeared in the Stevens In- 
stitute Indicator, 1898 and 1902. In 1902 
he re-edited (loth edition) "Elementary 



E.N. Wood 

son of Prof. H. A. Wood. He was with 
Riley Bros, (stereopticons), New York, 
1897-99; ^"d has been in the employ of the 
Merritt & Chapman Derrick & Wrecking Co., 
New York, from 1899 to date, now holding 
the position of chief constructing engineer 
and purchasing agent. 

Wood, Frederick Harlow (M.E., '93), was 
born in Concord, Mass., October 2, 1871 ; son 
of David H. and Lydia H. Wood. His ances- 
tors on both sides took part in the battle at 
Concord, April 19, 1775. He won the Ste- 
vens scholarship in a class of sixty members. 

Owing to ill health at the close of his col- 
lege course he was unable to take up the 
work for which he had so well fitted himself. 
He went to California, hoping to restore his 
strength which was being undermined by a 
lung trouble. The expected relief proving 
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Montclair, N. J., where he spent the last 
years of his life in study and in planning a 
house embodying new features in design. A 
photograph of this building was one of the 




F. H. Wood 

exhibits at the Institute's Twenty-fifth Anni- 
versary Exhibition. Mr. Wood died Sep- 
tember 2, 1897. 

Woodbridge, J. Lester (M.E., '86), was em- 
ployed in the Engineering Laboratory ot 
Stevens Institute, 1886, and in tlie engineer- 
ing department of the Edison 
Electric Light Co., New 
York, 1887-88. In the lat- 
ter year he organized and be- 
came a partner in the firm of 
Woodbridge & Turner, estab- 
lished for carrying on electric 
railway construction and en- 
gineering, and in 1891 this 
partnership was merged into 
the Woodbridge & Turner 
Engineering Co._, Mr. Wood- 
bridge becoming secretary 
and treasurer. In 1898 this 
corporation was dissolved, 
and Mr. Woodbridge opened 
an office as consulting engi- 
neer in New York, and con- 
tinued this until the spring 
of 1898, when he took a posi- 
tion as engineer of the Bos- 



ton office of the Electric Storage Battery 
Co. In January, 1900, he was transferred 
to the principal office of the company at 
Philadelphia, as engineer of the sales de- 
partment, in which capacity he has been em- 
ployed up to the present time. He has taken 
out patents on improvements in the " boos- 
ter " system for long-distance transmission; 
on electrical distribution; means for regu- 
lating double-current dynamo machines ; and 
on a method of regulating double-current 
dynamo-electric machines, 1901. In 1897 he 
read a paper before the Electrical Section of 
the Brooklyn Institute on the subject " From 
Coal to the Trolley," and in the fall of 1897 
a paper before the Electrical Section of the 
Franklin Institute, Philadelphia, on " The 
Booster System as Applied to Electric Rail- 
ways ;" and also contributed an article on 
" The Economy of the Booster " to the Street 
Raihvay Jounial, 1898. 

Woodman, Durand (B.S., '80; Ph.D., '87), 
was born in New York city September 16, 
1859. He took a special two-year course in 
chemistry and physics after having com- 
pleted the regular studies of the first two 
years^of the Institute's course, at the end of 
which time he was awarded the Priestley 
prize in chemistry. In 1887 the Stevens In- 
stitute conferred upon him the degree of 
Doctor of Philosophy. 

During the winter after graduation he 




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acted as volunteer assistant to Dr. A. R. 
Leeds with classes in the Analytical Labora- 
tory. From 1881 to 1883 he was associated 
with Dr. Henry Wurtz in his second sanitary 
chemical investigation of the Passaic River 
water, made for the city of Paterson, N. J. 
A detailed smnmary of the work was pub- 
lished in the " Engineering and Mining Jour- 
nal " of April 26, ^890. 

From 1883 to 1884 he was connected with 
the office of William Farmer, gas engineer, 
New York, thus supplementing the chemis- 
try of gas manufacture with an intimate 
knowledge of gas works construction and 
gas engineering practice. 

From 1884 to 1886 he occupied the position 
of chemist in the experimental laboratory of 
the United States Electric Light Co., New- 
ark, N. ]., which was then under the 
direction of Mr. Edward Weston, and for 
whom he conducted investigations of the 
action of various gases on the filaments of 
the incandescent lamp; and of vapors of 
many of the rarer elements and compounds 
with regard to perfecting the vacuum. He 
also made an extended investigation of 
alloys in general, and the manganese-copper 
alloys in particular, which subsequently de- 
veloped into the Weston constant resistance 
alloy, for which a patent was granted. 

Li October, 1886, he opened a laboratory 
for analytic and experimental chemical work 
in Newark, among the patrons of which 
were the Electrical Accumulator Co., the 
United States Electric Light Co., the Edison 
Lamp Works, the Weston Laboratory & In- 
strument Co., the United Gas Improvement 
Co., the Citizens' Gas Co., and others. For 
some time special attention was given 
to the chemistry and preparation of the 
Clark standard of electro-motive force, and 
a set of these standard cells, prepared 
for the Edison laboratory in January, 
1888, agreed with each other six months 
later within 0.00012 volt, or about 0.009 
per cent, at the same temperature. Two 
of these cells, set up under the care of Dr. 
Alexander Muirhead, of London, also agreed 
with each other within o.oooio volt at one 
temperature. The difference between the 
electro-motive force of the London and New- 
ark cells was within 0.00014 volt, or 0.028 per 
cent, all at the same temperature, and the 
mean difference was about 0.00025 volt ex- 



cess on the side of the London cells. See 
the "Electrician" (London), June 29, 1888. 
In September, 1889, Dr. Woodman went 
to Germany and took a course in organic 
chemistry at the University of Berlin, under 
Prof. A. W. von Hofmann, and also 
studied the methods of Fresenius at his 
laboratory in Wiesbaden. While at Berlin 
he visited many of the large chemical manu- 
facturing establishments in the vicinity, — the 
Anilin Color, Bleaching, and Dye Works, 
Rubber Works, Kahlbaum's Chemical Manu- 
facturing- Industry, etc. He was invited by 




DuRAND Woodman 

Prof. Hofmann to represent the American 
Chemical Society by reading the congratu- 
latory letter of its president at the Twenty- 
fifth Anniversary celebration of the Kekule 
benzol ring theory, which occurred March 
II, 1890, in the city hall at Berlin. 

On his return from Germany he reopened 
his laboratory in New York, where he has 
continued in practice as analytic and consult- 
ing chemist, giving much attention to techni- 
cal and industrial problems. In 1896 the oils 
used and the gases produced by the Pintsch 
process were investigated for the Pintsch 
Compressing Co. at their plants in and 
around New York. 

In 1899 an investigation of the gases ex- 
isting in the subways under the streets of 
New York was made for the Consolidated 
Telegraph & Electric Subway Co. ; also of the 



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composition and character of insulated wire 
coverings, for the Edison Electric Illuminat- 
ing Co. During 1900-01 complete analyses 
of feed water and boiler scale were made 
for the New York, Ontario, & Western Rail- 
way, for the Cheney Manufacturing Co., and 
others. Special varnishes and " metal coat- 
ings " were analysed and tested for the R. 
W. Hunt Co., and in a patent suit concern- 
ing the chemical treatment of cordage for 
waterproofing and weighting his services 
were retained through their attorneys by the 
Standard Rope & Twine Co. Since 1898 he 
has acted as chemical examiner of oils, 
paints, and other supplies for the United 
States Light-House Establishment, and has 
prepared special experimental fuses for igni- 
tion by percussion in the compressed-air 
chamber of high-speed torpedoes for the 
United States Naval Torpedo Station at 
Newport, R. I. 

He was secretary of the American Chem- 
ical Society for two years, and, after the 
reorganization of the Society and establish- 
ment of local sections, was secretary and 
treasurer of the New York section, from 
1895 to 1901. 

His contributions to literature include a 
number of short articles which were pub- 
lished in scientific and other journals; 
among which are : 

"Note on Lead Poisoning by Carbonated 
Beverages." Journal of the American Chemical 
Society, XI. 

"Systematic Inspection of Wells in Cities and 
Towns." Ibid.. XIII. 

"On Three Samples of Crude Petroleum." 
Ibid., XIII. 

"An Apparatus for Heating Sealed Tubes." 
Ibid., XIII. 

"Analysis of Glass Used in the Manufacture 
of Electric Lamps." Ibid., XIV. 

"Note on Denitration of Pyroxylin." Ibid., 
XIV. 

"Oil Gas Tar." American Gas Light Journal, 
January 8, 1894. 

"Valuation of Puritier Oxide." Ibid., Janu- 
ary 29, 1894. 

' ' Variations in the Composition of Red Lead. ' ' 
Journal of the American Chemical Society, XIX. 

He served two years as Alumni Trustee of 
the Stevens Institute, and is a member of the 
American Chemical Society ; the Society of 
Chemical Industry, London; the Deutsches 
Chemische Gesellschaft, Berlin; the Verein 



Deutscher Chemiker ; and of the Chemists' 
Club, New York. 

Dr. Woodman is the son of George and 
Lucy M. Durand Woodman. He married 
Katherine Lincoln Bowles, October 3, 1893. 

Woodward, Arthur C. (M.E., '96), has 
been with A. & F. Brown, builders of power- 
transmission machinery, Elizabethport, N. J., 
from 1896 to date. 

Woolsey, Arthur Eugene (M.E., '95), was 
born in Jersey City, N. J., August 31, 1874. 
He has been with the Illinois Steel Co., South 
Chicago, III, from 1895 to date, having held 
the following positions : clerk in the plate-mill, 
1895-1900; night superintendent, 1900-01; 
and since then, superintendent of the plate- 
mill. 

Mr. Woolsey is the son of Charles W. and 
Ella E. (Washburn) Woolsey. He married 
Emily A. Cox, December 26, 1895, and they 
have two children, Katherine and Louise 
Condict Woolsey. 

Woolson, Clifford Griggs (M.E., '96), was 
born in Newark, N. J., July 9, 1874; son of 
Orosco C. and Edith H. Woolson. He is 
descended on his father's side through a 




C. G. Woolson 

continuous line of American mechanics or 
engineers since the latter part of the 17th 
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erecting- floor of J. S. Mundy, builder of 
hoisting-engines, etc., Newark, N. J., 1896- 
97; draughtsman with the A. A. Griffing Co., 
Jersey City, N. J., engaged on heating and 
ventilating work, and draughtsman with H. 
de B. Parsons, consulting engineer and ma- 
rine architect, New York, 1897-98. From 
the latter employment he resigned to enter the 
United States Navy, and during the war with 
Spain received a commission as assistant en- 
gineer with the relative rank as ensign, and 
was detailed at the Brooklyn Navy Yard in 
the Bureau of Steam Engineering, being 
engaged on construction work on the " Chi- 
cago," " Atlanta," " Texas," " Iowa," and 
" Topeka." He was a member of the board 
appointed to make tests and report on the 
evaporative performance of the distilling-ship 
" Rainbow." He was assistant engineer with 
the Union Bridge Co., engaged in the con- 
struction of two steel coal-sheds for the Unit- 
ed States government at Key West, and two 
at Dry Tortugas, Fla., 1899-1900; draughts- 
man with the Patten Vacuum Ice Co., New 
York, 1900; assistant engineer with the Rob- 
ins Conveying Belt Co., New York; with the 
E. F. Dupont Powder Co., of Wilmington, 
Del., and is now with the Baltimore Copper 
Smelting & Rolling Co., Baltimore, Md. 




H. T. WOOLSON 



son. He was draughtsman with the Na- 
tional Meter Co., Brooklyn, N. Y., 1897- 
98, and when the Spanish war broke out he 
enlisted, being- a member of the New Jersey 
Naval Reserve, and served for five months 
in the engineering corps aboard the United 
States auxiliary cruiser, " Badger." After 
the war was over he returned to the National 
Meter Co., where he remained a few months, 
and then went with the Gas Engine & Power 
Co., and Charles L. Seabury & Co., Consoli- 
dated, Morris Heights, N. Y., where he has 
since been employed in designing and 
draughting on torpedo-boat and yacht engine 
work, also in boiler and engine testing. He 
is now chief draughtsman of the engineering 
department. He is an associate member of 
the American Society of Naval Engineers. 

Wortendyke, Ira F. (M.E., '89), was bom 
m Pascack, N. J., September 16, 1868. He 




Woolson, Harry Thurber (M.E., '97), was 
born in Wallington, N. J., September 20, 
1876; son of George C. and Sarah M. Wool- 



I. F. Wortendyke 

has been in the employ of the United 
Gas Improvement Co., Philadelphia, from 
1889 to date, representing its interests in the 
following capacities: assistant superintendent 
at the Jersey City Gas Works, 1893; and 
since 1894 superintendent of the New Gas 
Light Co., Janesville, Wis. He is a member 
of the American Gas Light Association. 

Mr. Wortendyke is the son of Frederick 
F. and Effie (De Baun) Wortendyke. He 
married Parepa Rosa Neer, June 26, 1899, 



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and they have one child, Freda Louise Wor- 
tendyke. 

Worth, Barzillai Gardner, Jr. (M.E., 'oi), 
was born in Cresskill, N. J., June 5, 1880. 
He constructed a small working model of a 
stationary slide-valve engine from original 
designs before leaving the public school. He 
was with the Schlicht Combustion Process 
Co., New York, 1901, in charge of the ex- 
periments with regenerative Welsbach gas 
burners. He secured an economy of 75 c.p. 
with a consumption of 2^- cubic feet of gas 
per hour. As chief draughtsman with the 
Union Subway Construction Co., New York, 
he designed the subway crossing of the Bronx 
River, 1901. He is now constructing engi- 
neer with Mr. Walter Kidde, engineer and 
contractor. New York, for whom he has had 
charge of the design and construction of a 
special electrical power and light equipment, 
and other steam and electrical work. 

Mr. Worth is the son of Archibald C. and 
Elizabeth (Anderson) Worth. He married 
Mabel Demarest Palmer, December 20, 1899. 

Wreaks, Charles F. (M.E., '89), was born in 
Jersey City, N. J., January 16, 1868. He was 
with the Edison Machine Works, Schenec- 
tady, 1889-91 ; and is now a member of the 
firm of Walker & Hughes, average-adjusters 
and insurance-brokers, New York. 

He is a member of the Down Town Asso- 
ciation and the Reform Club, New York; of 
the Maltano and Suburban clubs in Eliza- 
beth ; and of the Theta Xi fraternity. 

Mr. Wreaks is the son of Charles F. and 
Mary K. Wreaks. He married Alice Gum- 
mey, June 6, 1893, and they have three chil- 
dren, Charles F. Jr., Dorothy, and Francis 
Wreaks. 

Wreaks, Hugh T. (M.E., '90), was with 
the Westinghouse Electric & Manufacturing 
Co., New York, 1890-1902; and has been 
with the Exeter Machine Works, New York, 
from 1902 to date. 

Wreaks, William B. (M.E., '89), was with 
the United States Electric Light Co., Newark, 
N. J., 1889-92, in the electrical laboratory, 
1889-91, and assistant to the general superin- 
tendent, 1891-92; and has been with the 
Westinghouse Electric & Manufacturing Co., 



Pittsburg, Pa., from 1892 to date, in the 
engineering department, 1892-95 ; salesman 
and engineer in the New York office, 1895- 
1900; in a like capacity, in charge of business 
in the Maritime Provinces of Canada and 
Newfoundland, in the New York export 
office, 1900-02; and in a similar position in 
the Detroit office from 1902 to date. 

Wright, Ernest Neall (M.E., '83), was born 
in Germantown, Pa., March 27, 1861 ; son of 
James A. and Mary Cook Wright. He was a 
student at the Technische Hochschule, Han- 
nover, Germany, 1883-86, and at the Uni- 
versity of Gottingen, Gottingen, Germany, 
1886-87. Upon his return to the United 
States he entered the employ of the Spiral 
Weld Tube Co., East Orange, N. J., remain- 
ing with the company about a year; after 
which he went with Westinghouse, Church, 
Kerr, & Co., New York and Boston, 1889-93. 
He was located at Monticello, Fla., 1893- 
1901, and has been at Boston, Mass., since the 
latter year, being now en_gaged as consulting 
engineer. He is a member of the American 
Society of Mechanical Engineers. 

Wright, Harry (M.E., '98), has been in 
the employ of Zindars & Hunt, and the H. 
Krantz Manufacturing- Co;, Brooklyn. 

Wuichet, Edward (M.E., '91), was iaorn in 
Dayton, O., in 1868. He was vice-president 
of the Miami Valley Boiler Co., Dayton, O., 
1892-96; salesman with Alexander Gebhart 
& Co., lumber-dealers, Dayton, 1897-1903 ; 
and has been treasurer and manager of the 
Union Storage Co., Dayton, from 1903 to 
date. He is a member of the Chi Phi frater- 
nity, and of the Scotti.sh Rite Masonic Order. 

Mr. Wuichet is the son of Eugene and 
Blanche (La Rose) Wuichet, of Swiss and 
French extraction. He married Martha 
Alice Rench, June 14, 1894, and they have 
one child, Joseph Edward Wuichet. 

Wurts, Alexander Jay (M.E., '84), was 
born in Carbondale, Pa., March 3, 1862. He 
was brought up in France until ten years of 
age, and he graduated from Yale in 1883, and 
from Stevens Institute in 1884. He studied 
electricity under Prof. Kohlrausch in Ger- 
many, 1884-86; was apprentice with the 
United States Electric Lighting Co., Newark, 



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N. J., 1886; electrician with the Julian Stor- 
age Battery Co., Camden, N. J., 1886-87; and 




A. J. WURTS 

has been on the technical staff of the West- 
inghonse Electric & Manufacturing Co. from 
1887 to date. His work has been along the 
lines of original research and design. While 
with the latter company he has taken out 
about 100 patents. During the four years 
following 1897 he directed the development 
of the Nernst lamp in America up to a satis- 
factory commercial basis. He was then ap- 
pointed manager of the Nernst Lamp Co. 
organized by Mr. Westinghouse. He has 
lectured on this lamp before technical audi- 
ences in many cities in the United States, 
and his lectures have been widely published 
in the technical press. He has also lectured 
before the Art Society of Boston, at Yale, 
Columbia, and Cornell universities, and the 
Franklin and Armour institutes. In 1904 
he joined the staff of the Carnegie Listitute. 
Pittsburg, retaining his interests with the 
Westinghouse Electric & Manufacturing Co. 
He is the author of the following papers : 

"Lightning Arresters and the Discovery of 
Non- Arcing Metals," read before the American 
Institute of Electrical Engineers, 1892. 

The Tank Lightning- Arrester as an Adjunct 
for Street Railway Power Houses." Electrical 
Engineer, 1892. 

"A Photographic Stud_v of Non- Arcing Met- 
als." Ibid., i8q2. 



"The Commercial Success of Non- Arcing 
Metal Lightning- Arresters." Ibid., 1893. 

"Some Experiments with Disruptive Dis- 
charges." Ibid., 1893. 

"Notes on Lightning Protection." Ibid., 1893. 

" Lightning- Arresters in the United States." 
Electrician (London), 1893. 

' ' Discriminating Lightning- Arresters and Re- 
cent Progress in Means for Protection Against 
Lightning," read before the American Institute 
of Electrical Engineers, 1894. 

" Lightning- Arresters and Why They Some- 
times Fail." Journal of the Franklin Institute, 
1895. 

"A Method of Increasing the Striking Dis- 
tance of a Given Electro-Motive Force." Elec- 
trical Engineer, 1896. 

"Protection Against Lightning for High 
Potential Power Transmission Circuits." Ibid., 
1896. 

"The Current Strength of a Lightning 
Stroke." Ibid., 1898. 

"Experiments with Electrical Lightning 
Arresters." Engineer, 1898. 

"The Development of the Nernst Lamp in 
America," read before the American Institute 
of Electrical Engineers at the Pan-American 
meeting, 1901, and printed in numerous techni- 
cal journals. 

He is a member of the American Institute 
of Electrical Engineers; the American Philo- 
sophical Society, the American Association 
for the Advancement of Science ; and of the 
Academy of Science and Arts, Pittsburg. 

Mr. Wurts is the son of Charles Pemberton 
and Laura Wurts, and on his mother's side 
is a direct descendant of John Jay, first chief 
justice of the Supreme Court of the United 
States. He married Jeanie Lowrie Childs, 
July 30, 1890, and they have two children, 
Thomas Howe Childs and Laura Jay Wurts. 

Wyant, Robert E. (M.E., '89), was in the 
employ of the Derby Gas Co., Derby, Conn., 
1889-94; superintendent of the Colorado 
Springs Gas & Electric Co., Colorado Springs, 
Colo., 1894-96; and has been superintendent 
of the electrical department of the Derby Gas 
Co., Derby, Conn., from 1896 to date. 

Wynkoop, Hubert Schuurman (M.E., '88), 
was born in Yonkers, N. Y., September 20, 
1866. He was employed in the engineering 
department of the Leonard & Izard Co., Min- 
neapolis and Chicago, 1888-89; i" the engi- 
neering department of the United Edison 



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Manufacturing Co., Chicago, 1889-90; was 
assistant district engineer with the Edison 
General Electric Co., Chicago, San Fran- 
cisco, and Atlanta, 1890-92; railway expert 
for the General Electric Co., Rome, Ga., 
1892-93 ; technical expert and treasurer of 
the Electrical & Mechanical Engineering Co., 
New York, 1894-95 ; gas and electric inspec- 
tor, 1895-96, and assistant in charge of elec- 
tricity and gas in the Bureau of Construction 
and Repairs, 1896-97 in the Department of 
City Works, Brooklyn, N. Y. ; inspector in 
charge of the Bureau .of Electricity and Gas, 
Department of Public Buildings, Lighting, 
and Supplies, Borough of Brooklyn, 1898- 
1902; and has been electrical engineer in the 
Department of Water Supply, Gas, and Elec- 
tricity, Brooklyn, from 1902 to date. 

From 1888 until 1895 his work covered 
principally the designing and erecting of 
electrical plants for lighting, railways, power- 
transmission, etc. In 1894, in conjunction 
with Mr. J. H. Vail, formerly assistant engi- 
neer-in-chief of the Edison General Electric 
Co., he wrote a paper on " The Use of the 
Booster on Electric Railway Circuits," which 
was read at the thirteenth annual convention 
of the American Street Railway Association. 
Although, at the time, the suggestions made 
in this paper were deemed impractical, the 
" booster " has since come into general use 
in railway power houses. 

From time to time he has contributed arti- 
cles to the technical journals, among which 
may be mentioned : " Electrolysis " in Apple- 
ton's Popular Science Monthly, 1900; " Elec- 
tric Fire Risks," Cassicr's M.agazinc, 1900; 
" Gas Distribution as Viewed by an Electri- 
cal Man," American Gas Light Journal, 1901. 
In 1899 he read a paper before the American 
Society of Municipal Improvements on 
" Electrolysis from the Standpoint of the 
Municipal Electrician." 

He is a corporate member of the Brooklyn 
Engineers' Club, and a charter member of the 
Municipal Engineers of the City of New- 
York. He is at present commissary (cap- 
tain) of the 23d Regiment of Infantry Na- 
tional Guard of the State of New York, and 
was formerly a member of the Theta Xi fra- 
ternity. 

Mr. Wynkoop is the son of Richard and 
Lydia Belcher (Strang) Wynkoop, and is 
descended from Cornelius Wynkoop, who 



settled at Albany, N. Y., in 1657. He mar- 
ried Sarah Matilda Zabriskie, June 24, 1890. 
and they have three children, Marjorie Za- 
briskie, Natalie, and Ruth Wynkoop. 

Yatnada, Yokichi (M.E., '75), was located 
in Japan, 1876-78; Professor of Engineering, 
Veddo, Japan, 1878-79; in the Imperial Col- 
lege of Engineering, Tokio, Japan, 1879-92 ; 
and was connected with the Akabane Engi- 
neering Works, Tokio, 1884-92, in which lat- 
ter year he died. 

Yeaton, Samuel Charles (M.E., '99), was 
born in Brooklyn, N. Y., April 14, 1874. He 




S. C. Yeaton 

attended Norwich University Military Acad- 
emy, Northfield, Vt., for two years and a half. 
He was with the Edison Electric Illuminat- 
ing Co., New York, 1899; with the Gas 
Engine Power Co., Morris Heights, N. Y., 
1899-1900; with the De Dion Bouton Motor- 
ette Co., Brooklyn, N. Y., 1900 ; and general 
agent for the same company at Boston and 
Newport in the same year. He graduated 
with the degree of Bachelor of Laws, with 
honors, from the New York Law School in 
1903, and was admitted to the New York Bar. 
He is a member of the Theta Chi fraternity. 
Mr. Yeaton is the son of Samuel Cobb and 
Alma H. (Sylvester) Yeaton. He married 
Estelle Babcock, August 8, 1899, and they 
have one child, Abbie Alma Yeaton. 



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Yereance, William Burnet (M.E., '88), was 
born in New York city November 21, 1866. 
He has been employed in the Dickson Loco- 
motive Works; as inspector of coal and lo- 
comotives for th^New York Central & Hud- 
son River Railroad ; in the Altoona shops of 
the Pennsylvania Railroad ; Instructor in 
Engineering at New York University coinci- 
dently with private engineering" practice ; 
assistant to the general manager of the 
Brooklyn Elevated Railroad ; secretary to the 
general superintendent of the West Shore 
Railroad ; executive secretary to the vice- 
president and general manager of the West 
Shore Railroad, vice-president of the Cleve- 
land, Cincinnati, Chicago, & St. Louis Rail- 
road, and general manager of the Beech 
Creek Railroad; assisted in the reorganiza- 
tion of the Morris & Essex Division of the 
Lackawanna Railroad; assistant for three 
years to the general superintendent of the 
Brookl3'n Heights Railroad ; and at present 
is engaged with Ford, Bacon, & Davis, con- 
sulting engineers. 

In 1897, in conjunction with Mr. C. M. 
Large, he made a committee report to the 
Association of Railway Bridges and Build- 
ings on the subject of " Railway Ice Houses." 
The report was printed in full in Ice and Re- 
frigeration, 1898. He is an associate mem- 
ber of the American Society of Civil En- 
gineers ; and a member of the American 
Society of Mechanical Engineers; of the 
Association of Railway Superintendents of 
Bridges and Buildings ; and of the Trans- 
portation and New York Railroad clubs. 

Mr. Yereance married Annie' E. Scribner, 
May 16, 1889, and they have five children, 
Alexander W., Jeannie O., Anita L., Edith 
De G., and Virginia Yereance. 

Youngblood, Frank James (M.E., '02), was 
born in Morristown, N. J., March 14, 1880; 
son of James Cooper and Mary Frances 
(Lawrence) Youngblood. He is in the em- 
ploy of the British Westinghouse Electric 
& Manufacturing Co., Manchester, England. 
He is a member of the Delta Tau Delta and 
Tau Beta Pi fraternities. 

Younglove, Roy Sylvander (M.E., '01), was 
born in Chicago, 111., October 30, 1878; son of 
Ira S. and Lizzie (Quirk) Younglove. Sam- 
uel Younglove, his first American ancestor, 



came to this country from England in 1635. 
His mother's family are of Manx descent. 




R. S. Younglove 

He was employed in the South Works of 
the Illinois Steel Co., South Chicago, 111., 
1901-04, at first in the mechanical engineer- 
ing department and then in the plate mill. 
He is now with the American Radiator Co. 
Lie is a member of the Chi Phi fraternity. 




Robert Zahner 

Zahner, Robert (M.E., '78), after graduat- 
ing, fitted himself for the practice of law, and 



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has since followed this line of work at Cin- 
cinnati, O., and Atlanta, Ga., in which latter 
city he is now attorney and counsellor-at-law. 




L. B. Zusi 

Zimmermann, Hans Christian (M.E., '95), 
was born in Brooklyn, N. Y., April 2, 1873. 
He was with West- 
inghouse, Church, 
Kerr, & Co., New 
York, 1895-98. Dur- 
ing the war with 
Spain he served as 
a member of the 2d 
Battalion of the 
New York Naval 
Reserve on the 
U.S.S. " Sylvia." He 
was with the Edison 
Electric Illuminat- 
ing Co., of Brook- 
lyn, N. Y., 1898- 
190 1 ; and has been 
with the United 
Coke & Gas Co., 
from 1 90 1 to date. 

Mr. Zimmermann is the son of William 
and Louise Zimmermann. He married Marie 
Eloise Trott, April 7, 1900. 

Zimmermann, William F. (M.E., '76), was 
born in Snug Harbor, Staten Island, N. Y., 
July 24, 1857. He was engaged in the shops 
of the Rogers Locomotive Works, Paterson, 



N. J., 1876-77 ; in the Mechanical Laboratory 
of Stevens Institute, 1877; assistant master 
mechanic of the New York & Oswego Mid- 
land Railroad, Middletown, N. Y., 1877-79; 
and subsequently was employed in the Pitts- 
burg Car Wheel Works and with the firm of 
Witherow & Gordon, blast-furnace engineers, 
at Pittsburg, Pa. In 1882 he organized and 
started, in connection with Mr. William Kent, 
the Pittsburg Testing Laboratory, and in 
connection with this a bureau of inspection. 
While connected with the Laboratory he was 
appointed sales manager for the Pittsburg 
district of the Babcock & Wilcox Boiler Co. 
It was while connected with this company 
that he advocated (and eventually sold to 
the Lucy Furnace Co.) water-tube boilers for 
blast furnaces, and introduced this class of 
boiler into blast-furnace practice. In 1885 
he became the manager of the Pittsburg 
office of Wcstinghouse, Church, Kerr, & Co., 
contracting engineers, and it was while con- 
nected with this firm that he contracted for 
and built the first alternating-current plant 
in this country, at Greensburg, Pa. His 
connection with this firm brought him into' 
contact witli the Wcstinghouse interests, and 




Interiob of Power Ho 



. Lawrence Power Co., Massena, N. Y. 
William F. Zimmermann 

from that time until 1899 he was connected 
therewith, having been successively engineer 
of the Fuel, Gas, & Electric Engineering Co., 
general superintendent of the United States 
Electric Light & Power Co., and assistant 
general manager of the Westinghouse Elec- 
tric & Manufacturing Co. In 1899 he became 
vice-president and general manager of the 



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St. Lawrence Power Co., a company develop- 
ing a large power in the northern part of 
New York State. He resigned from this 
company in I902,*and the following year ac- 
cepted his present position with the West- 
inghouse Electric & Manufacturing Co. 
He is a member of the American Society 
of Mechanical Engineers; the Engineers' 
Club of New York; the Lawyers' Club; 
the Theta Xi Club, and the Theta Xi fra- 
ternity. 

Mr. Zimmermann is the son of Charles 
Frazier and Susan B. (Johnston) Zimmer- 
mann. He married Stephanie Carr Lake in 



May, 1881, and they have two children, 
Howard D. and Eleanor J. Zimmermann. 

Zusi, Leonard Borschneck (M.E., '02), was 
born in Newark, N. J., January 8, 1881 ; son 
of Edward and Celestine (Borschneck) Zusi. 
His grandparents on both sides were Alsa- 
tians. He has been with the American Ra- 
diator Co., Chicago, 111., as draughtsman ; has 
engaged in experimental and investigation 
work in Newark, N. J. ; and is now in the 
foundry business with Edward Zusi, Newark, 
N. J. He is a member of the Tau Beta Pi 
fraternity. 



ASSOCIATE MEMBERS OF THE ALUMNI ASSOCIATION 



The biog-raphical records under this heading are of former students who, 
while in good standing, voluntarily severed their connection with the Listitute at 
some period previous to the graduation exercises of their respective classes. In 
each case the subject has done creditable work in his chosen profession, and has 
retained an active interest in the affairs of his Alma Mater through associate mem- 
bership in the Alumni Association. 



Ball, Bert Charles, was born in Grand Is- 
land, N. Y., June 22, 1870; son of Frank H. 




and Katharine B. Ball. He studied with the 
Class of 1895 at Stevens. He was chief engi- 



neer with the Ball & Wood Co., Elizabeth, 
N. J., 1891-97; passed assistant engineer in 
the United States Navy, 1898; consulting en- 
gineer in the firm of Ball & Corbett, New 
York, 1899-1901 ; and is now secretary and 
chief engineer of the Willamette Iron & Steel 
Works, Portland, Ore. He is a member of 
the American Society of Mechanical Engi- 
neers; the American Society of Naval En- 
gineers ; the Seawanhaka Corinthian Yacht 
Club ; and of the Beta Theta Pi fraternity. 

Dickinson, Gordon K. (M.D.), was born in 
Jersey City, N. J., December 14, 1855. He 
was the first to pass the entrance examination 
for the Class of 1875. He took two years 
of the regular course of study at the Insti- 
tute and one year of special preparation 
for a position on the Transit of Venus Expe- 
dition, laying a foundation at the same time 
for the study of medicine. He entered the 
Bellevue Medical School, New York, in 1874, 
graduated in 1877, took a postgraduate 
course, and entered active practice in 1879. 
He is a member of the American Academy of 
Science ; the American Medical Association ; 



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the New York Academy of Medicine; is 
surgeon of the City and the Christ hospitals, 




G. K. Dickinson 

of Jersey City, and consultant at Bavonne 
(N. J.) Hospital. 

Dr. Dickinson is the son of William L. and 
Celia (Goss) Dickinson. He married Louise 
Waterman in June, 1888, and they have five 
children, Louise, Claire, Ruth, Marie, and 
Celia Dickinson. 

Parsell, Henry Van Arsdale, w^as born in 
Newburgh, N. Y., June 3, 1868. At an early 
age he engaged in experimental and mechan- 
ical work in his own home, where he had 
unusual facilities in the way of engines, ma- 
chines, instruments of research, books of 
reference, etc, the collection of which was 
begun by his father and continued by him, 
until at the present time it is perhaps one of 
the most complete and valuable private in- 
stallations of its kind. 

In 1880 he began the study of electricity 
by making all the experiments given in Tyn- 
dall's " Lessons in Electricity." In the same 
year he entered M. W. Lyon's Collegiate In- 
stitute where he attended until 1885, during 
which period, in addition to his studies, he 
continued work in the shop at home in vari- 
ous electrical branches, such as telephony, 
electric gas-lighting, and other domestic ap- 
plications. In 1884 he began experiments 
with photographic apparatus, culminating in 



May, 1885, with a patent on a hand camera 
which was the forerunner of the leather- 
covered camera now in general use. In the 
latter year he entered the shop of the Stout- 
Meadowcroft Co., New York, makers of 
electric novelties and agents for miniature 
Edison lamps. While with this company he 
installed in the laboratory in his home a bat- 
tery of twenty-eight chromic acid primary 
cells capable of running eight i6-candle- 
power lamps of 24 volts each. After one 
year he replaced this plant with 14 cells of 
Gibson storage battery, charged by a dynamo 
and a Shipman steam engine. Later this 
steam engine was replaced by an Otto gas- 
engine of four horse-power. In 1887 the 
Stout-Meadowcroft Co. was succeeded by E. 
S. Greeley & Co., with whom he remained a 
short time while the latter firm was familiar- 
izing itself with the new line of goods. He 
then spent six months with" the Gibson Elec- 
tric Co., working on storage-battery con- 
struction. In 1888 he constructed and in- 
stalled a galvano-faradic apparatus operated 
on the iio-volt Edison current. This dis- 
placed a sixty-cell gravity battery and, so far 




H. V. A. Parsell 

as is known, was the first apparatus of this 
kind ever built and operated. 

He then prepared for Stevens Institute 
and entered in the fall of 1889 with the Class 
of 1893. In the spring of 1890, during his 
spare time, he was connected with the Edison 



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exhibit in the Lenox Lyceum where he in- 
stalled a model electric railway with auto- 
matic signals, also arranging a " Chamber of 
Illusions," and acting in an advisory capac- 
ity regarding effects of lighting in the 
main hall. In the spring of 1891 he installed 
at Schroon Lake in the Adirondacks, the 
first electric lighting plant to- use the Otto 
gasoline engine in this country. In 1905 this 
plant is still in successful use. Upon the 



During this time he was one of the early 
workers with the X rays, and he devised 
and built a new apparatus for dental cata- 
phoresis. In the fall of 1899 he formed, 
with Mr. Arthur J. Weed, the firm of Par- 
sell & Weed, for the construction of models 
for inventors and experimenters, and estab- 
lished the Franklin Model Shop in New York 
city for carrying on the work. The " Frank- 
lin Model Dynamo " designed and built by 




First Electric Plant in America Run by Otto Gasoline Engine 
H. V. A. Par sell 



completion of this latter installation he dis- 
continued his studies at Stevens Institute, 
and became associated with the New York 
agency for the Otto gas engine. 

In 1892 he entered the decorative and mini- 
ature lamp department of the Edison Lamp 
Co., at Harrison, N. ]., as shop superintend- 
ent, in which position he was engaged for 
two years in the devising and construction 
of various electrical effects, electric signs, 
automatic switches, etc. The next five years 
he spent in experimental and consulting work. 



this firm was awarded a diploma at the Pan- 
American Exposition in 1901. In addition 
to his connection with this firm he is presi- 
dent of the Baldwin Calculating Machine 
Co., and treasurer of the New Amsterdam 
Eye and Ear Hospital, both of New York; 
a director of the Norris-Peters Co., photo- 
lithographers, Washington, D. C. ; and a di- 
rector of the Taylor House Association, 
Schroon Lake, N. Y. 

Mr. Parsell has written, anonymously, ap- 
pendices to a well-known electrical dictionary 



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and to several smaller works, and in collabo- 
ration with Mr. A. J. Weed has written a 
book on " Gas Engine Construction." He is 
a past vice-president of the New York Elec- 
trical Society ; an associate member of the 
American Institute of Electrical Engineers ; 
a member of the International Electrical 
Congress, St. Louis, 1904; the American As- 
sociation for the Advancement of Science ; 
the American Museum of Natural History; 
the Municipal Art Society; the New York 
Botanical Gardens ; the Society of American 
Magicians, of which he is archivist ; the Al- 
dine Association ; and the Republican Club. 
He is a Royal Arch Mason, having attained 
the thirty-second degree of the Scottish Rite 
and the ninetieth degree of the Rite of Mem- 
phis ; and a member of Mecca Temple of the 
Mystic Shrine. 

Mr. Parsell is the son of Henry V. A. 
and Hannah H. (Peters) Parsell. He mar- 
ried Maud E. Collins, January 31, 1893. 

Streeter, Lafayette Pinkney, was born in 
Brooklyn, N. Y., December 25, 1875. He 




L. P. Streeter 

studied for three years with the Class of 1900, 
and received a certificate from the Institute, 
issued June 11, 1900, signed by the late Pres- 
ident Morton, certifying to his successful 



completion of the special course pursued. He 
entered the employ of the New York Air 
Brake Co., at Watertown, N. Y., as assistant 
to the mechanical engineer, on January i, 
1901 ; was appointed first assistant mechani- 
cal engineer of the company in June, 1902, 
and was the acting head of the mechanical 
engineer's department for a period of about 
three months during that summer. On Janu- 
ary I, 1903, upon the reorganization of the 
mechanical engineer's department, he was 
appointed to the newly created position of en- 
gineer of tests, having charge of the physical 
laboratory and the testing of purchased mate- 
rial, as well as of special tests of machinery 
and of brake apparatus in general. He is an 
associate member of the American Society 
of Mechanical Engineers ; a member of the 
American Society for Testing Materials ; 
and a member of the Sigtna Nu fraternity. 

Wilcox, Frank, was born in Pittsburg, Pa., 
May 26, 1854. He spent three years at Ste- 
vens, studying with the Class of 1880. 
He then became assistant master mechanic 
in the shops of the Pittsburg, Fort Wayne, 
& Chicago Railroad, at Fort Wayne, Ind., 
1880-81; was engaged in the machine and 
foundry business in Pittsburg, building hy- 
draulic and Bessemer mill machinery, 1881- 
83 ; mining and smelting lead in Montana, 
1883-84; engineer of the Philadelphia Co., 
Pittsburg, producers and carriers of naturai 
gas, 1884-90; superintendent of the Pittsburg 
Water Department under E. M. Bigelow, 
Director of the Department of Public Works, 
1890-92; and has been engineer and director 
of the T. A. Gillespie Co., being engaged in 
large contract work, more especially the 
building of waterworks reservoirs and steel 
pipe-line work, from 1892 to date. He is a 
member of the American Society of Civil 
Engineers ; and the Engineers' Society of 
Western Pennsylvania. 

Mr. Wilcox is the son of Lemuel and Eliza 
Fleming Wilcox, and is descended from John 
Wilcox, who landed in Connecticut from 
Boston, England, in 1628. He married Annie 
Brett, of Brookline, Mass., November, 1886, 
and they have one child living, Winthrop 
Wilcox. 



THE CLASSES OF 1903 AND 1904 

When it was decided to change this work from a Twenty-fifth Anniver- 
sary Vokinie to a Memorial to the late President Morton, it was planned, as heing 
the most appropriate arrangement, to include in the regular order of the Alumni 
biographies the members of all classes clown through the Class of 1902, which 
was the last to complete its course under him. 

The Classes of 1903 and 1904 form a peculiarly fitting link between the past 
and the present administrations, the former completing the major part of its work 
under Dr. Morton, and the latter its major part under Dr. Humphreys. The 
transition from the old regime to the new is strikingly shown in the two Class 
photographs on pages 636 and 640 respectively. In the former, the Class of 
1903, taken in its graduating year, shows the members in civilian dress, in which 
the Graduates and the Faculty had always appeared on Commencement Day, 
adapting themselves, of course, to the conventions of the hour, the exercises being 
usually held in the evening. On page 640 will be found the photograph of the 
Class of 1904, with the Trustees, Faculty, Guests, and Members of the Class robed 
in the traditional cap and gown, which were adopted by the Institute in the spring 
of 1904. This photograph was taken immediately after the graduating exercises 
on the morning of the i6th of June of that year. 

In thus presenting the Classes of 1903 and 1904 it is deemed advisable, 
in view of the recent graduation of the members, not to attempt complete bio- 
graphical sketches, but rather to give merely the present employment. These 
two Classes will furnish a fitting starting-point for a future historian. 



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MEMBERS OF THE CLASS 

SCHMIDT MURPHY BACKUS JALIEN 

MONTALVO MERTLEMEYER SQUIEE JOHNSON QUIGG KIEUNAN 

SCHUET2 RIVERO WRIGHT BENNITT KRANTZ 

HAGERTY CHADWELL FURMAN DREYFUS MAPLESDEN 

WHITEHOUSE VAN HOUTEN RABBE LAFETRA 

MARVIN SMITH CHEWNING ROESER 

J. D. ALDEN PRATT BURKE LOTT 

BALDWIN FREEMAN J. W. ALDEN BRADLEY NORTH BUNJE CABRERA 

WOODBURY STRING VAN ETTEN BRAY CHAMBERLAIN 

BUTLER ASSMANN 

DUER PRAHL ALLEN CLARK 



PROFESSORS FURMAN, BRISTOL, GEYER, 



Sitting 

VEBB, KEOEH, 



FACULTY 
It Row— From Left to Right 



cond Row — From Right to Left 



THE ALUMNI 

THE CLASS OF 1903 

Graduated zuith the Degree of Mechanical Engineer^ June 18, ipoj 



^37 



Alden, J. Douglas, with the Connecticut Chamberlain, Harry T., with the Erie Rail- 

Railway & Lighting- Co., South Norwalk, road, Meadville, Pa. 
Conn. 

Chewning, Walter L., cadet engineer in 

Alden, James W., with the Public Service the gas department of the Public Service 

Corporation of New Jersey, Jersey City. Corporation of New Jersey, stationed at 

Newark, N. J. 

Clark, Howard B., with the A. D. Gran- 
ger Co., contracting engineers, New York. 

Dreyfus, Edwin D., with the Allis-Chal- 
mers Co., Milwaukee, Wis. 



Allen, Miner W., with the ConsoHdated 
Gas Co., New York. 

Assmann, Frederick P., secretary and treas- 
urer of the Continental Can Co., Syracuse, 
N. Y. 



Backus, Russell G., with the Worthington 
Steam Pump Co., Harrison, N. J. 

Baldwin, Raymond S., with James Stew- 
art & Co., contractors, Baltimore, Md. 

Bennitt, George E., special apprentice at 
the Baldwin Locomotive Works, Philadel- 
phia, Pa. 

Bradley, Chester E., inspector with the 
Astoria Light, Heat, & Power Co., Astoria, 
Long Island, N. Y. 



Duer, John Van Buren, with the Gen- 
eral Electric Co., Schenectady, N. Y. 

Freeman, Frederick C, constructing engi- 
neer in the employ of the United Gas Im- 
pro\'ement Co., Philadelphia, Pa. 

Furman, George B., with L. O. Koven & 
Bro., manufacturers of boilers and heavy 
sheet-iron specialties, Jersey City, N. J. 

Hagerty, Walter W., with the New Am- 
sterdam Gas Co., New York. 



Bray, William J., with the Consolidated 
Gas Co., Baltimore, Md. 

Bunje, Charles, Jr., in the street railway 
department of the Public Service Corpora- 
tion of New Jersey, Hoboken, N. J. 

Burke, Robert E., with the Rhode Island 
Co., Providence, R. I. 

Butler, Joseph F., cadet engineer with 
the United Gas Improvement Co., stationed 



Jalien, John J., special apprentice at the 
Baldwin Locomotive Works, Philadelphia, Pa. 

Johnson, Harry W., Instructor in Me- 
chanical Drawing and Designing at Stevens 
Institute of Technology, Hoboken, N. J. 

Kiernan, Peter H., assistant manager of 
the Jersey City district of the New York & 
New Jersey Telephone Co. 

Krantz, K. Theodor, with the Alphons 



at the Merion & Radnor Gas & Electric Co.'s Custodis Chimney Construction Co., Phil- 
works, Ardmore, Pa. adelphia, Pa. 

Cabrera, Frederick, practising as a con- La Fetra, Harry L., transitman, in the 

suiting and contracting engineer, Managua, Topographical Bureau, Borough of Queens, 

Nicaragua, C. A. New York. 

Chadwell, George H., assistant engineer Lott, Samuel H., Instructor in Mechan- 
with the Safety Car Heating & Lighting ical Drawing at Stevens Institute of Tech- 
Co., Jersey City, N. J. nology, Hoboken, N. J. 



638 THE STEVENS INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY 

THE CLASS OF 1903— Continued 

Graduated with the Degree of Mechanical Engineer, June 18, ipo^ 



Mapelsden, Harold H., in the turbine-test- 
ing department of the General Electric Co., 
Schenectady, N. Y. 

Marvin, Richard H., at the General Elec- 
tric Co.'s Lamp Works, Harrison, N. J. 

Mertelmeyer, Gisbert C. A., draughtsman 
with the New York Edison Co., New York. 

Murphy, Benjamin S., special apprentice 
with the Pennsylvania Railroad Co., Altoona, 
Pa. 

North, Gilbert, electrical engineer of in- 
struments, electrical engineering department 
of the British Westinghouse Electric & 
Manufacturing Co., Ltd., Trafford Park, 
Manchester, England. 

Prahl, Frederick A., with Walter Kidde, 
M.E., New York. Mr. Prahl married Marie 
Gilbert, May 18, 1904. 

Pratt, Auguste G., in the engineering de- 
partment of the Babcock & Wilcox Co., 
Bayonne, N. J. Mr. Pratt married Ruth 
Nesmith of Brooklyn, January 5, 1905. 

Quigg, Edward A., at the North Works 
of the Illinois Steel Co., Chicago, 111. 

Rabbe, Frederick, Jr., with Jacob A. Zim- 
mermann, general contractor. New York. 

Rivero, Ricardo J., assistant manager of 
the cotton mill of the firm of V. Rivero's 
Successors, Monterey, Mexico. Mr. Rivero 
married Blanche M. Kenyon, of Hoboken, 
N. J., October 12, 1904. 

Roeser, Charles J., cadet engineer in the 
employ of the Hudson County gas depart- 



ment of the Public Service Corporation of 
New Jersey, Jersey City, N. J. 

Schmidt, Arthur H., was erecting engi- 
neer and draughtsman with the Hayward 
Co., New York. He died December 3, 1904. 

Schuetz, Frederick F. (A.M., Columbia 
University, 1904), solicitor of United States 
and foreign patents. New York. 

Smith, Elmer, employed at the Provi- 
dence Engineering Works, Providence, R. I. 

Squier, Harold N., cadet engineer with the 
United Gas Improvement Co., Philadelphia. 

String, Joseph S., Jr., assistant engineer 
of construction, Astoria Light, Heat, & 
Power Co., Astoria, Long Island, N. Y. 

Van Etten, Herbert B., in the engineer- 
ing department of the New York & New 
Jersey Telephone Co., New York. 

Van Houten, Charles M., assistant * engi- 
neer in the Topographical Bureau, Borough 
of Queens, New York ; a city surveyor. New 
York; and, as holder of the Gould scholar- 
ship. New York University, taking a post- 
graduate course in the School of Pedagogy. 

Whitehouse, Louis C, assistant engineer 
with the Pintsch Compressing Co., New 
York. 

Woodbury, Daniel C, in the electrical de- 
partment of the New York Central & Hud- 
son River Railroad, New York. 

Wright,. Donald A., in the estimating de- 
partment of the North Works, Illinois Steel 
Co., Chicago, 111. 



THE ALUMNI 

^ THE CLASS OF 1904 

Graduated luitli the Degree of Mechanical Engineer, lime 16, ipo^ 



Backus, Richard A., with Post & McCord, 
Inc., steel constructors, New York. 



Del Rio, C, engaged in engineering worl- 
at Talsasco, Mexico. 



Barker, Russell D., with the New York 
& New Jersey Telephone Co., Brooklyn, 
N. Y. " ' 

Bates, Charles J., Jr., employed by the 
New York Edison Co., New York. 

Billings, Andrew W., assistant heating and 
lighting engineer for the Board of State 
Armory Commissioners, State Architect's 
Office, Albany, N. Y. 

Blaisdell, Charles O., with M. W. Kellogg 
& Co., engineers and contractors. New 
York. 

Brachvogel, John K., with Munn & Co., 
patent attorneys, and proprietors of the 
" Scientific American," New York. 

Buckenham, Archibald G., with the New 
York Mutual Gas Light Co., New York. 

Bunch, David S., superintendent of the 
Mill Riyer Electric Light Co., Williams- 
burg, Mass. 

Calkins, George N., assistant to the gen- 
eral manager of the Wyoming Coal Mining 
Co., Monarch, Wyo. 

Carpender, Moncure C, taking the post- 
graduate course in electrical engineering, 
Cornell University, Lhaca, N. Y. 

Carr, Walter A., member of the Neptune 
Laundry Co., Philadelphia, Pa. 

Carroll, Morris B., in the turbine depart- 
ment of the General Electric Co., Schenec- 
tady, N. Y. 

Cazin, O. K., employed with R. H. Soule, 
mechanical engineer. New York. 

Church, Herbert B., employed by the Con- 
solidated Safety Pin Co., Bloomfield, N. J. 



Dennis, Henry P., with the Bristol Co., 
Waterbury, Conn. 

Dunlop, Charles W., with the Pintsch Com- 
pressing Co., New York. 

Fry, L. B., with Humphreys & Glasgow, 
water-gas engineers, London, England. 

Garza, J. M., taking a course in mining 
engineering at the Colorado School of 
Mines, Golden, Colo. 

Gaylord, Harold B., employed in the crane 
department of the Niles-Bement-Pond Co., 
Philadelphia, Pa. 

Greve, Edgar E., taking a course in min- 
ing engineering at the Colorado School of 
Mines, Golden, Colo. 

Guernsey, Ralph B., with Westinghouse, 
Church, Kerr, & Co., New York. 

Hayes, William G., with the Illinois Steel 
Co., Joliet, 111. 

Hedden, Clarence Earle, teaching physics, 
chemistry, and drawing in the Caldwell 
(N. J.) High School. 

Hedden, Viner J., with V. J. Hedden & 
Sons Co., contractors, Newark, N. J. 

Herb, Arthur, with J. Schwarzwalder & 
Sons, New York. 

Hollins, George G., in the department of 
tests of the General Electric Co., Schenec- 
tady, N. Y. 

Hubert, Philip A., with Post & McCord, 
Inc., steel constructors. New York. 

Ingham, William G., foreman with the 
Warren Foundry, Pipe, & Machine Co., 
Phillipsburg, N. J. 




MEMBERS OF THE CLASS 



BLAISDELL SCHROEDER PROUT 


VANDERBEEK 


PRATT NEEFUS 


WARFIELD 


SCHAUB PATTERSON H 


JBERT WESTERVEI.T 


PENNY PEARCE PAGE 


ZUSI HOI.LINS ZIMMERMANN 


STAPLES MOUNT 


WILLIS V. J. HEDDEN 


JACOBUS JIYLroS 


JOHNSON 


LEDDELL KOESTER LANE GAP 


ZA 


GREVE HERB DENNIS 


GAYLORD GUERNSEY 


DUNLOP 


HAYES FRYE CHURCH 


INGHAM 


CARROLL BARKER 


DELEIO CAZIN BUCKENHAM 


BILLINGS BATES 


CARPENDER BUNCH BRACK 


'OGEL BACKUS 


CARR CALKINS 





TRUSTEES, FACULTY AND INVITED GUESTS 
Sitting in Front Row— From Left to Right 

PRESIDENT S. B. DOD, OF THE BOARD OF TRUSTEES; PRESIDENT A. C. HUMPHREYS; MR. WALTER C. KERR, WHO DELIVERED THE ADDRESS 

TO THE GRADUATING CLASS; MR. EDWARD WESTON, WHO RECEIVED THE HONORARY . DEGREE OF DOCTOR OF SCIENCE; REV. EDWARD 

wall; COL. E. A. STEVENS, TRUSTEE; REV. J. CLAYTON MITCHELL; MR. A. R. WOLFF, TRUSTEE; COL. GEORGE HARVEY, TRUSTEE; 

MR.' W. C. POST, ALUMNI TRUSTEE; PROF. C. W. MAC CORD; PROF. C. F. KROEH; PROF. W. E. CEYER; AND PROF. J. B. WEBB 



Standing in Second Rov 



Right 



Standing in Third Row— From Right to Left 

;PAGE, SHOUDY, MARTIN, AND JOHNSON 



» THE ALUMNI 

THE CLASS OF 1904— Continued 

Graduated zvith the Degree of Mechanical Engineer, June 16, 1904 



641 



Jacobus, Robert F., engaged in special ex- 
perimental work at Stevens Institute. 

Johnson, Joseph E., in the engineering 
department of the General Fire Extinguisher 
Co., Providence, R. I. 

Koester, Herman, with the Bliss Machine 
Co., manufacturers of power presses, Brook- 
lyn, N. Y. 

Lane, Harold B., in the steam turbine de- 
partment of the General Electric Co., Sche- 
nectady, N. Y. 

Leddell, William A., employed by the Power 
Specialty Co., New York. 

Mount, Ralph H., with the New York & 
New Jersey Telephone Co.. Brooklyn, N. Y. 

Mylius, R. W., in the gas-engine depart- 
ment of the National Meter Co., Brooklyn, 
N. Y. 

Neefus, Harold, V. H., with James Stew- 
art & Co., general contractors and engi- 
neers. New York. 

Page, J. D., with the Worcester Salt Co., 
Silver Springs, N. Y. 

Patterson, Warren P., mine wireman for 
the Gypsey Mine of the Fairmount Coal Co., 
Gypsey, W. Va. 

Paulson, William E., with the consolidated 
Gas Co., New York. 

Pearce, W. H., Graham Court, New York. 

Penney, Rupert L., with the • Winchester 
Repeating Arms Co., New Haven, Conn. 



Pratt, Harlan A., with the Westinghouse 
Electric & Manufacturing Co., New York. 

Prout, Henry B., in the steam turbine de- 
partment of the Westinghouse Machine Co., 
Pittsburg, Pa. 

Schaub, Albert H., with the Buffalo Forge 
Co., New York. 

Schroeder, August E., engineering appren- 
tice with the Westinghouse Electric & Manu- 
facturing Co., Pittsburg, Pa. 

Staples, William O., with the Rapid Transit 
Subway Construction Co., New York. 

Suhr, Curt, assistant superintendent. Bay- 
way Refining Co., Elizabeth, N. J. 

Vanderbeek, J. Wilbur, with the Pierson- 
Sefton Co., manufacturers of horticultural 
implements, Jersey City, N. J. 

Warfield, Douglas R., with the Westing- 
house Electric & Manufacturing Co., East 
Pittsburg, Pa. 

Westervelt, H. Irwin, Instructor in Me- 
chanical Engineering, University of Cincin- 
nati, Cincinnati, Ohio. 

Willis, Charles M., cadet engineer with the 
Westchester Lighting Co., Mount Vernon, 

N. Y. 

Zimmermann, Howard D., in the gas-en- 
gine testing department of the Westinghouse 
Machine Co., Pittsburg, Pa. 

Zusi, Norman E., is in the employ of the 
New York & New Jersey Telephone Co., 
Newark, N. J. 




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